svn commit: r46566 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status
Brad Davis
brd at FreeBSD.org
Thu Apr 16 03:43:16 UTC 2015
Author: brd
Date: Thu Apr 16 03:43:15 2015
New Revision: 46566
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/46566
Log:
Clean up wording
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml Wed Apr 15 22:51:29 2015 (r46565)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml Thu Apr 16 03:43:15 2015 (r46566)
@@ -274,8 +274,7 @@
and once the boot menus look exactly like in Forth, we will
start merging this project to &os; HEAD. Both loaders can
co-exist in the source tree with no problems because a
- pluggable loader functionality was introduced for this
- purpose.</p>
+ pluggable loader was introduced for this purpose.</p>
<p>The project was initially started by Wojciech
Koszek, and Pedro Souza wrote most of the Lua code last year in
@@ -495,7 +494,7 @@ WITHOUT_FORTH=y</pre>
<given>Allan</given>
<common>Jude</common>
</name>
- <email>freebsd at allanjude.com</email>
+ <email>allanjude at FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
@@ -503,7 +502,7 @@ WITHOUT_FORTH=y</pre>
<given>Alexander</given>
<common>Motin</common>
</name>
- <email>mav at freebsd.org</email>
+ <email>mav at FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
@@ -554,8 +553,8 @@ WITHOUT_FORTH=y</pre>
</task>
<task>
- <p>bhyveucl is a script for starting bhyve instances based on a
- libUCL config file. More information is at
+ <p>bhyveucl is a tool for starting bhyve instances based on a
+ UCL formatted config file. More information is at
<a
href="https://github.com/allanjude/bhyveucl">https://github.com/allanjude/bhyveucl</a></p>
</task>
@@ -565,7 +564,7 @@ WITHOUT_FORTH=y</pre>
</task>
<task>
- <p>Flexible networking backends: wanproxy, vhost-net.</p>
+ <p>Flexible networking backends such as wanproxy and vhost-net.</p>
</task>
<task>
@@ -678,7 +677,7 @@ WITHOUT_FORTH=y</pre>
<li>&a.rodrigc; worked with &a.dim; in the
freebsd-toolchain team to help identify and fix several
- compilation problems in the &os; src tree when using GCC 4.9.
+ compile problems in the &os; src tree when using GCC 4.9.
This work will help with the External Toolchain project.</li>
</ul>
</body>
@@ -756,8 +755,8 @@ WITHOUT_FORTH=y</pre>
toolchain.</p>
<p>Like the 3.5.0 release, these components require C++11
- support to build. At this point, FreeBSD 10.0 and later
- provide that support, at least on x86.</p>
+ support to build. C++11 support is available in &os; 10.0 and
+ later on the x86 architectures.
<p>It is still unclear whether we will be able to MFC this
to any stable branches, due to the difficulty it will
@@ -919,7 +918,7 @@ WITHOUT_FORTH=y</pre>
</contact>
<links>
- <url href="http://p4db.freebsd.org/depotTreeBrowser.cgi?FSPC=//depot/projects/pciehotplug">PCIe Hot-plug Perforce Branch</url>
+ <url href="http://p4web.freebsd.org/@md=d&cd=//depot/projects/&c=LQ6@//depot/projects/pciehotplug/?ac=83">PCIe Hot-plug Perforce Branch</url>
</links>
<body>
@@ -931,7 +930,7 @@ WITHOUT_FORTH=y</pre>
that is already supported by &os;, but ExpressCard PCIe
devices like Gigabit Ethernet adapters and eSATA cards are
only supported when they are present at boot, and removal may
- cause &os; to crash.</p>
+ cause a kernel panic.</p>
<p>The goal of this project is to allow these devices to
be inserted and removed while &os; is running. The work
@@ -1414,7 +1413,7 @@ WITHOUT_FORTH=y</pre>
<help>
<task>
<p>It is a near-term objective to bring the Ada-based GDHL
- (VHDL simulator) to ports. The upcoming release 0.32 will be
+ (VHDL simulator) to ports. The upcoming 0.32 release will be
based on GCC 4.9 and the port will be based on this release.</p>
</task>
</help>
@@ -1453,7 +1452,7 @@ WITHOUT_FORTH=y</pre>
in pkg was uncovered in the multiple repository support, and
swiftly fixed in pkg 1.4.99.15.</p>
- <p>For the GNOME 3.18 cycle we going to work closely with
+ <p>For the GNOME 3.18 cycle we are going to work closely with
the x11 team on porting libinput and testing Wayland. When that
is done we need to see if we want to enable Wayland for our
stable releases and we probably need XWayland from
@@ -1500,9 +1499,9 @@ WITHOUT_FORTH=y</pre>
<body>
<p>Two new system calls, futimens() and utimensat(), were
added, making it possible to set file timestamps with nanosecond
- accuracy. Various utilities like cp, mv and touch were changed
- to use the new calls to preserve and set timestamps with
- full precision.</p>
+ accuracy. Various utilities like cp, mv and touch were updated
+ to use the new calls to preserve and set timestamps with full
+ precision.</p>
<p>The stat() and related system calls have returned file
timestamps with nanosecond accuracy for a long time, but there
@@ -1581,7 +1580,7 @@ WITHOUT_FORTH=y</pre>
<p>As this goes to press, we are finalizing our first open
source release of the CHERI CPU which will be available from
- the CHERI CPU website (in the links).</p>
+ the CHERI CPU <a href="http://cheri-cpu.org/">website</a>.</p>
<p>We have been merging support for the BERI CPU platform
to &os; since 2012 and continue to do so as new features are
@@ -1637,7 +1636,7 @@ WITHOUT_FORTH=y</pre>
iSER initiator. The iSCSI stack is slightly modified to support
some extra features such as asynchronous IO completions,
unmapped data buffers, and data-transfer offloads. The user will
- be able to choose iSER as the iSCSI transport with iscsictl.</p>
+ be able to choose iSER as the iSCSI transport with iscsictl(8).</p>
<p> The project is in its initial implementation phase. The
code will be released under the BSD license and is expected to
@@ -2044,14 +2043,13 @@ WITHOUT_FORTH=y</pre>
<p>After a major re-design of the earlier prototype
implementation, the patch is again able to establish and carry
out multi-path connections that incorporate multiple addresses.
- Improvements have also been made to path management and to code
- handling the addition of subflows to a connection.</p>
+ Improvements have also been made to path management and to the
+ code handling the addition of subflows to a connection.</p>
- <p>I have most recently added data-level re-transmission
- support and am in the process of testing this. I will soon be
- in a position to start more extensive testing of the patch in
- different multi-path scenarios, with plans for a public release
- of v0.5 in May.</p>
+ <p>Most recently data-level re-transmission support has been added
+ and is being tested. Soon more extensive testing of the patch
+ in different multi-path scenarios will begin, with plans for a
+ public release of v0.5 in May.</p>
</body>
<sponsor>The &os; Foundation</sponsor>
@@ -2107,7 +2105,7 @@ WITHOUT_FORTH=y</pre>
However, security and man-power are both major concerns. Given
the track records of most freely available blogging platforms,
core is rightly wary of introducing them into the cluster.
- Similarly, curating a bloging platform will take a substantial
+ Similarly, curating a blogging platform will take a substantial
volunteer effort to ensure all posts are appropriate and to remove
spam.</p>
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