From 29dd72779e7203cb3313ee627047d3e515e2515e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benjamin Kaduk Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2015 17:28:02 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add an introduction for the 2015Q3 report Discussed with: wblock --- .../news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml | 61 ++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 51 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml index 7ce3aedaca..c82992b1f8 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml @@ -20,19 +20,60 @@ an announcement email is sent to the &os;-Announce mailing list.

- This report covers &os;-related projects between July and - September 2015. This is the third of four reports planned for - 2015.

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The third quarter of 2015, from July to September, was + again a period of busy activity for &os;: for the second quarter + in a row we have the largest report yet published.

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The third quarter of 2015 was another productive quarter for - the &os; project and community. [...]

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The Foundation continues to play a strong role, bringing + both a developer and evangelist presence to conferences, funding + much of the hardware that the cluster administration team uses to + keep things running, and sponsoring many development projects for + &os;. This quarter we also hear from some of the student projects + funded by Google Summer of Code 2015, ranging a wide gamut from + the bootloader to additional ARM support, but also at a range of + completion status. Some of the GSoC output is in the tree + already, but others could benefit from additional attention to + help out our budding new contributors as their schedules fill with + the return to classes.

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Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work!

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ZFS and the network stack continue to be strong areas for + &os;, with both receiving active maintenance and feature + improvements during this quarter. Substantial work continues on + arm64, potentially putting it on the path toward a promotion to + Tier-1 status, and a new port to the RISC-V architecture has + made great headway in a short period of time. But it is not just + our strengths and exciting new areas that have seen attention this + cycle; there are also some parts of the system that are frequently + perceived as unchanging infrastructure that have received + attention and improvements, with truss and + (k)gdb receiving significant overhauls, new + implementations for the man page tools being brought in, the + website receiving a new skin, and a brand new infrastructure for + translating documentation that greatly lowers the barrier to + entry.

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The deadline for submissions covering the period from October - to December 2015 is January 7, 2016.

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Nonetheless, despite its record length, this report does + not and cannot cover all of the work being done on &os; throughout + the reporting period — there are many bug fixes too minor to + mention here, and developers too busy working on the next project + to write up an entry for the previous project. It is not just the + developers committing to Subversion that comprise the ongoing + activities of &os;, but also the users testing unreleased + code or reporting bugs in released code, and participants on the + mailing lists and forums helping each other solve their problems. + Even the chats on IRC that wander far from the stated topic of a + channel contribute to the community around &os;; it is that + community whose effectiveness and helpfulness is a key component + of the effectiveness and usefulness of &os; itself. Not just to + the developers listed in this report, but to everyone in the + community, thank you for making &os; a great operating system.

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—Ben Kaduk

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Please submit status reports for the fourth quarter of 2015 + (from October to December) by January 7, 2016.