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In the fourth quarter of 2013, the Core Team has finally
- reached its previous goal about launching the official
- repositories for pkg(8)-based binary packages. The
- Core Team also unified the commit bit expiration policies for
- all the Project repositories, allowing the committers to stay
- idle for 18 months before their commit bits are automatically
- taken into safekeeping. This was then followed by an extension
- on suspending cluster accounts for the committers who lost all
- of their commit bits. It helps to improve the security of the
- Project server farm by temporarily disabling inactive accounts.
- In conjuction with all those efforts, Thomas Abthorpe
- resurrected the Grim Reaper
service which helps to
- enforce the aforementioned policy.
Along the works of John Baldwin and Hiroki Sato, many licenses - in the base system's source code have been revisited and cleaned - up. Furthermore, the Core Team is hoping that the situation - could be improved by introducing periodic automated checks of - the license agreements, and by giving developers guidelines on - licensing questions. John Baldwin and David Chisnall have been - guiding the work of the &os; Graphics Team on moving to the - newer version of X.Org and related software in the Ports - Collection, in coordination with the switch to Newcons on &os; - 10.x.
+In the fourth quarter of 2013, the Core Team finally reached
+ its previous goal of launching the official repositories for
+ pkg(8)-based binary packages. The Core Team also
+ unified the commit bit expiration policies for all Project
+ repositories, allowing committers to idle for 18 months before
+ their commit bits are automatically taken into safekeeping.
+ This was then followed by an extension to suspension of cluster
+ accounts for the committers who lost all of their commit bits.
+ This helps to improve the security of the Project server cluster
+ by temporarily disabling inactive accounts. In addition to the
+ above efforts, Thomas Abthorpe resurrected the Grim
+ Reaper
service which helps to enforce the aforementioned
+ policy.
Along with the works of John Baldwin and Hiroki Sato, many + licenses in the base system source code have been revisited and + cleaned up. Furthermore, the Core Team is hoping that the + situation can be improved by introducing periodic automated + checks of the license agreements, and by providing developers + guidelines on questions of licensing. John Baldwin and David + Chisnall have been guiding the work of the &os; Graphics Team on + moving to the newer version of X.Org and related software in the + Ports Collection, in coordination with the switch to Newcons on + &os; 10.x.
It was a busy quarter for the src repository as well. The Core - Team was happy to welcome Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh) back + Team was happy to welcome Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh) back who has recently returned to the &os; business, and joined iXsystems as project manager and release engineer of FreeNAS. - In addition to this, there were 3 commit bits handed out for new - developers, 2 committers have gained upgrade, 1 commit bit was - taken for safekeeping, and 1 src bit was reactivated.
+ In addition to this, there were 3 commit bits offered for new + developers, 2 committers were upgraded, 1 commit bit was taken + for safekeeping, and 1 src bit was reactivated.