svn commit: r45740 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status
Warren Block
wblock at FreeBSD.org
Tue Oct 7 22:24:48 UTC 2014
Author: wblock
Date: Tue Oct 7 22:24:47 2014
New Revision: 45740
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/45740
Log:
Add GNOME, Xorg, ZFSGuru, and Python reports.
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml Tue Oct 7 21:54:05 2014 (r45739)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml Tue Oct 7 22:24:47 2014 (r45740)
@@ -607,7 +607,7 @@
distro based on mfsbsd. After boot fai looks for
"bootfile-name" parameter from DHCP server which tell fai
where bsdinstall script located is. Fai supports mac-based
- config or default, if mac-based file doesn't exist.</p>
+ config or default, if mac-based file does not exist.</p>
</body>
<sponsor>
@@ -622,4 +622,245 @@
</task>
</help>
</project>
+
+ <project cat='ports'>
+ <title>GNOME/FreeBSD</title>
+
+ <contact>
+ <person>
+ <name>
+ <common>FreeBSD GNOME Team </common>
+ </name>
+ <email>gnome at FreeBSD.org</email>
+ </person>
+ </contact>
+
+ <links>
+ <url href="http://www.freebsd.org/gnome" />
+ <url href="https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Jhbuild/FreeBSD" />
+ <url href="http://marcuscom.com/downloads/marcusmerge" />
+ </links>
+
+ <body>
+ <p>GNOME is a desktop environment and graphical user interface
+ that runs on top of a computer operating system. GNOME is part
+ of the GNU Project and can be used with various Unix-like
+ operating systems, including FreeBSD.</p>
+
+ <p>The MATE ports were updated to the 1.8 versions.</p>
+
+ <p>Now that cairo was updated to 1.12 the merge of GNOME 3 has
+ started. Currently we are doing test builds to find ports
+ broken by the update and pruning ports that do not build
+ any more because of incompatible updates.</p>
+
+ <p>Gustau Perez started preliminary work on the next development
+ version of GNOME in MC, to be ready for GNOME 3.15. We will
+ skip 3.14 entirely.</p>
+ </body>
+
+ <help>
+ <task>
+ Finish GNOME 3.12 merge, and start tracking GNOME 3.15
+ (development series).
+ </task>
+ </help>
+ </project>
+
+ <project cat="ports">
+ <title>The Graphics Stack on &os;</title>
+
+ <contact>
+ <person>
+ <name>
+ <common>FreeBSD Graphics team</common>
+ </name>
+ <email>x11 at FreeBSD.org</email>
+ </person>
+ </contact>
+
+ <links>
+ <url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics">Graphics stack roadmap and supported hardware matrix</url>
+ <url href="http://trillian.chruetertee.ch/ports/browser/trunk">Graphics stack ports-related development repository</url>
+ <url href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports-announce/2014-October/000096.html">Removal of legacy X.Org announcement</url>
+ <url href="http://wiki.x.org/wiki/Events/XDC2014/">XDC 2014</url>
+ </links>
+
+ <body>
+
+ <p>The newest graphics stack (that is, ports behind the
+ WITH_NEW_XORG knob) was enabled on all architectures. The
+ only regression is for users of Intel GPUs and &os; 8.X or
+ 9.0. Those releases lack the required kernel driver and
+ therefore <tt>xf86-video-intel</tt> will not work (the last
+ UMS-aware version does not work with xserver 1.12). Users can
+ still use <tt>xf86-video-vesa</tt> if they cannot or do not
+ want to update their &os; workstation. Owners of Radeon GPUs
+ can use <tt>xf86-video-ati-ums</tt> 6.14.6 with
+ <tt>xserver</tt> 1.12 if the KMS driver is not available (that
+ is, before FreeBSD 9.3).</p>
+
+ <p>The old graphics stack will be removed with the next update
+ to these ports. See the announcement in the Links
+ section.</p>
+
+ <p>Hardware context support was added to the i915 driver in both
+ HEAD and 10.1-RELEASE. This will allow us to update libglapi,
+ libGL, dri, libEGL and libglesv2 ports to a newer version of
+ Mesa. The latest version is already available from our
+ development ports tree (see the links section).</p>
+
+ <p>Cairo was updated to 1.12. This will allow the FreeBSD GNOME
+ team to upgrade pango and Gtk+ 3. Unfortunately, the update
+ also revealed that xf86-video-intel 2.7.1 was in a much worse
+ state than previously assumed.</p>
+
+ <p>We will attend XDC 2014 (X.Org Developer's Conference) from
+ October 8th through 10th in Bordeaux, France. The goal is to
+ reconnect with graphics stack developers, mostly working with
+ Linux these days. We will give a presentation on the current
+ state of this stack on &os;. See the XDC website in the Links
+ section for the program and live streaming.</p>
+ </body>
+
+ <help>
+ <task>
+ See the "Graphics" wiki page for up-to-date information.
