svn commit: r51335 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status
Benjamin Kaduk
bjk at FreeBSD.org
Mon Dec 25 23:28:50 UTC 2017
Author: bjk
Date: Mon Dec 25 23:28:48 2017
New Revision: 51335
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/51335
Log:
Second editing pass through the 2017Q3 report
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-07-2017-09.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-07-2017-09.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-07-2017-09.xml Sun Dec 24 06:28:31 2017 (r51334)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-07-2017-09.xml Mon Dec 25 23:28:48 2017 (r51335)
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@
</contact>
<body>
- <p>The port has been updated to GDB 8.0.1.</p>
+ <p>The <tt>devel/gdb</tt> port has been updated to GDB 8.0.1.</p>
<p>Support for &os;/aarch64 userland binaries has been committed
upstream. These patches, along with support for debugging
@@ -353,16 +353,16 @@
<body>
<p>This summer has seen the creation of a puppet@ team to help
maintain the approximately 30 Puppet-related ports in the &os;
- ports tree.
+ Ports Collection.
These ports were previously maintained by various committers,
and from time to time the distributed maintainership
introduced some delays when
- updating a port due, to the need to wait for a maintainer's
+ updating a port, due to the need to wait for a maintainer's
approval for a related change to a different port.</p>
<p>Puppet 5 is now in the ports tree (as
<tt>sysutils/puppet5</tt>). The C++ version of Facter
- (<tt>sysutils/facter</tt>) got a lot of love and is now a
+ (<tt>sysutils/facter</tt>) got a lot of attention and is now a
drop-in replacement for the previous Ruby version
(<tt>sysutils/rubygem-facter</tt>); it is the default facts
source for the Puppet 5 port.</p>
@@ -453,7 +453,7 @@
speeds at 10 Gbit/second.</p>
<p>This quarter, with the help of Matt Macy and Sean Bruno (among
- others), we've submitted a review in Phabricator for the
+ others), we have submitted a review in Phabricator for the
conversion of the <tt>ixgbe</tt> driver to use the new (and evolving)
<tt>iflib</tt> framework.</p>
@@ -571,12 +571,12 @@
<p>From a mainainer's and contributor's perspective, the
port was simplified by moving all &os;-local patches to
- the ports tree and fetching the upstream sources directly
+ the ports tree and fetching the upstream sources directly,
instead of using a separate repository for them.</p>
</body>
<help>
- <task>Upstream some of the patches in the ports tree.</task>
+ <task>Upstream some of the patches in the Ports Collection.</task>
</help>
</project>
@@ -683,7 +683,7 @@
<li><a href="https://artifact.ci.FreeBSD.org/dtrace-test/">https://artifact.ci.FreeBSD.org/dtrace-test/</a></li>
</ul>
- <p>We had a team meeting at two developer summits during Q3:</p>
+ <p>We had team meetings at two developer summits during Q3:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/DevSummit/201708/Testing">BSDcam</a></li>
@@ -732,7 +732,7 @@
<p>This quarter has been quite a busy one concerning changes to
the roster of committers and project members. We have elected our
- first new Project Member — John Hixson, who will be familiar from
+ first new Project Member: John Hixson, who will be familiar from
many conferences where he has given presentations and ably
represented iXsystems. A second proposed Project Member was not
accepted by core, but only because core felt that Fedor Uporov
@@ -821,7 +821,7 @@
<p>Work to replace Heimdal Kerberos in base with the more widely
compatible MIT Kerberos has begun in a new
- <tt>projects/krb5</tt> branch. This should not fall foul of
+ <tt>projects/krb5</tt> branch. This should not fall afoul of
any US cryptography export regulations: the project is
required to notify the US government that cryptographic
software can be downloaded from &os; servers, and this already
@@ -880,7 +880,7 @@
<p>Fundraising Efforts</p>
- <p>Our work is 100% funded by your donations. This year we've
+ <p>Our work is 100% funded by your donations. This year we have
raised over $860,000 from over 500 donors. Our 2017 fundraising
goal is $1,250,00 and we are continuing to work hard to meet
and exceed this goal! Please consider making a donation to
@@ -917,7 +917,7 @@
<li>Extending <tt>bhyve</tt>/ARMv7 features</li>
- <li>Porting <tt>bhyve</tt>ARM to an ARMv8 platform</li>
+ <li>Porting <tt>bhyve</tt>/ARM to an ARMv8 platform</li>
</ul>
<p>Having software developers on staff has allowed us to jump in
@@ -990,17 +990,15 @@
<p>The FreeBSD Foundation sponsors many conferences, events, and
summits around the globe. These events can be BSD-related,
open source, or technology events geared towards
- underrepresented groups.</p>
+ underrepresented groups. We support the &os;-focused events
+ to help provide a venue for sharing knowledge, to work
+ together on projects, and to facilitate collaboration
+ between developers and commercial users. This all helps
+ provide a healthy ecosystem. We support the non-&os; events
+ to promote and raise awareness of &os;, to increase the use
+ of &os; in different applications, and to recruit more
+ contributors to the Project.</p>
- <p>We support the &os;-focused events to help provide a venue
- for sharing knowledge, to work together on projects, and to
- facilitate collaboration between developers and commercial
- users. This all helps provide a healthy ecosystem. We support
- the non-&os; events to promote and raise awareness of
- &os;, to increase the use of &os; in different
- applications, and to recruit more contributors to the
- Project.</p>
-
<p>Here is a list highlighting some of the advocacy and
education work we did last quarter:</p>
@@ -1033,7 +1031,7 @@
<li>Provided &os; advocacy material</li>
- <li>Supported the 2017 USENIX Annual Technical Conference in
+ <li>Sponsored the 2017 USENIX Annual Technical Conference in
Santa Clara, CA as an Industry Partner</li>
</ul>
@@ -1150,7 +1148,7 @@
<tt>/etc/ttys</tt>, and elsewhere, applying them to its native
service definitions and creating additional native services.
It is portable (including to Linux) and composable, it
- provides a migration path from the world of systemd Linux, and
+ provides a migration path from the world of <tt>systemd</tt> Linux, and
it does not require new kernel APIs. It provides clean
service environments, orderings and dependencies between
services, parallelized startup and shutdown (including
@@ -1170,7 +1168,7 @@
extended status API and "one-shot" service support;
additional pre-supplied service bundles; support for service
aliases; improved handling of per-user D-Bus services;
- improved import of MySQL, MariaDB, Percona, and OpenVPN
+ improved importing of MySQL, MariaDB, Percona, and OpenVPN
services; improved configuration import support; and extensive
additions to the <tt>nosh</tt> Guide.</p>
@@ -1200,7 +1198,7 @@
<ul>
<li>the boot loader signaling "emergency" and
- "rescue"modes of operation</li>
+ "rescue" modes of operation</li>
<li>adding machine-readable status output to
<tt>fsck</tt></li>
@@ -1224,8 +1222,8 @@
<name>
<given>Warren</given>
<common>Block</common>
- <email>wblock at FreeBSD.org</email>
</name>
+ <email>wblock at FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
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