os/doc
3
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Pull requests Projects Releases Wiki Activity

Regenerate 2019q2 report for missed Foundation entry

Browse source 
Reviewed by:	allanjude (previous version)
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21419
This commit is contained in:
Ed Maste 2019-08-26 20:36:11 +00:00
parent 96301ee791
commit 22bf537593
Notes: svn2git 2020-12-08 03:00:23 +00:00 
svn path=/head/; revision=53333
1 changed files with 286 additions and 0 deletions
Download patch file Download diff file Expand all files Collapse all files

286
en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2019-04-2019-06.xml
View file

@ -620,6 +620,292 @@
</project>
<project cat='team'>
<title>FreeBSD Foundation</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>Deb Goodkin</name>
<email>deb@FreeBSDFoundation.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<body>
<p>The FreeBSD Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit
organization dedicated to supporting and promoting
the FreeBSD Project and community worldwide.
Funding comes from individual and corporate
donations and is used to fund and manage software
development projects, conferences and developer
summits, and provide travel grants to FreeBSD
contributors. The Foundation purchases and
supports hardware to improve and maintain FreeBSD
infrastructure and provides resources to improve
security, quality assurance, and release
engineering efforts; publishes marketing material
to promote, educate, and advocate for the FreeBSD
Project; facilitates collaboration between
commercial vendors and FreeBSD developers; and
finally, represents the FreeBSD Project in
executing contracts, license agreements, and other
legal arrangements that require a recognized legal
entity.</p>
<p>Here are some highlights of what we did to help FreeBSD
last quarter:</p>
<p>We held our annual board meeting in Ottawa on May 14.
Board Director and Officer elections take place
each year at this meeting. Justin Gibbs was
elected as the new President of the Board of
Directors. The new FreeBSD Foundation Board of
Directors includes President and Founder Justin T.
Gibbs, Vice President Benedict Reuschling,
Secretary Philip Paeps, Treasurer Marshall Kirk
McKusick, and Directors Hiroki Sato, George
Neville-Neil and Robert N. M. Watson. You can read
<a href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/news-and-events/latest-news/freebsd-foundation-names-justin-gibbs-as-new-board-president/">more
about the elections</a>.</p>
<p>After the elections, our management team gave updates to
the board on their respective areas. We then
discussed the key areas of the Project that need
help, and where we can step in to fill those
holes. We reviewed and updated our 12 month goals,
and identified projects we should support. We then
discussed conferences we are likely to attend, and
went over the latest on our fundraising efforts.
We followed that up with a discussion on how to
get more users to contribute back to the Project.
While discussing how to increase the number of
users and contributors, we talked about methods
for making for more training material available.</p>
<p>
Partnerships and Commercial User Support</p>
<p>
We help facilitate collaboration between commercial users
and FreeBSD developers. We also meet with
companies to discuss their needs and bring that
information back to the Project. In Q2, Ed Maste
and Deb Goodkin met with a few commercial users in
Germany. It’s not only beneficial for the above,
but it also helps us understand some of the
applications where FreeBSD is used. Because BSDCan
brings in a high number of commercial users, we
have an excellent opportunity to have similar
discussions about their needs during the four-day
FreeBSD Summit and BSDCan.</p>
<p>
Fundraising Efforts</p>
<p>
Our work is 100% funded by your donations. We are grateful
for the generous donations from Intel, NetApp,
VMware and Stormshield last quarter. We are
working hard to get more commercial users to give
back to help us continue our work supporting
FreeBSD. More importantly, we’d like to thank
our individual donors, for making $10-$1,000
donations last quarter, for a total of $16,000!</p>
<p>Please consider making a donation to help us
<a href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/donate/">continue and
increase our support for FreeBSD</a>.</p>
<p>We also have the
<a href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/FreeBSD-foundation-partnership-program/">Partnership
Program</a> to provide more
benefits for our larger commercial donors.
Find out more information at the link and share with your
companies!</p>
<p>OS Improvements</p>
<p>
The Foundation improves the FreeBSD operating system by
employing our technical staff to maintain and
improve critical kernel subsystems, add features
and functionality, and fix problems. The
Foundation also provides grants to fund individual
projects.</p>
<p>There were 243 commits to the FreeBSD base system
repository sponsored by the Foundation during the
quarter. These include improvements to the tmpfs
in-memory, MSDOS, and UFS filesystems, device
driver and hardware compatibility fixes, virtual
memory (VM), tool chain, documentation, and
testing and continuous integration improvements.</p>
<p>We fixed a number of race conditions and security issues
found by Syzkaller, Google’s
code-coverage-guided system call fuzzer.</p>
<p>Alan Somers’ work on updating FreeBSD’s support for
FUSE (userspace filesystems) continued during the
