Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 19:23:55 +0000 (UTC) From: Gabor Pali <pgj@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r43542 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201401151923.s0FJNtqH085950@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: pgj Date: Wed Jan 15 19:23:54 2014 New Revision: 43542 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/43542 Log: - Minor fixes to the 2013Q4 report Submitted by: emaste, koobs Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml Wed Jan 15 19:10:52 2014 (r43541) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml Wed Jan 15 19:23:54 2014 (r43542) @@ -862,8 +862,8 @@ <task>Fix <tt>amd64</tt> watchpoints.</task> <task>Test and fix the <tt>i386</tt> port.</task> <task>Implement &os; ARM support.</task> - <task>Add support for kernel debugging (<tt>ptrace(2)</tt> and - <tt>core(5)</tt> files).</task> + <task>Add support for kernel debugging, live local and remote + debugging, and core files.</task> <task>Fix remaining test suite failures.</task> <task>Enable by default on the <tt>amd64</tt> architecture.</task> </help> @@ -1800,38 +1800,38 @@ device vt_vga</pre> goals and direction as well as managing specific areas of the &os; project landscape.</p> - <p>In the fourth quarter of 2013, the Core Team has finally - reached its previous goal about launching the official - repositories for <tt>pkg(8)</tt>-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 <q>Grim Reaper</q> service which helps to - enforce the aforementioned policy.</p> - - <p>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.</p> + <p>In the fourth quarter of 2013, the Core Team finally reached + its previous goal of launching the official repositories for + <tt>pkg(8)</tt>-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 <q>Grim + Reaper</q> service which helps to enforce the aforementioned + policy.</p> + + <p>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.</p> <p>It was a busy quarter for the src repository as well. The Core - Team was happy to welcome Jordan K. Hubbard (<tt>jkh</tt>) back + Team was happy to welcome Jordan K. Hubbard (<tt>jkh</tt>) 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.</p> + 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.</p> </body> </project>
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