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an announcement email is sent to the &os;-Announce mailing
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list.</strong></p>
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<p>This report covers &os;-related projects between July and
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September 2015. This is the third of four reports planned for
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2015.</p>
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<p>The third quarter of 2015, from July to September, was
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again a period of busy activity for &os;: for the second quarter
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in a row we have the largest report yet published.</p>
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<p>The third quarter of 2015 was another productive quarter for
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the &os; project and community. [...]</p>
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<p>The Foundation continues to play a strong role, bringing
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both a developer and evangelist presence to conferences, funding
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much of the hardware that the cluster administration team uses to
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keep things running, and sponsoring many development projects for
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&os;. This quarter we also hear from some of the student projects
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funded by Google Summer of Code 2015, ranging a wide gamut from
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the bootloader to additional ARM support, but also at a range of
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completion status. Some of the GSoC output is in the tree
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already, but others could benefit from additional attention to
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help out our budding new contributors as their schedules fill with
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the return to classes.</p>
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<p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work!</p>
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<p>ZFS and the network stack continue to be strong areas for
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&os;, with both receiving active maintenance and feature
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improvements during this quarter. Substantial work continues on
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arm64, potentially putting it on the path toward a promotion to
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Tier-1 status, and a new port to the RISC-V architecture has
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made great headway in a short period of time. But it is not just
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our strengths and exciting new areas that have seen attention this
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cycle; there are also some parts of the system that are frequently
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perceived as unchanging infrastructure that have received
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attention and improvements, with <tt>truss</tt> and
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(<tt>k</tt>)<tt>gdb</tt> receiving significant overhauls, new
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implementations for the man page tools being brought in, the
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website receiving a new skin, and a brand new infrastructure for
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translating documentation that greatly lowers the barrier to
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entry.</p>
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<p>The deadline for submissions covering the period from October
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to December 2015 is January 7, 2016.</p>
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<p>Nonetheless, despite its record length, this report does
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not and cannot cover all of the work being done on &os; throughout
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the reporting period — there are many bug fixes too minor to
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mention here, and developers too busy working on the next project
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to write up an entry for the previous project. It is not just the
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developers committing to Subversion that comprise the ongoing
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activities of &os;, but also the users testing unreleased
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code or reporting bugs in released code, and participants on the
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mailing lists and forums helping each other solve their problems.
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Even the chats on IRC that wander far from the stated topic of a
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channel contribute to the community around &os;; it is that
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community whose effectiveness and helpfulness is a key component
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of the effectiveness and usefulness of &os; itself. Not just to
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the developers listed in this report, but to everyone in the
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community, thank you for making &os; a great operating system.</p>
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<p><i>—Ben Kaduk</i></p>
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<p><hr /></p>
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<p>Please submit status reports for the fourth quarter of 2015
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(from October to December) by January 7, 2016.</p>
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