From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 15 18:44:31 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C676716A4CE; Sat, 15 Jan 2005 18:44:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BD2D43D1D; Sat, 15 Jan 2005 18:44:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@freebsd.org) Received: from [192.168.254.11] (junior-wifi.samsco.home [192.168.254.11]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j0FImSNU011575; Sat, 15 Jan 2005 11:48:28 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from scottl@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <41E96426.5020508@freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 11:42:46 -0700 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040929 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hackers@freebsd.org References: <41DA5C4D.1060606@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <41DA5C4D.1060606@freebsd.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=3.8 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on pooker.samsco.org cc: "current@freebsd.org" Subject: Last call! [Re: Call for FreeBSD status reports] X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: monthly@freebsd.org List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 18:44:31 -0000 All, This is a last call for status report submissions. If you intend to submit one, please do it in the next 12 hours. Thanks, Scott Scott Long wrote: > All, > > It's time again for the bi-monthly status reports. The July-Oct 2004 > status reports were preempted by the 5.3 release, so this one is open > for anything that has happened since June. As always, submissions > having to do with FreeBSD development, documentation, organized events, > etc, are welcome and highly encouraged. Submissions are due by Jan 15 > to monthly@freebsd.org > > There are also a couple of changes to announce. First is that Tom > Rhodes and Max Laier have volunteered to help run the status reports and > keep them more timely. Many thanks to Tom and Max for offering to > help. Second is that a couple of new attributes have been added to the > XML thanks to Max. The first is a project category attribute that will > enable us to group the submissions into categories and render the full > report with these categories for easier viewing. You can choose to use > whatever category tag fits your report best, or omit it entirely and let > us take care of it. The category mapping is listed below. Feel free to > suggest additional categories. > > proj - Projects (non-specific) > docs - Documentation > kern - Kernel > arch - Architectures > ports - Ports > vendor - Vendor / 3rd party software > misc - Miscellaneous > > The second new attribute lets you lists tasks for your project that > others can help with. An example is provided in the template under the > and tags. > > The template is available at > http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-sample.xml. I've just > committed the updated version with the new tags, so it might take a few > hours for it to reach the website for downloading. > > Submissions are due on Jan 15. Thanks a lot, and we are looking for a > big turn-out. > > Scott