Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 22:25:11 +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: r44348 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201403242225.s2OMPBvJ029354@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: pgj Date: Mon Mar 24 22:25:11 2014 New Revision: 44348 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/44348 Log: - Start building the 2014Q1 status report with a report on Chromium Submitted by: rene Added: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml (contents, props changed) Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/Makefile Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/Makefile ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/Makefile Mon Mar 24 22:15:12 2014 (r44347) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/Makefile Mon Mar 24 22:25:11 2014 (r44348) @@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ XMLDOCS+= report-2013-05-devsummit XMLDOCS+= report-2013-07-2013-09 XMLDOCS+= report-2013-09-devsummit XMLDOCS+= report-2013-10-2013-12 +XMLDOCS+= report-2014-01-2014-03 XSLT.DEFAULT= report.xsl Added: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml ============================================================================== --- /dev/null 00:00:00 1970 (empty, because file is newly added) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml Mon Mar 24 22:25:11 2014 (r44348) @@ -0,0 +1,92 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> +<!DOCTYPE report PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD FreeBSD XML Database for Status Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/share/xml/statusreport.dtd" > +<!-- $FreeBSD$ --> +<report> + <date> + <month>January-March</month> + + <year>2014</year> + </date> + + <section> + <title>Introduction</title> + + <p>This report covers &os;-related projects between January and + March 2014. This is the first of four reports planned for 2014.</p> + + <!-- XXX: Add introduction --> + + <!-- XXX: Keep the number of entries updated --> + <p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report + contains 1 entry and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p> + + <p>The deadline for submissions covering between April and + June 2014 is July 7th, 2014.</p> + </section> + + <category> + <name>ports</name> + + <description>Ports</description> + </category> + + <project cat='ports'> + <title>Chromium</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name>Chromium on &os; Team</name> + <email>freebsd-chromium@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="http://www.chromium.org/Home">Chromium website</url> + <url href="https://github.com/gliaskos/freebsd-chromium">Development repository on GitHub</url> + <url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/Chromium">Chromium on &os; wiki</url> + </links> + + <body> + <p>Over the last four years the Chromium team has been busy with + porting Chromium to &os;. This involves patching the browser so + that it runs on &os;, tracking and documenting security updates, + and merging patches back upstream.</p> + + <p>While there are already several browsers available for &os;, + advantages of Chromium are:</p> + + <ul> + <li>Quick response from upstream to security issues, resulting + in approximately bi-weekly updates.</li> + + <li>A testbed for security features of &os;, like Capsicum. + While support for this capability and sandbox framework is + currently not included in the browser, a proof-of-concept + implementation for an early version of Chromium was realized + within a single weekend.</li> + </ul> + + <p>George Liaskos and &a.rene; are currently busy with submitting + the remaining patches specific to &os; back upstream. Apart from + making future updates easier, it sometimes also improves the + overall code quality.</p> + + <p>&a.jonathan; recently updated the Capsicum patches for Chromium + and is talking to upstream about them.</p> + </body> + + <help> + <task>Advocate &os;. While patches are getting accepted by both + humans and bots, it is not an official platform so attitude varies + from developer to developer. While &a.rene; thinks it is a bit + early, it might be fruitful to investigate what is required to + make &os; (and possibly OpenBSD) an official platform in terms + of both hardware and procedures.</task> + + <task>If you feel comfortable with large source trees, you can try + to build the Git version of Chromium on &os;. If you are also + comfortable with signing Googles Contributor License Agreement, + you can join testing and submitting patches upstream.</task> + </help> + </project> +</report>
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