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Date:      Mon, 25 Dec 2017 23:28:49 +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: r51335 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status
Message-ID:  <201712252328.vBPNSn6C046594@repo.freebsd.org>

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Author: bjk
Date: Mon Dec 25 23:28:48 2017
New Revision: 51335
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/51335

Log:
  Second editing pass through the 2017Q3 report

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-07-2017-09.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-07-2017-09.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-07-2017-09.xml	Sun Dec 24 06:28:31 2017	(r51334)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-07-2017-09.xml	Mon Dec 25 23:28:48 2017	(r51335)
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@
     </contact>
 
     <body>
-      <p>The port has been updated to GDB 8.0.1.</p>
+      <p>The <tt>devel/gdb</tt> port has been updated to GDB 8.0.1.</p>
 
       <p>Support for &os;/aarch64 userland binaries has been committed
 	upstream.  These patches, along with support for debugging
@@ -353,16 +353,16 @@
     <body>
       <p>This summer has seen the creation of a puppet@ team to help
 	maintain the approximately 30 Puppet-related ports in the &os;
-	ports tree.
+	Ports Collection.
 	These ports were previously maintained by various committers,
 	and from time to time the distributed maintainership
 	introduced some delays when
-	updating a port due, to the need to wait for a maintainer's
+	updating a port, due to the need to wait for a maintainer's
 	approval for a related change to a different port.</p>
 
       <p>Puppet 5 is now in the ports tree (as
 	<tt>sysutils/puppet5</tt>).  The C++ version of Facter
-	(<tt>sysutils/facter</tt>) got a lot of love and is now a
+	(<tt>sysutils/facter</tt>) got a lot of attention and is now a
 	drop-in replacement for the previous Ruby version
 	(<tt>sysutils/rubygem-facter</tt>); it is the default facts
 	source for the Puppet 5 port.</p>
@@ -453,7 +453,7 @@
 	speeds at 10 Gbit/second.</p>
 
       <p>This quarter, with the help of Matt Macy and Sean Bruno (among
-	others), we've submitted a review in Phabricator for the
+	others), we have submitted a review in Phabricator for the
 	conversion of the <tt>ixgbe</tt> driver to use the new (and evolving)
 	<tt>iflib</tt> framework.</p>
 
@@ -571,12 +571,12 @@
 
 	<p>From a mainainer's and contributor's perspective, the
 	  port was simplified by moving all &os;-local patches to
-	  the ports tree and fetching the upstream sources directly
+	  the ports tree and fetching the upstream sources directly,
 	  instead of using a separate repository for them.</p>
     </body>
 
     <help>
-      <task>Upstream some of the patches in the ports tree.</task>
+      <task>Upstream some of the patches in the Ports Collection.</task>
     </help>
   </project>
 
@@ -683,7 +683,7 @@
 	<li><a href="https://artifact.ci.FreeBSD.org/dtrace-test/">https://artifact.ci.FreeBSD.org/dtrace-test/</a></li>;
       </ul>
 
-      <p>We had a team meeting at two developer summits during Q3:</p>
+      <p>We had team meetings at two developer summits during Q3:</p>
 
       <ul>
 	<li><a href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/DevSummit/201708/Testing">BSDcam</a></li>;
@@ -732,7 +732,7 @@
 
       <p>This quarter has been quite a busy one concerning changes to
 	the roster of committers and project members.  We have elected our
-	first new Project Member &mdash; John Hixson, who will be familiar from
+	first new Project Member: John Hixson, who will be familiar from
 	many conferences where he has given presentations and ably
 	represented iXsystems.  A second proposed Project Member was not
 	accepted by core, but only because core felt that Fedor Uporov
@@ -821,7 +821,7 @@
 
       <p>Work to replace Heimdal Kerberos in base with the more widely
 	compatible MIT Kerberos has begun in a new
-	<tt>projects/krb5</tt> branch.  This should not fall foul of
+	<tt>projects/krb5</tt> branch.  This should not fall afoul of
 	any US cryptography export regulations: the project is
 	required to notify the US government that cryptographic
 	software can be downloaded from &os; servers, and this already
@@ -880,7 +880,7 @@
 
