svn commit: r48136 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

[Benjamin Kaduk]

Author: bjk
Date: Mon Feb  1 04:48:36 2016
New Revision: 48136
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/48136

Log:
  Add an introduction to the 2015Q4 report

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml	Mon Feb  1 03:25:27 2016	(r48135)
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 	an announcement email is sent to the &os;-Announce mailing
 	list.</strong></p>
 
-    <?ignore
-    <p>This report covers &os;-related projects between October and
-      December 2015.  This is the last of four reports planned for
-      2015.</p>
+    <p>The fourth quarter of 2015 saw a great deal of activity for
+      &os;.  This is now the third quarter running for which I can say
+      that this is the largest report yet published!  Many thanks to the
+      developers who proactively submitted topics and entries — it
+      is great to have more complete coverage of ongoing development for
+      the community to learn about in these reports.</p>
+
+    <p>An experimental new team was formed this quarter to triage
+      newly-reported bugs and improve the procedures and tooling for
+      managing bug submissions.  Making more effective use of automation
+      and tooling can help to increase developer productivity and the
+      quality of &os;, just as the adoption of Jenkins and continual
+      integration tooling catches regressions quickly and maintains the
+      high standards for the system.</p>
+
+    <p>Efforts to bring our BSD high standards to new
+      architectures continue, with impressive work on arm64 leading to
+      its promotion to Tier-2 status and a flurry of work bringing up
+      the new RISC-V hardware architecture.  Software architecture is
+      also under active development, including system startup and
+      service management.  A handful of potential init system
+      replacements are mentioned in this report: <tt>launchd</tt>,
+      <tt>relaunchd</tt>, and <tt>nosh</tt>.  Architectural changes
+      originating both from academic research (multipath TCP) and from
+      the realities of industry (<tt>sendfile(2)</tt> improvements) are
+      also under way.  It is heartening to see how &os; provides a
+      welcoming platform for contributions from both research and
+      industry.</p>
+
+    <p>To all the readers, whether from academia or industry,
+      hobbyist or professional: I hope you are as excited as I am to
+      read about all of the progress and projects covered in this
+      report, and the future of &os;!</p>
 
-    <p>The fourth quarter of 2015 was another productive quarter for
-      the &os; project and community.  [...]</p>
+    <p>—Ben Kaduk</p>
 
-    <p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work!</p>
+    <p><hr /></p>
 
     <p>The deadline for submissions covering the period from January
       to March 2016 is April 7, 2016.</p>
-    ?>
   </section>
 
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