Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2016 13:11:12 +0000 (UTC) From: Dru Lavigne <dru@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r49081 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201607091311.u69DBCAl025696@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: dru Date: Sat Jul 9 13:11:12 2016 New Revision: 49081 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/49081 Log: Add core team status report submitted by m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk. Approved by: wblock Sponsored by: iXsystems Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-04-2016-06.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-04-2016-06.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-04-2016-06.xml Sat Jul 9 11:14:02 2016 (r49080) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-04-2016-06.xml Sat Jul 9 13:11:12 2016 (r49081) @@ -1322,4 +1322,126 @@ why the open/save dialog content is missing.</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 highlight of Core's second quarter has been the + regular biennial election of a new Core team. Core would like + to thank Dag-Erling Smøgrav and Glen Barber for running + the vote. Despite an initially slow uptake on nominations, + fourteen candidates eventually stood, including four incumbent + members of core. The ninth &os; Core team will be:</p> + + <ul> + <li>John Baldwin</li> + + <li>Baptiste Daroussin</li> + + <li>Allan Jude</li> + + <li>Ed Maste</li> + + <li>Kris Moore</li> + + <li>George V. Neville-Neil</li> + + <li>Benedict Reuschling</li> + + <li>Benno Rice</li> + + <li>Hiroki Sato</li> + </ul> + + <p>The new Core Team would like to thank the departing members + for their many years of service. Members stepping down + are:</p> + + <ul> + <li>Gavin Atkinson</li> + + <li>Gleb Smirnoff</li> + + <li>David Chisnall</li> + + <li>Robert Watson</li> + + <li>Peter Wemm</li> + </ul> + + <p>The second most notable achievement this quarter was the + successful conclusion of an issue that had been on Core's + agenda for many years. With the creation of <a + href="https://planet.freebsd.org/">planet.freebsd.org</a>, + the &os; Project finally has an official blog aggregation + service.</p> + + <p>Core spent a significant amount of time reviewing licensing + and ensuring that the &os; source remains unencumbered by + onerous license terms. This quarter involved approving Adrian + Chadd's plan to import GPLv2 licensed code, allowing + <tt>bwn(4)</tt> to be built as a loadable module with support + for 802.11n networking. This required confirmation that the + license terms on the latest dummynet AQM patches were + acceptable and that its variant on the BSD 2-clause license is + suitable for use in the &os; base system.</p> + + <p>Core applied for, and received, a project-wide license for + the use of the JetBrains static analysis tool suite, at the + behest of Mathieu Previot.</p> + + <p>Another of Core's important functions is to ensure good + relations amongst developers. To that end, members of Core + provided oversight over the backing-out of disputed + <tt>blacklistd</tt> related patches to OpenSSH, and acted to + smooth over ruffled tempers.</p> + + <p>This quarter saw the usual quota of gentle reminders to avoid + intemperate language and other counter-productive behavior. + Core had to take immediate action about death threats + appearing on some of the mailing lists. The culprit was + immediately banned from the mailing lists and reported to + their email service provider. That person will be similarly + removed should they be identified as having rejoined under a + different alias.</p> + + <p>Other activities included:</p> + + <ul> + <li>Working with university authorities in an attempt to get + documentation certifying that a prospective GSoC student was + legally allowed to work on &os; code as a foreigner enrolled + at a USA university. This issue was eventually solved by + the student returning home for the summer and working from + there.</li> + + <li>Issuing guidance on policy around forced commits, or + trivial changes used as a means of correcting a commit + message. In these cases, the correct approach is to revert + the commit and re-commit with the correct message. This + ensures the continuing usefulness of + <tt>svn blame</tt>.</li> + + <li>Approving a delay to the planned introduction of packaged + base and confirming that this did not require any change to + the new support policies to be introduced with + 11.0-RELEASE.</li> + </ul> + + <p>During this quarter, four new commit bits were awarded and + none were taken in. Please welcome Emmanuel Vadot, Landon + Fuller, Mike Karels, and Eric Badger as new src committers. + Yes, that is the same Mike Karels who was once a member of the + CSRG at Berkeley and co-author of <i>The Design and + Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System</i>.</p> + </body> + </project> </report>
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