       <p>Fundraising Efforts</p>
 
-      <p>Our work is 100% funded by your donations.  This year we've
+      <p>Our work is 100% funded by your donations.  This year we have
 	raised over $860,000 from over 500 donors.  Our 2017 fundraising
 	goal is $1,250,00 and we are continuing to work hard to meet
 	and exceed this goal!  Please consider making a donation to
@@ -917,7 +917,7 @@
 
 	<li>Extending <tt>bhyve</tt>/ARMv7 features</li>
 
-	<li>Porting <tt>bhyve</tt>ARM to an ARMv8 platform</li>
+	<li>Porting <tt>bhyve</tt>/ARM to an ARMv8 platform</li>
       </ul>
 
       <p>Having software developers on staff has allowed us to jump in
@@ -990,17 +990,15 @@
       <p>The FreeBSD Foundation sponsors many conferences, events, and
 	summits around the globe.  These events can be BSD-related,
 	open source, or technology events geared towards
-	underrepresented groups.</p>
+	underrepresented groups.  We support the &os;-focused events
+	to help provide a venue for sharing knowledge, to work
+	together on projects, and to facilitate collaboration
+	between developers and commercial users.  This all helps
+	provide a healthy ecosystem.  We support the non-&os; events
+	to promote and raise awareness of &os;, to increase the use
+	of &os; in different applications, and to recruit more
+	contributors to the Project.</p>
 
-      <p>We support the &os;-focused events to help provide a venue
-	for sharing knowledge, to work together on projects, and to
-	facilitate collaboration between developers and commercial
-	users.  This all helps provide a healthy ecosystem.  We support
-	the non-&os; events to promote and raise awareness of
-	&os;, to increase the use of &os; in different
-	applications, and to recruit more contributors to the
-	Project.</p>
-
       <p>Here is a list highlighting some of the advocacy and
 	education work we did last quarter:</p>
 
@@ -1033,7 +1031,7 @@
 
 	<li>Provided &os; advocacy material</li>
 
-	<li>Supported the 2017 USENIX Annual Technical Conference in
+	<li>Sponsored the 2017 USENIX Annual Technical Conference in
 	  Santa Clara, CA as an Industry Partner</li>
       </ul>
 
@@ -1150,7 +1148,7 @@
 	<tt>/etc/ttys</tt>, and elsewhere, applying them to its native
 	service definitions and creating additional native services.
 	It is portable (including to Linux) and composable, it
-	provides a migration path from the world of systemd Linux, and
+	provides a migration path from the world of <tt>systemd</tt> Linux, and
 	it does not require new kernel APIs.  It provides clean
 	service environments, orderings and dependencies between
 	services, parallelized startup and shutdown (including
@@ -1170,7 +1168,7 @@
 	extended status API and &quot;one-shot&quot; service support;
 	additional pre-supplied service bundles; support for service
 	aliases; improved handling of per-user D-Bus services;
-	improved import of MySQL, MariaDB, Percona, and OpenVPN
+	improved importing of MySQL, MariaDB, Percona, and OpenVPN
 	services; improved configuration import support; and extensive
 	additions to the <tt>nosh</tt> Guide.</p>
 
@@ -1200,7 +1198,7 @@
 
 	<ul>
 	  <li>the boot loader signaling &quot;emergency&quot; and
-	    &quot;rescue&quot;modes of operation</li>
+	    &quot;rescue&quot; modes of operation</li>
 
 	  <li>adding machine-readable status output to
 	    <tt>fsck</tt></li>
@@ -1224,8 +1222,8 @@
 	<name>
 	  <given>Warren</given>
 	  <common>Block</common>
-	  <email>wblock@FreeBSD.org</email>
 	</name>
+	<email>wblock@FreeBSD.org</email>
       </person>
     </contact>
 



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