Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 21:40:51 +0000 (UTC) From: Warren Block <wblock@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r45294 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201407142140.s6ELepDO011320@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: wblock Date: Mon Jul 14 21:40:50 2014 New Revision: 45294 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/45294 Log: Reintroduce intentional informality in the last Python task. Other assorted fixes in the rest of the document, including spelling and titles. Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-04-2014-06.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-04-2014-06.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-04-2014-06.xml Mon Jul 14 18:14:52 2014 (r45293) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-04-2014-06.xml Mon Jul 14 21:40:50 2014 (r45294) @@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ </project> <project cat='proj'> - <title>RPC/NFS and CTL/iSCSI performance optimizations.</title> + <title>RPC/NFS and CTL/iSCSI Performance Optimizations</title> <contact> <person> @@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ </links> <body> - <p>The <tt>vt(4)</tt> (a.k.a. <tt>Newcons</tt>) project provides + <p>The <tt>vt(4)</tt> (aka <tt>Newcons</tt>) project provides a replacement for the legacy <tt>syscons</tt> system console. It brings a number of improvements, including better integration with graphics modes and broader character set @@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ </project> <project cat='proj'> - <title>QEMU bsd-user enabled ports building</title> + <title>QEMU <tt>bsd-user</tt>-Enabled Ports Building</title> <contact> <person> @@ -562,8 +562,8 @@ <task>More tasks can be found on the team's wiki page (see links).</task> - <task>To get involved, interested people can say hello on IRC - and let us know their areas of interest!</task> + <task>To get involved, come and say "hi" on IRC and let us know + what you are interested in!</task> </help> </project> @@ -661,26 +661,26 @@ <p>In May, a new release policy was published as well as being presented at the BSDCan developer conference by John Baldwin. - The idea is that each major release branch (eg. 10.x) is - guarranteed to be supported for at least five years, but - individual point releases on each branch (eg. 10.0-RELEASE) + The idea is that each major release branch (for example, 10.X) is + guaranteed to be supported for at least five years, but + individual point releases on each branch, like 10.0-RELEASE, will be issued at regular intervals and only the latest point release will be supported.</p> <p>Another significant change did not receive approval. When the change to the Bylaws reforming the core team election - process was put to the vote of all &os; developers it failed + process was put to the vote of all &os; developers, it failed to reach a quorum.</p> <p>June saw the culmination of a long running project to replace - the project's bug tracking system. As of 3rd June the &os; + the project's bug tracking system. As of June 3, the &os; project has switched to Bugzilla as its bug tracking system. - All of the history of Gnats PRs has been preserved, so there + All of the history of GNATS PRs has been preserved, so there is no need to re-open old tickets. Work is still going on to replicate some of the integration tweaks that had been applied - to Gnats, but all necessary functionality has been implemented + to GNATS, but all necessary functionality has been implemented and the project is already seeing the benefits of the new - capabilities bought by Bugzilla.</p> + capabilities brought by Bugzilla.</p> <p>An election to select core members for the next two year term of office took place during this period. We would like to @@ -688,7 +688,7 @@ The new core team provides continuity with previous core teams: about half are incumbents from the previous team, and several former core team members have returned after a hiatus. - core now includes two members of the &os; Foundation board and + Core now includes two members of the &os; Foundation board and one other Foundation staff member, aiding greater coordination at the top level of the project. At the same time the core-secretary role was passed on to a new volunteer.</p> @@ -703,7 +703,7 @@ </project> <project cat='misc'> - <title>&os; host support for OpenStack and OpenContrail.</title> + <title>&os; Host Support for OpenStack and OpenContrail</title> <contact> <person> @@ -909,7 +909,7 @@ </project> <project cat='kern'> - <title>SDIO driver</title> + <title>SDIO Driver</title> <contact> <person> @@ -945,8 +945,8 @@ <p>WiFi driver is able to load a firmware onto the card and initialize it. A rewrite of the MMC stack as a transport - layer for CAM framework is in progress. This will allow to - utilize the well-tested CAM locking model and debug features.</p> + layer for CAM framework is in progress. This will allow + utilization of the well-tested CAM locking model and debug features.</p> </body> <help> @@ -1016,8 +1016,8 @@ </project> <project cat='kern'> - <title>Running &os; as an application on top of Fiasco.OC - microkernel</title> + <title>Running &os; as an Application on Top of the Fiasco.OC + Microkernel</title> <contact> <person> @@ -1042,13 +1042,13 @@ provides a bare minimum of services to the applications running on top of it, unlike traditional kernels that incorporate a complex code like IP stacks and device drivers. - This allows to dramatically decrease the amount of code + This allows a dramatic decrease in the amount of code running in the privileged mode of the CPU, achieving higher security while still providing an acceptable level of performance.</p> <p>Running an operating system kernel on top of the microkernel - allows to leverage any software that was developed for that + allows leveraging any software that was developed for that operating system. The OS kernel runs in user-mode side-by-side with other microkernel applications such as real-time components. Multiple OSes, each with their userland @@ -1059,7 +1059,7 @@ <p>The project aims to create a port of &os; to Fiasco.OC microkernel, which is a high performance L4 microkernel developed by TU Dresden. The existing ports of OpenBSD and - Linux are used as a reference. This will allow to use the + Linux are used as a reference. This will allow the use of unique &os; features like ZFS in L4-based projects.</p> </body>
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