svn commit: r43534 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Wed Jan 15 01:36:10 UTC 2014

Author: pgj
Date: Wed Jan 15 01:36:09 2014
New Revision: 43534
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/43534

Log:
  - Add 2013Q4 report for core
  
  Submitted by:	pgj

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml	Wed Jan 15 00:25:49 2014	(r43533)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml	Wed Jan 15 01:36:09 2014	(r43534)
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
     <!-- XXX: Keep updating the number of entries -->
     <p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work!  This report
-      contains 32 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
+      contains 33 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
 
     <p>The deadline for submissions covering between January and
       March 2014 is April 7th, 2014.</p>
@@ -1783,4 +1783,55 @@ device vt_vga</pre>
       <task>Remove the dependency on HAL.</task>
     </help>
   </project>
+
+  <project cat='team'>
+    <title>&os; Core Team</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>&os; Core Team</name>
+	<email>core at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>The &os; Core Team constitutes the project's <q>Board of
+	Directors</q>, responsible for deciding the project's overall
+	goals and direction as well as managing specific areas of the
+	&os; project landscape.</p>
+
+      <p>In the fourth quarter of 2013, the Core Team has finally
+	reached its previous goal about launching the official
+	repositories for <tt>pkg(8)</tt>-based binary packages.  The
+	Core Team also unified the commit bit expiration policies for
+	all the Project repositories, allowing the committers to stay
+	idle for 18 months before their commit bits are automatically
+	taken into safekeeping.  This was then followed by an extension
+	on suspending cluster accounts for the committers who lost all
+	of their commit bits.  It helps to improve the security of the
+	Project server farm by temporarily disabling inactive accounts.
+	In conjuction with all those efforts, Thomas Abthorpe
+	resurrected the <q>Grim Reaper</q> service which helps to
+	enforce the aforementioned policy.</p>
+
+      <p>Along the works of John Baldwin and Hiroki Sato, many licenses
+	in the base system's source code have been revisited and cleaned
+	up.  Furthermore, the Core Team is hoping that the situation
+	could be improved by introducing periodic automated checks of
+	the license agreements, and by giving developers guidelines on
+	licensing questions.  John Baldwin and David Chisnall have been
+	guiding the work of the &os; Graphics Team on moving to the
+	newer version of X.Org and related software in the Ports
+	Collection, in coordination with the switch to Newcons on &os;
+	10.x.</p>
+
+      <p>It was a busy quarter for the src repository as well.  The Core
+	Team was happy to welcome Jordan K.  Hubbard (<tt>jkh</tt>) back
+	who has recently returned to the &os; business, and joined
+	iXsystems as project manager and release engineer of FreeNAS.
+	In addition to this, there were 3 commit bits handed out for new
+	developers, 2 committers have gained upgrade, 1 commit bit was
+	taken for safekeeping, and 1 src bit was reactivated.</p>
+    </body>
+  </project>
 </report>