+ </task>
+ </help>
+ </project>
+
+ <project cat='proj'>
+ <title>ZFSGuru</title>
+
+ <contact>
+ <person>
+ <name>
+ <given>Jason</given>
+ <common>Edwards</common>
+ </name>
+ <email>sub.mesa at gmail.com</email>
+ </person>
+ </contact>
+
+ <links>
+ <url href="http://zfsguru.com" />
+ <url href="http://zfsguru.com/news/stateoftheproject/2014" />
+ <url href="http://zfsguru.com/forum/zfsgurudevelopment/876" />
+ </links>
+
+ <body>
+ <p>ZFSguru is a multifunctional server appliance with a strong
+ emphasis on storage. ZFSguru began as simple web-interface
+ frontend to ZFS, but has since grown into a &os; derivative
+ with its own infrastructure. The scope of the project has
+ also grown with the inclusion of add-on packages that add
+ functionality beyond the traditional NAS functionality found
+ in similar product like FreeNAS and NAS4Free. ZFSguru aims to
+ be a true multifunctional server appliance that is extremely
+ easy to set up and can unite both novice and more experienced
+ users in a single user interface. The modular nature of the
+ project combats the danger of bloat, whilst still allowing
+ extended functionality to be easily deployed.</p>
+
+ <p>The development work in Q3 focused heavily on the new build
+ infrastructure. This allows the ZFSguru project to release
+ new system images together with addon services at much higher
+ frequency and with much less manual intervention. This should
+ free up a lot of development time to be spent on the core of
+ the project: the web-interface.</p>
+
+ <p>Furthermore, a new website and forum is being worked at,
+ replacing the old-fashioned website that offers only limited
+ functionality. The new website will be linked to the server
+ database, providing real-time updates about the project.</p>
+
+ <p>In addition, a new platform for collaborated development is
+ in the works. A service addon has been created for the GitLab
+ project, which is a drop-in replacement of the popular GitHub
+ website. The choice was made to host our own solution and not
+ rely on GitHub itself. In retrospect this appears to have
+ been a good decision. The recent development where GitHub
+ removed projects after DCMA-takedowns being sent is
+ incompatible with the philosophy of free-flow-of-information,
+ of which the ZFSguru project is a strong proponent. By
+ hosting our own solution, we have avoided any dependency on
+ third party projects.</p>
+
+ <p>The next task will be to introduce a new remote database
+ structure, dubbed GuruDB. This will speed up the
+ web-interface as well as introduce Service Bulletins which
+ address important notifications to our users, as well as
+ announce new releases.</p>
+
+ <p>After GuruDB, the Migration Manager is one of the last
+ remaining features still missing in the web-interface. This
+ functionality provides an easy way to upgrade the current
+ system by performing a new clean installation, but migrate all
+ relevant configuration to the new installation. It also
+ allows users to 'backup' all system configuration in a single
+ file to be stored on a different machine should things go
+ awry.</p>
+
+ <p>A longer version of the 2014 development progress of the
+ ZFSguru project and information specific to the newly-released
+ 10.1-002 system image can be found in the Links section.</p>
+ </body>
+ </project>
+
+ <project cat='ports'>
+ <title>FreeBSD Python Ports</title>
+
+ <contact>
+ <person>
+ <name>
+ <given>FreeBSD</given>
+ <common>Python Team</common>
+ </name>
+ <email>python at FreeBSD.org</email>
+ </person>
+ </contact>
+
+ <links>
+ <url href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/Python">The FreeBSD Python Team Page</url>
+ <url href="irc://freebsd-python@irc.freenode.net">IRC channel</url>
+ </links>
+
+ <body>
+ <p>The FreeBSD Python team continued to improve the overall
+ experience with Python-based software on FreeBSD.</p>
+
+ <p>During the last quarter, the <tt>bsd.python.mk</tt> bits of
+ the ports infrastructure were converted to the more modern
+ <tt>USES</tt> format. Several options, such as support for
+ <tt>easy_install</tt>, were deprecated or removed to make the
+ infrastructure easier to maintain and less complex for
+ maintainers.</p>
+
+ <p>The Python ports were refactored and simplified to improve
+ maintenance and to get rid of long-standing issues due to the
+ previously complex and error-prone build process.</p>
+
+ <p>The Python 2 branch was updated to Python 2.7.8 and
+ <tt>setuptools</tt> to 5.5.1.</p>
+
+ <p>With the availability of pkg 1.3, installing Python packages
+ and modules for different Python versions is now supported in
+ the package management infrastructure. This allows us to
+ remove the previously required port duplicates for Python 2
+ and Python 3.</p>
+ </body>
+
+ <help>
+ <task>Retire the Python 3 specific port duplicates</task>
+
+ <task>Convert ports to the new <tt>USES</tt> syntax</task>
+
+ <task>More tasks can be found on the team's wiki page (see
+ Links).</task>
+
+ <task>To get involved, interested people can say hello on IRC
+ and let us know their areas of interest!</task>
+ </help>
+ </project>
</report>
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