svn commit: r45828 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status
Benjamin Kaduk
bjk at FreeBSD.org
Tue Oct 14 20:35:17 UTC 2014
Author: bjk
Date: Tue Oct 14 20:35:16 2014
New Revision: 45828
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/45828
Log:
Further edits to the Q3 report for grammar and readability
Approved by: hrs (mentor, blanket)
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
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml Tue Oct 14 16:03:36 2014 (r45827)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml Tue Oct 14 20:35:16 2014 (r45828)
@@ -400,23 +400,23 @@
</task>
<task>
- <p>Improve delegation section</p>
+ <p>Improve the delegation section</p>
</task>
<task>
- <p>Improve tuning section, add recently added sysctls</p>
+ <p>Improve the tuning section, and cover recently added sysctls</p>
</task>
<task>
- <p>Add section on jails and the jailed property</p>
+ <p>Add a section on jails and the jailed property</p>
</task>
<task>
- <p>Add FAQ section</p>
+ <p>Add an FAQ section</p>
</task>
<task>
- <p>Add Use Cases section</p>
+ <p>Add a Use Cases section</p>
</task>
<task>
@@ -590,16 +590,14 @@
of LLVM is known to pass all of the tests in the LLVM and Asan
test suites without unexpected failures on &os; 10.0.</p>
- <p>A buildbot running sanitizers tests under &os; stable/10
+ <p>A buildbot running sanitizer tests under &os; stable/10
has been established. See the Links section.</p>
- <p>To make it possible to run programs with sanitizers
- checks enabled on &os; a new kernel state named
+ <p>To make it possible to run programs with sanitizer
+ checks enabled on &os;, a new sysctl named
<tt>kern.proc_vmmap_skip_resident_count</tt> has been added.
- See the Links section.</p>
-
- <p>Note that running Asan tests on stable/10 requires that state
- to be set to 1.</p>
+ See the Links section. Running the address sanitizer checks
+ on stable/10 requires this sysctl to be set to 1.</p>
<p>A similar work is in progress to add &os; support to the
thread sanitizer (Tsan), which detects data races in parallel
@@ -702,7 +700,7 @@
<help>
<task>
- <p>Finish GNOME 3.12 merge, and start tracking GNOME 3.15
+ <p>Finish the GNOME 3.12 merge, and start tracking GNOME 3.15
(development series).</p>
</task>
</help>
@@ -729,7 +727,7 @@
<body>
- <p>The newest graphics stack (that is, ports behind the
+ <p>The newest graphics stack (that is, the set of ports conditional on the
<tt>WITH_NEW_XORG</tt> 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
@@ -758,7 +756,7 @@
<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
+ reconnect with graphics stack developers, who are 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>
@@ -877,10 +875,10 @@
<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>
+ port maintainers.</p>
<p>The Python ports were refactored and simplified to improve
- maintenance and to get rid of long-standing issues due to the
+ maintainability 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
@@ -2302,8 +2300,8 @@
<p>We published our fourth issue of the FreeBSD Journal. We
have over 4500 subscriptions to date. Work continued on
- adding support for the Dynamic Edition and will be available
- soon. The fifth issue is due out soon.</p>
+ adding support for the Dynamic Edition which will be available
+ soon. The fifth issue is also due out soon.</p>
<p>Foundation staff member Konstantin Belousov wrapped up the
PostgreSQL performance investigation project. Kostik reran
@@ -2313,7 +2311,7 @@
the 10.1 release. Kostik also committed a variety of virtual
memory and file system bug fixes and improvements.</p>
- <p>Over the quarter, Foundation staff member Edward Napiera?a
+ <p>Over the quarter, Foundation staff member Edward Napierała
refined the new autofs-based automounter and incorporated
feedback from testers in enterprise and university contexts.
The automounter is available in the development branch of
@@ -2342,22 +2340,22 @@
which allows &os; virtual machine disk images to be produced
by default as part of the release process.</p>
- <p>Put a plan together for the upcoming Secure Boot work.</p>
+ <p>A plan has been put together for the upcoming Secure Boot work.</p>
- <p>Purchased more hardware to support &os; infrastructure at NYI
+ <p>More hardware has been purchased to support &os; infrastructure at NYI
and Sentex.</p>
- <p>Announced a collaboration between Foundation and Cavium to
+ <p>We announced a collaboration between the Foundation and Cavium to
deliver a &os; ARMv8 based implementation.</p>
- <p>Signed a license agreement with Oracle to get access to the
+ <p>We signed a license agreement with Oracle to get access to the
TCKs for Java 7 and 8.</p>
<p>Robert Watson ran and organized the Cambridge Developer
Summit. We provided a travel grant to a Google Summer of Code
student to attend the summit.</p>
- <p>Provided a travel grant to a developer who organized and ran
+ <p>We provided a travel grant to a developer who organized and ran
BSDDay in Argentina.</p>
<p>We were a Gold Sponsor for EuroBSDCon 2014 and sponsored the
@@ -2368,7 +2366,7 @@
sessions. We held our Fall Fundraising campaign there and
raised over $2,000 in donations from attendees.</p>
- <p>Organized the Silicon Valley Vendor/Developer Summit that is
+ <p>We organized the Silicon Valley Vendor/Developer Summit that is
happening November 3 and 4.</p>
<p>Kirk McKusick, Robert Watson, and George Neville-Neil
@@ -2376,7 +2374,7 @@
of the FreeBSD Operating System."</p>
<p>Kirk McKusick presented a 2-day tutorial on the &os; kernel
- and gave a talk on implementation of ZFS at EuroBSDCon.</p>
+ and gave a talk on the implementation of ZFS at EuroBSDCon.</p>
<p>Dru Lavigne attended Fossetcon: September 11-13
(fossetcon.org).</p>
@@ -2384,7 +2382,7 @@
<p>We created new recruiting fliers for upcoming events,
including the Grace Hopper conference.</p>
- <p>Started sending out Foundation monthly update emails to keep
+ <p>We started sending out Foundation monthly update emails to keep
the &os; community informed on some of the activities we did
the previous month to support &os;.</p>
</body>
@@ -2405,8 +2403,7 @@
<p>The &os; Cluster Administration Team consists of the people
responsible for administering the machines that the project
relies on for its distributed work and communications to be
- synchronised. In this quarter, the team has worked on the
- following:</p>
+ synchronised. In this quarter, the team has worked on:</p>
<ul>
<li>Implemented a central, &os; cluster-specific package
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