Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 20:35:17 +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: r45828 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201410142035.s9EKZHaB044321@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: bjk Date: Tue Oct 14 20:35:16 2014 New Revision: 45828 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/45828 Log: Further edits to the Q3 report for grammar and readability Approved by: hrs (mentor, blanket) Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml Tue Oct 14 16:03:36 2014 (r45827) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml Tue Oct 14 20:35:16 2014 (r45828) @@ -400,23 +400,23 @@ </task> <task> - <p>Improve delegation section</p> + <p>Improve the delegation section</p> </task> <task> - <p>Improve tuning section, add recently added sysctls</p> + <p>Improve the tuning section, and cover recently added sysctls</p> </task> <task> - <p>Add section on jails and the jailed property</p> + <p>Add a section on jails and the jailed property</p> </task> <task> - <p>Add FAQ section</p> + <p>Add an FAQ section</p> </task> <task> - <p>Add Use Cases section</p> + <p>Add a Use Cases section</p> </task> <task> @@ -590,16 +590,14 @@ of LLVM is known to pass all of the tests in the LLVM and Asan test suites without unexpected failures on &os; 10.0.</p> - <p>A buildbot running sanitizers tests under &os; stable/10 + <p>A buildbot running sanitizer tests under &os; stable/10 has been established. See the Links section.</p> - <p>To make it possible to run programs with sanitizers - checks enabled on &os; a new kernel state named + <p>To make it possible to run programs with sanitizer + checks enabled on &os;, a new sysctl named <tt>kern.proc_vmmap_skip_resident_count</tt> has been added. - See the Links section.</p> - - <p>Note that running Asan tests on stable/10 requires that state - to be set to 1.</p> + See the Links section. Running the address sanitizer checks + on stable/10 requires this sysctl to be set to 1.</p> <p>A similar work is in progress to add &os; support to the thread sanitizer (Tsan), which detects data races in parallel @@ -702,7 +700,7 @@ <help> <task> - <p>Finish GNOME 3.12 merge, and start tracking GNOME 3.15 + <p>Finish the GNOME 3.12 merge, and start tracking GNOME 3.15 (development series).</p> </task> </help> @@ -729,7 +727,7 @@ <body> - <p>The newest graphics stack (that is, ports behind the + <p>The newest graphics stack (that is, the set of ports conditional on the <tt>WITH_NEW_XORG</tt> knob) was enabled on all architectures. The only regression is for users of Intel GPUs and &os; 8.X or 9.0. Those releases lack the required kernel driver and @@ -758,7 +756,7 @@ <p>We will attend XDC 2014 (X.Org Developer's Conference) from October 8th through 10th in Bordeaux, France. The goal is to - reconnect with graphics stack developers, mostly working with + reconnect with graphics stack developers, who are mostly working with Linux these days. We will give a presentation on the current state of this stack on &os;. See the XDC website in the Links section for the program and live streaming.</p> @@ -877,10 +875,10 @@ <tt>USES</tt> format. Several options, such as support for <tt>easy_install</tt>, were deprecated or removed to make the infrastructure easier to maintain and less complex for - maintainers.</p> + port maintainers.</p> <p>The Python ports were refactored and simplified to improve - maintenance and to get rid of long-standing issues due to the + maintainability and to get rid of long-standing issues due to the previously complex and error-prone build process.</p> <p>The Python 2 branch was updated to Python 2.7.8 and @@ -2302,8 +2300,8 @@ <p>We published our fourth issue of the FreeBSD Journal. We have over 4500 subscriptions to date. Work continued on - adding support for the Dynamic Edition and will be available - soon. The fifth issue is due out soon.</p> + adding support for the Dynamic Edition which will be available + soon. The fifth issue is also due out soon.</p> <p>Foundation staff member Konstantin Belousov wrapped up the PostgreSQL performance investigation project. Kostik reran @@ -2313,7 +2311,7 @@ the 10.1 release. Kostik also committed a variety of virtual memory and file system bug fixes and improvements.</p> - <p>Over the quarter, Foundation staff member Edward Napiera?a + <p>Over the quarter, Foundation staff member Edward Napierała refined the new autofs-based automounter and incorporated feedback from testers in enterprise and university contexts. The automounter is available in the development branch of @@ -2342,22 +2340,22 @@ which allows &os; virtual machine disk images to be produced by default as part of the release process.</p> - <p>Put a plan together for the upcoming Secure Boot work.</p> + <p>A plan has been put together for the upcoming Secure Boot work.</p> - <p>Purchased more hardware to support &os; infrastructure at NYI + <p>More hardware has been purchased to support &os; infrastructure at NYI and Sentex.</p> - <p>Announced a collaboration between Foundation and Cavium to + <p>We announced a collaboration between the Foundation and Cavium to deliver a &os; ARMv8 based implementation.</p> - <p>Signed a license agreement with Oracle to get access to the + <p>We signed a license agreement with Oracle to get access to the TCKs for Java 7 and 8.</p> <p>Robert Watson ran and organized the Cambridge Developer Summit. We provided a travel grant to a Google Summer of Code student to attend the summit.</p> - <p>Provided a travel grant to a developer who organized and ran + <p>We provided a travel grant to a developer who organized and ran BSDDay in Argentina.</p> <p>We were a Gold Sponsor for EuroBSDCon 2014 and sponsored the @@ -2368,7 +2366,7 @@ sessions. We held our Fall Fundraising campaign there and raised over $2,000 in donations from attendees.</p> - <p>Organized the Silicon Valley Vendor/Developer Summit that is + <p>We organized the Silicon Valley Vendor/Developer Summit that is happening November 3 and 4.</p> <p>Kirk McKusick, Robert Watson, and George Neville-Neil @@ -2376,7 +2374,7 @@ of the FreeBSD Operating System."</p> <p>Kirk McKusick presented a 2-day tutorial on the &os; kernel - and gave a talk on implementation of ZFS at EuroBSDCon.</p> + and gave a talk on the implementation of ZFS at EuroBSDCon.</p> <p>Dru Lavigne attended Fossetcon: September 11-13 (fossetcon.org).</p> @@ -2384,7 +2382,7 @@ <p>We created new recruiting fliers for upcoming events, including the Grace Hopper conference.</p> - <p>Started sending out Foundation monthly update emails to keep + <p>We started sending out Foundation monthly update emails to keep the &os; community informed on some of the activities we did the previous month to support &os;.</p> </body> @@ -2405,8 +2403,7 @@ <p>The &os; Cluster Administration Team consists of the people responsible for administering the machines that the project relies on for its distributed work and communications to be - synchronised. In this quarter, the team has worked on the - following:</p> + synchronised. In this quarter, the team has worked on:</p> <ul> <li>Implemented a central, &os; cluster-specific package
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