svn commit: r51228 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status
Benjamin Kaduk
bjk at FreeBSD.org
Mon Nov 27 03:14:31 UTC 2017
Author: bjk
Date: Mon Nov 27 03:14:30 2017
New Revision: 51228
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/51228
Log:
Add 2017Q3 core@ entry from matthew
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
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-07-2017-09.xml Mon Nov 27 02:42:02 2017 (r51227)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-07-2017-09.xml Mon Nov 27 03:14:30 2017 (r51228)
@@ -707,4 +707,140 @@
href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/Jenkins/TODO">https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/Jenkins/TODO</a>.</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 new "&os; Community Process" was drafted during BSDCan
+ earlier this year. The first such document, FCP 0, defines how
+ the whole process works. After some time for discussion and
+ revision, FCP 0 was voted on and accepted by core, following the
+ procedure laid down within that document. Currently the use of FCPs
+ is entirely optional; we shall see how the community begins to
+ adopt their usage and evolve the process based on experience.</p>
+
+ <p>A draft update to the Code of Conduct has been prepared by the
+ advisory committee. Core is currently reviewing the text, and
+ will soon vote on accepting it. Core is keen to avoid the trap of
+ "rules lawyering". At the moment, the feeling is
+ that we need to add a preamble to the CoC to articulate the
+ goals of the project and to act as a general guide to the
+ exercise of the code.</p>
+
+ <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
+ 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
+ really deserved a commit bit instead.</p>
+
+ <p>In addition to Fedor Uporov, please also welcome (in no
+ particular order) Matt Joras, Marcin Wojtas, Chuck Tuffli, Ilya
+ Bakulin and Alex Richardson as brand new committers. We have also
+ awarded Steven Hurd and Eugene Grosbein src commit bits to go with
+ their existing ports bits. Welcome back Gordon Tetlow as a src
+ committer, essential for his new role within secteam. Eric Davis
+ and Rui Paulo have both decided to hang up their commit bits: we
+ wish them well in their future endeavours. Finally, we must
+ report the sad death of Andrey Chernov, who will be sorely missed
+ by his colleagues and collaborators.</p>
+
+ <p>Andrey's death has highlighted another question which is only
+ going to become more complex over time. Keeping track of
+ copyrights is already hard enough within a mature source tree with
+ many contributors, such as the &os; sources. Now we need to
+ consider trying to keep track of the heirs and beneficiaries of
+ contributors who have sadly passed away. Core will consult with
+ the Foundation legal team to discuss possible approaches to
+ alleviate this.</p>
+
+ <p>There have been complaints that the workings of Core are being
+ kept overly confidential, and that consequently the majority of
+ the project has too little idea of what is going on. This is
+ certainly not intentional by Core, and we are keen to open up
+ Core's business to more general community scrutiny as far as seems
+ reasonable.</p>
+
+ <p>Core dealt with a number of licensing questions:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>When upstreaming patches and other original works to
+ VirtualBox or other Oracle properties, pragmatically it works
+ best to provide them under the terms of the MIT license (one
+ of two opensource licenses accepted by Oracle). Of course,
+ this only applies to work upstreamed by or with the permission
+ of the original author.</li>
+
+ <li>The Viking software license is sufficiently BSD-like that
+ magic constants from their drivers can be used in &os;
+ code.</li>
+
+ <li>There is no separate register of deviations from the allowed
+ BSD-like licenses in the source tree: any code in the tree
+ under other than BSD-like license terms can be assumed to have
+ been approved by core.</li>
+
+ <li>At the moment the &os; copyright requirement to include
+ the copyright notice in redistributions in binary form is
+ satisfied by making the &os; sources, with all of the
+ detailed copyright information included in the different source
+ code files, available alongside pre-compiled system images.
+ However, this does not necessarily meet the needs of downstream
+ projects based on &os;, and given the new "packaged base",
+ adding per-package licensing metadata in a way similar to how
+ the Ports Collectionworks is under consideration as an alternative
+ mechanism.</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>Concerns were raised regarding the pending HardenedBSD entry in the
+ previous quarterly report prior to publication. The &os;
+ project welcomes reports from separate (but derived) projects in
+ quarterly reports and has included similar reports in the past
+ from other projects (such as TrueOS and pfSense). The HardenedBSD
+ report was edited for length and to concentrate on activities
+ during the quarter in question.</p>
+
+ <p>Amazon is proposing to set up mirrors of the FreeBSD-update and
+ <tt>pkg</tt> servers within AWS in order to provide faster
+ access for EC2 users. These mirrors will be publicly
+ accessible, but the expectation is that use will primarily be
+ from within EC2. &os; AMIs will have a preset configuration
+ that references the Amazon servers.</p>
+
+ <p>The old, long deprecated and insecure "r-commands" (rsh,
+ rlogin, rcp) are being removed from the base system for
+ 12.0-RELEASE. Notice of this was added to the man pages and
+ release notes in time for 11.1-RELEASE and 10.4-RELEASE. Anyone
+ requiring these commands for backwards compatibility can use the
+ new <tt>net/bsdrcmds</tt> port.</p>
+
+ <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
+ 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
+ covers MIT Kerberos, already available within ports.</p>
+
+ <p>A number of Bay Area &os; User Group-related domain names
+ are being given up by their original owner. The current BAFUG
+ organisers have been made aware.</p>
+
+ <p>Core has voted on a change to the Doceng voting rules to
+ provide for a "did not vote" status during doceng
+ voting similar to how portmgr and core voting operates. The
+ current requirement for all five members of doceng to register
+ a vote on issues was proving to be a significant
+ bottleneck.</p>
+ </body>
+ </project>
</report>
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