Last call! [Re: Call for FreeBSD status reports]
Scott Long
scottl at freebsd.org
Sat Jan 15 10:44:31 PST 2005
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 at 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
> <help> and <task> 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
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