From owner-svn-doc-all@freebsd.org Sun Oct 25 17:28:04 2015 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 274C786D6; Sun, 25 Oct 2015 17:28:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bjk@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 029331371; Sun, 25 Oct 2015 17:28:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bjk@FreeBSD.org) Received: from repo.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.37]) by repo.freebsd.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id t9PHS3ga024883; Sun, 25 Oct 2015 17:28:03 GMT (envelope-from bjk@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from bjk@localhost) by repo.freebsd.org (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id t9PHS3gO024882; Sun, 25 Oct 2015 17:28:03 GMT (envelope-from bjk@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <201510251728.t9PHS3gO024882@repo.freebsd.org> X-Authentication-Warning: repo.freebsd.org: bjk set sender to bjk@FreeBSD.org using -f From: Benjamin Kaduk Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2015 17:28:03 +0000 (UTC) To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r47660 - 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: 2.1.20 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: Sun, 25 Oct 2015 17:28:04 -0000 Author: bjk Date: Sun Oct 25 17:28:02 2015 New Revision: 47660 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/47660 Log: Add an introduction for the 2015Q3 report Discussed with: wblock Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml Sun Oct 25 07:33:44 2015 (r47659) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml Sun Oct 25 17:28:02 2015 (r47660) @@ -20,19 +20,60 @@ an announcement email is sent to the &os;-Announce mailing list.

- This report covers &os;-related projects between July and - September 2015. This is the third of four reports planned for - 2015.

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The third quarter of 2015 was another productive quarter for - the &os; project and community. [...]

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Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work!

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The deadline for submissions covering the period from October - to December 2015 is January 7, 2016.

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The third quarter of 2015, from July to September, was + again a period of busy activity for &os;: for the second quarter + in a row we have the largest report yet published.

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The Foundation continues to play a strong role, bringing + both a developer and evangelist presence to conferences, funding + much of the hardware that the cluster administration team uses to + keep things running, and sponsoring many development projects for + &os;. This quarter we also hear from some of the student projects + funded by Google Summer of Code 2015, ranging a wide gamut from + the bootloader to additional ARM support, but also at a range of + completion status. Some of the GSoC output is in the tree + already, but others could benefit from additional attention to + help out our budding new contributors as their schedules fill with + the return to classes.

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ZFS and the network stack continue to be strong areas for + &os;, with both receiving active maintenance and feature + improvements during this quarter. Substantial work continues on + arm64, potentially putting it on the path toward a promotion to + Tier-1 status, and a new port to the RISC-V architecture has + made great headway in a short period of time. But it is not just + our strengths and exciting new areas that have seen attention this + cycle; there are also some parts of the system that are frequently + perceived as unchanging infrastructure that have received + attention and improvements, with truss and + (k)gdb receiving significant overhauls, new + implementations for the man page tools being brought in, the + website receiving a new skin, and a brand new infrastructure for + translating documentation that greatly lowers the barrier to + entry.

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Nonetheless, despite its record length, this report does + not and cannot cover all of the work being done on &os; throughout + the reporting period — there are many bug fixes too minor to + mention here, and developers too busy working on the next project + to write up an entry for the previous project. It is not just the + developers committing to Subversion that comprise the ongoing + activities of &os;, but also the users testing unreleased + code or reporting bugs in released code, and participants on the + mailing lists and forums helping each other solve their problems. + Even the chats on IRC that wander far from the stated topic of a + channel contribute to the community around &os;; it is that + community whose effectiveness and helpfulness is a key component + of the effectiveness and usefulness of &os; itself. Not just to + the developers listed in this report, but to everyone in the + community, thank you for making &os; a great operating system.

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—Ben Kaduk

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Please submit status reports for the fourth quarter of 2015 + (from October to December) by January 7, 2016.