svn commit: r45277 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Sun Jul 13 23:17:31 UTC 2014

Author: gjb
Date: Sun Jul 13 23:17:31 2014
New Revision: 45277
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/45277

Log:
  Add core@ team report.
  
  Submitted by:	core-secretary (matthew)
  Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-04-2014-06.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-04-2014-06.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-04-2014-06.xml	Sun Jul 13 23:12:16 2014	(r45276)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-04-2014-06.xml	Sun Jul 13 23:17:31 2014	(r45277)
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
     ?>
 
     <p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work!  This
-      report contains 7 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
+      report contains 8 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
 
     <p>The deadline for submissions covering between July and
       September 2014 is October 7th, 2014.</p>
@@ -575,4 +575,67 @@
       <task>Support secure boot.</task>
     </help>
   </project>
+
+  <project cat='team'>
+    <title>The &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 "Board of
+	Directors", responsible for deciding the project's overall
+	goals and direction as well as managing specific areas of the
+	&os; project landscape.</p>
+
+      <p>Topics for core this quarter have included some far-reaching
+	policy reviews and some significant changes to the project
+	development methodology.</p>
+
+      <p>In May, a new release policy was published as well as being
+	presented at the BSDCan developer conference by John Baldwin.
+	The idea is that each major release branch (eg. 10.x) is
+	guarranteed to be supported for at least five years, but
+	individual point releases on each branch (eg. 10.0-RELEASE)
+	will be issued at regular intervals and only the latest point
+	release will be supported.</p>
+
+      <p>Another significant change did not receive approval.  When
+	the change to the Bylaws reforming the core team election
+	process was put to the vote of all &os; developers it failed
+	to reach a quorum.</p>
+
+      <p>June saw the culmination of a long running project to replace
+	the project's bug tracking system.  As of 3rd June the &os;
+	project has switched to Bugzilla as its bug tracking system.
+	All of the history of Gnats PRs has been preserved, so there
+	is no need to re-open old tickets.  Work is still going on to
+	replicate some of the integration tweaks that had been applied
+	to Gnats, but all necessary functionality has been implemented
+	and the project is already seeing the benefits of the new
+	capabilities bought by Bugzilla.</p>
+
+      <p>An election to select core members for the next two year term
+	of office took place during this period.  We would like to
+	thank retiring members of core for their years of service.
+	The new core team provides continuity with previous core
+	teams: about half are incumbents from the previous team, and
+	several former core team members have returned after a hiatus.
+	core now includes two members of the &os; Foundation board and
+	one other Foundation staff member, aiding greater coordination
+	at the top level of the project.  At the same time the
+	core-secretary role was passed on to a new volunteer.</p>
+
+      <p>Other activities included providing consultation on licensing
+	terms for software within the &os; source tree, and oversight
+	of changes to the membership of postmaster and clusteradm.</p>
+
+      <p>Three new src commit bits were issued during this quarter,
+	and one was taken into safekeeping.</p>
+    </body>
+  </project>
 </report>
