The &os; Core Team

From owner-svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Fri Jan 13 06:26:35 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-doc-head@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89961CADD6A; Fri, 13 Jan 2017 06:26:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bjk@FreeBSD.org) Received: from repo.freebsd.org (repo.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:6068::e6a:0]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4CB4D1592; Fri, 13 Jan 2017 06:26:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bjk@FreeBSD.org) Received: from repo.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.37]) by repo.freebsd.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id v0D6QY3C094937; Fri, 13 Jan 2017 06:26:34 GMT (envelope-from bjk@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from bjk@localhost) by repo.freebsd.org (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id v0D6QYUR094936; Fri, 13 Jan 2017 06:26:34 GMT (envelope-from bjk@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <201701130626.v0D6QYUR094936@repo.freebsd.org> X-Authentication-Warning: repo.freebsd.org: bjk set sender to bjk@FreeBSD.org using -f From: Benjamin Kaduk Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 06:26:34 +0000 (UTC) To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r49845 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status X-SVN-Group: doc-head MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: svn-doc-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the doc tree for head List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 06:26:35 -0000 Author: bjk Date: Fri Jan 13 06:26:34 2017 New Revision: 49845 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/49845 Log: Add the core entry from matthew Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-10-2016-12.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-10-2016-12.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-10-2016-12.xml Fri Jan 13 05:52:33 2017 (r49844) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-10-2016-12.xml Fri Jan 13 06:26:34 2017 (r49845) @@ -670,4 +670,113 @@ list on GitHub. + + + The &os; Core Team + + + + &os; Core Team + core@FreeBSD.org + + + + +

The major concern for Core during the last quarter of 2016 has + been about maintaining the effectiveness of secteam. The team is + primarily in need of better project management, both to improve + communication generally and to allow the other team members to + concentrate on the technical aspects of handling + vulnerabilities.

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To that end, there has been agreement in principle for either + the FreeBSD Foundation or one of the companies that are major + &os; users to employ someone specifically in this role.

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Core confirmed that the new support model would go into effect + with 11.0-RELEASE despite the postponement of the switch to a + packaged base release mechanism. For details of the new support + model, please follow the links from the security + page of the &os; website.

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Core requested the removal of the misc/jive port, on + the grounds that it had no function other than to turn text into + an offensively racist parody. This proved controversial, with + many seeing this as a first step in bowdlerizing the entire ports + tree. That is certainly not Core's intention. Core's aim here is + to help secure the future of the &os; project by making it + welcoming to all contributors, regardless of ethnicity, gender, + sexuality or other improper bases for discrimintation. While + misc/jive may once have been seen as harmless fun, today + the implicit approval implied by having it in the ports tree sends + a message at odds with the project's aims.

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The Marketing team and the associated marketing@FreeBSD.org + mailing list were wound up, due to lack of activity. Messages to + marketing@FreeBSD.org will be forwarded to the + FreeBSD Foundation's marketing team instead.

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Core member Allan Jude, who was already the clusteradm liason, + became a full member of clusteradm.

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An emergency correction to the 11.0 release notes was + authorised, as it was giving the misleading impression that + 802.11n wireless support had only just been added, and this + misapprehension was being repeated in the press. In reality, &os; + has had 802.11n support for many years, and the announcement + should have said that support had been added to many additional + device drivers.

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Discussions about a proposal to improve Unicode support are + on-going. &os; is already standards conformant, but the + propsal is to switch to a __STDC_ISO_10646_ + implementation, similar to what Linux glibc currently uses. + Opinions are divided on the technical merits of the new + approach.

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There were the usual quota of queries about licensing and other + legal matters:

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Plans to create a GPLv3 overlay for the base system were + shelved in the light of faster than expected progress at + enabling building the world using an external toolchain.
The trademarks page on the website was updated to show the + current owners of a number of trademarks in their approved + form.
In the absense of a tool to extract and summarize all of the + relevant information, the obligation in the BSD license that + "Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above + copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following + disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided + with the distribution." is fulfilled by providing a tarball of + the system sources with their embedded copyright + statements.
The European Court of Justice's "Right to be + Forgotten" only applies to search engines, and the &os; + project is not one of those, so need not take any action.
Core is following closely discussions within the LLVM + project regarding a change of license which if implemented, + might require an audit of the + entire ports tree to discover all packages that contain binaries + linked against libc++ and ensure that they are licensed + compatibly with LLVM. However, indications are that the LLVM + project will not adopt such changes.
The "Open Source Exception" in the firmware + license means that committing a "binary blob" driver + for the Nvidia Jetson TK1 XHCI device is acceptable.

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During this quarter four new commit bits were awarded. Please + welcome Dexuan Cui, David Bright, Konrad Witaszczyk, and Piotr + Stefaniak. We were sorry to see Edwin Lansing hang up his commit + bits and step down from portmgr.

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