Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 23:17:31 +0000 (UTC) From: Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r45277 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201407132317.s6DNHV1V062242@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: gjb Date: Sun Jul 13 23:17:31 2014 New Revision: 45277 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/45277 Log: Add core@ team report. Submitted by: core-secretary (matthew) Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation 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 Sun Jul 13 23:12:16 2014 (r45276) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-04-2014-06.xml Sun Jul 13 23:17:31 2014 (r45277) @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ ?> <p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This - report contains 7 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p> + report contains 8 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p> <p>The deadline for submissions covering between July and September 2014 is October 7th, 2014.</p> @@ -575,4 +575,67 @@ <task>Support secure boot.</task> </help> </project> + + <project cat='team'> + <title>The &os; Core Team</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name>&os; Core Team</name> + <email>core@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <body> + <p>The &os; Core Team constitutes the project's "Board of + Directors", responsible for deciding the project's overall + goals and direction as well as managing specific areas of the + &os; project landscape.</p> + + <p>Topics for core this quarter have included some far-reaching + policy reviews and some significant changes to the project + development methodology.</p> + + <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) + 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 + 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; + project has switched to Bugzilla as its bug tracking system. + 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 + and the project is already seeing the benefits of the new + capabilities bought 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 + thank retiring members of core for their years of service. + 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 + 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> + + <p>Other activities included providing consultation on licensing + terms for software within the &os; source tree, and oversight + of changes to the membership of postmaster and clusteradm.</p> + + <p>Three new src commit bits were issued during this quarter, + and one was taken into safekeeping.</p> + </body> + </project> </report>
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