svn commit: r49081 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status
Dru Lavigne
dru at FreeBSD.org
Sat Jul 9 13:11:14 UTC 2016
Author: dru
Date: Sat Jul 9 13:11:12 2016
New Revision: 49081
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/49081
Log:
Add core team status report submitted by m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk.
Approved by: wblock
Sponsored by: iXsystems
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-04-2016-06.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-04-2016-06.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-04-2016-06.xml Sat Jul 9 11:14:02 2016 (r49080)
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why the open/save dialog content is missing.</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 highlight of Core's second quarter has been the
+ regular biennial election of a new Core team. Core would like
+ to thank Dag-Erling Smøgrav and Glen Barber for running
+ the vote. Despite an initially slow uptake on nominations,
+ fourteen candidates eventually stood, including four incumbent
+ members of core. The ninth &os; Core team will be:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>John Baldwin</li>
+
+ <li>Baptiste Daroussin</li>
+
+ <li>Allan Jude</li>
+
+ <li>Ed Maste</li>
+
+ <li>Kris Moore</li>
+
+ <li>George V. Neville-Neil</li>
+
+ <li>Benedict Reuschling</li>
+
+ <li>Benno Rice</li>
+
+ <li>Hiroki Sato</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>The new Core Team would like to thank the departing members
+ for their many years of service. Members stepping down
+ are:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>Gavin Atkinson</li>
+
+ <li>Gleb Smirnoff</li>
+
+ <li>David Chisnall</li>
+
+ <li>Robert Watson</li>
+
+ <li>Peter Wemm</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>The second most notable achievement this quarter was the
+ successful conclusion of an issue that had been on Core's
+ agenda for many years. With the creation of <a
+ href="https://planet.freebsd.org/">planet.freebsd.org</a>,
+ the &os; Project finally has an official blog aggregation
+ service.</p>
+
+ <p>Core spent a significant amount of time reviewing licensing
+ and ensuring that the &os; source remains unencumbered by
+ onerous license terms. This quarter involved approving Adrian
+ Chadd's plan to import GPLv2 licensed code, allowing
+ <tt>bwn(4)</tt> to be built as a loadable module with support
+ for 802.11n networking. This required confirmation that the
+ license terms on the latest dummynet AQM patches were
+ acceptable and that its variant on the BSD 2-clause license is
+ suitable for use in the &os; base system.</p>
+
+ <p>Core applied for, and received, a project-wide license for
+ the use of the JetBrains static analysis tool suite, at the
+ behest of Mathieu Previot.</p>
+
+ <p>Another of Core's important functions is to ensure good
+ relations amongst developers. To that end, members of Core
+ provided oversight over the backing-out of disputed
+ <tt>blacklistd</tt> related patches to OpenSSH, and acted to
+ smooth over ruffled tempers.</p>
+
+ <p>This quarter saw the usual quota of gentle reminders to avoid
+ intemperate language and other counter-productive behavior.
+ Core had to take immediate action about death threats
+ appearing on some of the mailing lists. The culprit was
+ immediately banned from the mailing lists and reported to
+ their email service provider. That person will be similarly
+ removed should they be identified as having rejoined under a
+ different alias.</p>
+
+ <p>Other activities included:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>Working with university authorities in an attempt to get
+ documentation certifying that a prospective GSoC student was
+ legally allowed to work on &os; code as a foreigner enrolled
+ at a USA university. This issue was eventually solved by
+ the student returning home for the summer and working from
+ there.</li>
+
+ <li>Issuing guidance on policy around forced commits, or
+ trivial changes used as a means of correcting a commit
+ message. In these cases, the correct approach is to revert
+ the commit and re-commit with the correct message. This
+ ensures the continuing usefulness of
+ <tt>svn blame</tt>.</li>
+
+ <li>Approving a delay to the planned introduction of packaged
+ base and confirming that this did not require any change to
+ the new support policies to be introduced with
+ 11.0-RELEASE.</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>During this quarter, four new commit bits were awarded and
+ none were taken in. Please welcome Emmanuel Vadot, Landon
+ Fuller, Mike Karels, and Eric Badger as new src committers.
+ Yes, that is the same Mike Karels who was once a member of the
+ CSRG at Berkeley and co-author of <i>The Design and
+ Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System</i>.</p>
+ </body>
+ </project>
</report>
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