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 — 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 "one-shot" 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 "emergency" and - "rescue"modes of operation</li> + "rescue" 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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