The &os; Core Team

From owner-svn-doc-all@freebsd.org Sat Jul 9 13:11:13 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-doc-all@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 E97F7B82192; Sat, 9 Jul 2016 13:11:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dru@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 9A36D1F33; Sat, 9 Jul 2016 13:11:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dru@FreeBSD.org) Received: from repo.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.37]) by repo.freebsd.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id u69DBCdF025697; Sat, 9 Jul 2016 13:11:12 GMT (envelope-from dru@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from dru@localhost) by repo.freebsd.org (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id u69DBCAl025696; Sat, 9 Jul 2016 13:11:12 GMT (envelope-from dru@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <201607091311.u69DBCAl025696@repo.freebsd.org> X-Authentication-Warning: repo.freebsd.org: dru set sender to dru@FreeBSD.org using -f From: Dru Lavigne Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2016 13:11:12 +0000 (UTC) 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 X-SVN-Group: doc-head MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: svn-doc-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire doc trees \(except for " user" , " projects" , and " translations" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2016 13:11:14 -0000 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. + + + The &os; Core Team + + + + &os; Core Team + core@FreeBSD.org + + + + +

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:

+ +

John Baldwin
Baptiste Daroussin
Allan Jude
Ed Maste
Kris Moore
George V. Neville-Neil
Benedict Reuschling
Benno Rice
Hiroki Sato

+ +

The new Core Team would like to thank the departing members + for their many years of service. Members stepping down + are:

+ +

Gavin Atkinson
Gleb Smirnoff
David Chisnall
Robert Watson
Peter Wemm

+ +

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 planet.freebsd.org, + the &os; Project finally has an official blog aggregation + service.

+ +

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 + bwn(4) 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.

+ +

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.

+ +

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 + blacklistd related patches to OpenSSH, and acted to + smooth over ruffled tempers.

+ +

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.

+ +

Other activities included:

+ +

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.
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 + svn blame.
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.

+ +

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 The Design and + Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System.

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