Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 23:08:47 +0000 (UTC) From: Christian Brueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r46194 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201501122308.t0CN8lYm092481@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: brueffer Date: Mon Jan 12 23:08:46 2015 New Revision: 46194 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/46194 Log: Spelling and grammar cleanup pass. Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml Mon Jan 12 21:26:36 2015 (r46193) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml Mon Jan 12 23:08:46 2015 (r46194) @@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ <body> <p>With funding from the &os; Foundation, the &os; forums - were migrated to XenForo software. The new software is far more + were migrated to the XenForo software. The new software is far more capable and easy to use. While the entire forum team contributed, &a.danger; did an excellent job importing existing users and messages and bringing back the @@ -166,15 +166,15 @@ <p>The Reaper facility, to allow a process to reliably track the running and exiting state of the whole subtree of the processes, was added. It is intended to improve tools like timeout(1) or - poudriere, by making it impossible for the runaway granchild to - escape the controlling process. Feature was designed based on - similar facility in the DragonFlyBSD and Linux, with some - references to the Solaris contracts. Committed to HEAD in + poudriere, by making it impossible for the runaway grandchild to + escape the controlling process. The feature was designed based on + similar facilities in DragonFlyBSD and Linux, with some + references to Solaris contracts. Committed to HEAD in r275800.</p> <p>The FreeBSD suspension code does not ensure that the system, both software and hardware, - is in the steady and consistent state. One aspect is + is in a steady and consistent state. One aspect is usermode process activity, which is not yet stopped, continuing to making requests to the hardware. It is not realistic to expect drivers to be able to correctly handle the calls after @@ -187,12 +187,12 @@ existing single-threading code, but extending it to allow external thread to put some processes into stopped state. Also, a facility to sync filesystems before suspend was added, to ensure that - consistent metadata and as much as possilbe of the cached user + consistent metadata and as much as possible of the cached user data are on stable storage, to minimize damage of failed resume.</p> <p>The code stressed some parts of the system and has lead to - discovery of a numbers of bugs in the different areas, + discovery of a numbers of bugs in different areas, including process management, buffer cache and syscall handlers. The bugs were fixed, fixes and the features commmitted by a series culminating in r275745.</p> @@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ <p>Implement flexible dependencies.</p> </task> <task> - <p>Test the developement branch.</p> + <p>Test the development branch.</p> </task> <task> <p>More developers are needed, check the Issues on Github.</p> @@ -448,7 +448,7 @@ helpful to: <ul> <li>Prepare a migration to a newer version of toolchain components.</li> - <li>Port &os; to newer architecture</li> + <li>Port &os; to a new architecture</li> <li>Upgrade from a &os; that ships with GCC 4.2 to a version that ship with clang 3.5+ (which need a more modern toolchain than GCC 4.2 to bootstrap).</li> </ul> </p> @@ -478,7 +478,7 @@ </ul> </p> - <p>Those packages will depend on special version of GCC + <p>Those packages will depend on special versions of GCC (minimalistic cross-built ready GCC) and on binutils. To use them run: <tt>make CROSS_TOOLCHAIN=powerpc64-gcc TARGET=powerpc TARGET_ARCH=powerpc64</tt></p> @@ -498,7 +498,7 @@ <p>Adapt and upstream the aarch64 patches for binutils 2.25.</p> </task> <task> - <p>Add more pre seeded configurations.</p> + <p>Add more pre-seeded configurations.</p> </task> </help> </project> @@ -554,10 +554,10 @@ <p>The FreeBSD GNOME Team maintains the GNOME, MATE and CINNAMON desktop environments and graphical user interfaces for FreeBSD. GNOME 3 is part of the GNU Project. MATE is a fork of the GNOME 2 desktop. CINNAMON - is desktop environment using GNOME 3 technologies but with a GNOME 2 + is a desktop environment using GNOME 3 technologies but with a GNOME 2 look and feel.</p> - <p>This quarter was exciting time for the GNOME Team. We imported + <p>This quarter was an exciting time for the GNOME Team. We imported GNOME 3.14.0 and CINNAMON 2.2.16 into the ports tree. At the same time we removed the old GNOME 2.32 desktop. And two weeks later we updated GNOME to 3.14.2 and CINNAMON to 2.4.2, which was collected @@ -847,7 +847,7 @@ <body> <p>Since the last status report, many people have contributed - help in various areas to help with with Continuous Integration + help in various areas to help with Continuous Integration and Testing in FreeBSD. Some of the highlights include:</p> <ul> @@ -862,7 +862,7 @@ <li>&a.rodrigc; gave a presentation "Kyua and Jenkins Testing Framework" for BSD at the Developer and Vendor summit on November 3, 2014 in San Jose, California. In the presentation, - &a.rodrigc;'s described how, for every commit to the FreeBSD source + &a.rodrigc; described how, for every commit to the FreeBSD source tree, nearly 3000 tests are run using kyua inside a bhyve virtual machine. The kyua test results are exported to JUnit XML format, which is then used by Jenkins to generate web-based test reports with @@ -1121,7 +1121,7 @@ <p>We migrated our Ports development tree to Git and GitHub. Tracking changes in the official Ports tree and preparing patches is way easier. Furthermore, we can accept pull requests. All reasons behind - this change are detailed on the blog and the workf-low is described + this change are detailed on the blog and the workflow is described on the wiki.</p> <p>The XDC 2014 (X Developer's Conference) was a great conference. @@ -1328,7 +1328,7 @@ At this point, FreeBSD 10.0 and later provide that support, at least on x86.</p> - <p>In the near future, more components from the llvm.org will + <p>In the near future, more components from llvm.org will be updated in base, with libc++ and libcompiler-rt most likely being the first.</p> @@ -1339,7 +1339,7 @@ <help> <task> - <p> While most ports that were impacted by this update have + <p>While most ports that were impacted by this update have already been fixed, there are still a few that do not work with the clang 3.5.0 update.</p> @@ -1523,7 +1523,7 @@ objcopy, and accepts the same command-line arguments. For it to be a viable replacement for all uses of objcopy in the base system, it must gain support for writing portable exectuable (PE) - format binaries, which are used in by UEFI boot code.</p> + format binaries, which are used by UEFI boot code.</p> <p>The ELF Tool Chain project does not currently provide replacements for as, ld, and objdump. For &os; these tools will @@ -1657,7 +1657,7 @@ <help> <task> - <p> Improve documentation.</p> + <p>Improve documentation.</p> </task> <task> @@ -2114,7 +2114,7 @@ review. Currently it is planned to commit the PCI infrastructure to head by the end of January.</p> - <p>In additional to the PCI infrastructure, individual PCI drivers + <p>In addition to the PCI infrastructure, individual PCI drivers must be extended to implement SR-IOV. An SR-IOV implementation is in progress for the ixl(4) driver, which supports the Intel XL710 family of 40G and 10G NICs. Currently it is planned to have this in review
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