Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 04:48:36 +0000 (UTC) From: Benjamin Kaduk <bjk@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r48136 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201602010448.u114maBT034249@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: bjk Date: Mon Feb 1 04:48:36 2016 New Revision: 48136 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/48136 Log: Add an introduction to the 2015Q4 report Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml Mon Feb 1 03:25:27 2016 (r48135) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml Mon Feb 1 04:48:36 2016 (r48136) @@ -20,19 +20,46 @@ an announcement email is sent to the &os;-Announce mailing list.</strong></p> - <?ignore - <p>This report covers &os;-related projects between October and - December 2015. This is the last of four reports planned for - 2015.</p> + <p>The fourth quarter of 2015 saw a great deal of activity for + &os;. This is now the third quarter running for which I can say + that this is the largest report yet published! Many thanks to the + developers who proactively submitted topics and entries — it + is great to have more complete coverage of ongoing development for + the community to learn about in these reports.</p> + + <p>An experimental new team was formed this quarter to triage + newly-reported bugs and improve the procedures and tooling for + managing bug submissions. Making more effective use of automation + and tooling can help to increase developer productivity and the + quality of &os;, just as the adoption of Jenkins and continual + integration tooling catches regressions quickly and maintains the + high standards for the system.</p> + + <p>Efforts to bring our BSD high standards to new + architectures continue, with impressive work on arm64 leading to + its promotion to Tier-2 status and a flurry of work bringing up + the new RISC-V hardware architecture. Software architecture is + also under active development, including system startup and + service management. A handful of potential init system + replacements are mentioned in this report: <tt>launchd</tt>, + <tt>relaunchd</tt>, and <tt>nosh</tt>. Architectural changes + originating both from academic research (multipath TCP) and from + the realities of industry (<tt>sendfile(2)</tt> improvements) are + also under way. It is heartening to see how &os; provides a + welcoming platform for contributions from both research and + industry.</p> + + <p>To all the readers, whether from academia or industry, + hobbyist or professional: I hope you are as excited as I am to + read about all of the progress and projects covered in this + report, and the future of &os;!</p> - <p>The fourth quarter of 2015 was another productive quarter for - the &os; project and community. [...]</p> + <p>—Ben Kaduk</p> - <p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work!</p> + <p><hr /></p> <p>The deadline for submissions covering the period from January to March 2016 is April 7, 2016.</p> - ?> </section> <category>
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