quarter; the full details are elsewhere in this
quarterly report. At this point most of the work
has been committed to the project branch but some
bug fixes and improvements have been committed
directly to the FreeBSD development branch.</p>
<p>Edward Napierala’s Linuxulator project continued through
the quarter, resulting in a number of improvements
to the Linuxulator and linux-specific
functionality such as linsysfs. This work is part
of the path to supporting the Linux strace
debugging tool in order to facilitate debugging
failures of other Linux binaries under the
Linuxulator. Mateusz Guzik continued with
scalability and performance improvements during
the quarter, and Bjoern Zeeb integrated the SDIO
stack (with details elsewhere in the quarterly
report).</p>
<p>Progress was made on the online RAID-Z expansion project
over the quarter. Matt Ahrens posted an <a
href="https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/pull/8853">alpha
preview</a> of the feature for further
experimentation and review, and the FreeBSD
Foundation will make an alpha release image
available for testing in the near future.</p>
<p>Foundation staff contributed to nine FreeBSD security
advisories and errata updates over the quarter,
including CPU vulnerability workarounds. Related
work included improving Intel microcode update
loading.</p>
<p>Continuous Integration and Quality Assurance</p>
<p>
The Foundation provides a full-time staff member who is
working on improving our automated testing,
continuous integration, and overall quality
assurance efforts.</p>
<p>During the second quarter of 2019, Foundation staff
continued to improve the project's CI
infrastructure, worked with contributors to fix
the failing build and test cases, and worked with
other teams in the Project for their testing
needs. We hosted a CI-focused working group at
BSDcan and continue to publish the CI weekly
report at <a
href="https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-testing">freebsd-testing@</a>
mailing list.</p>
<p>See the FreeBSD CI section of this report for more
information.</p>
<p>
Supporting FreeBSD Infrastructure</p>
<p>
The Foundation provides hardware and support to improve
the FreeBSD infrastructure. Last quarter, we
continued supporting FreeBSD hardware located
around the world.</p>
<p>FreeBSD Advocacy and Education</p>
<p>
A large part of our efforts are dedicated to advocating
for the Project. This includes promoting work
being done by others with FreeBSD; producing
advocacy literature to teach people about FreeBSD
and help make the path to starting using FreeBSD
or contributing to the Project easier; and
attending and getting other FreeBSD contributors
to volunteer to run FreeBSD events, staff FreeBSD
tables, and give FreeBSD presentations.</p>
<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. We support
the FreeBSD-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-FreeBSD events to promote and raise awareness
of FreeBSD, to increase the use of FreeBSD in
different applications, and to recruit more
contributors to the Project.</p>
<p>Check out some of the advocacy and education work we did
last quarter:</p>
<ul>
<li>Represented FreeBSD at LinuxFest Northwest In Bellingham,
Washington</li>
<li>Sponsored and helped organize the FreeBSD Developers
Summit at BSDCan, in Ottawa, Canada</li>
<li>Sponsored and attended BSDCan 2019</li>
<li>Set up registration and attended the Vienna FreeBSD
Security Hackathon in Vienna, Austria</li>
<li>Represented FreeBSD at HKOSCON</li>
<li>Attended the Berlin FreeBSD Developers Summit</li>
<li>Presented at 2019 Comcast Labs Connect Open Source
Conference</li>
<li>Sponsored, presented and represented FreeBSD at RootConf
2019 in Bangalore, India</li>
<li>Committed to attend OSCON, and All Things Open</li>
<li>Committed to sponsor and help organize a Bay Area
Developers Summit</li>
<li>Provided FreeBSD advocacy material</li>
<li>Provided travel grants to FreeBSD contributors to attend
many of the above events</li>
</ul>
<p>
We continued producing FreeBSD advocacy material to help
people promote FreeBSD around the world.</p>
<p>Read more about our conference adventures in the
conference recaps and trip reports in our
<a href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/news-and-events/newsletter/">monthly
newsletters</a>.</p>
<p>We help educate the world about FreeBSD by publishing the
professionally produced FreeBSD Journal. As we
mentioned previously, the FreeBSD Journal is now a
free publication. Find out more and access the
latest issues at
<a href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/journal/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/journal/</a>.</p>
<p>You can find out more about
<a href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/news-and-events/">events
we attended and upcoming events</a>.</p>
<p>We have continued our work with a new website developer to
help us improve our website. Work has begun to
make it easier for community members to find
information more easily and to make the site more
efficient.</p>
<p>Legal/FreeBSD IP</p>
<p>
The Foundation owns the FreeBSD trademarks, and it is our
responsibility to protect them. We also provide
legal support for the core team to investigate
questions that arise.</p>
<p>Go to http://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org to find out how we
support FreeBSD and how we can help you!</p>
</body>
</project>
<project cat='proj'>
<title>bhyve - Live Migration</title>