Add core team status report submitted by m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk.
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<project cat='team'>
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<title>The &os; Core Team</title>
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<contact>
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<person>
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<name>&os; Core Team</name>
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<email>core@FreeBSD.org</email>
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<body>
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<p>The highlight of Core's second quarter has been the
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regular biennial election of a new Core team. Core would like
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to thank Dag-Erling Smøgrav and Glen Barber for running
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the vote. Despite an initially slow uptake on nominations,
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fourteen candidates eventually stood, including four incumbent
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members of core. The ninth &os; Core team will be:</p>
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<li>John Baldwin</li>
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<li>Baptiste Daroussin</li>
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<li>Allan Jude</li>
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<li>Ed Maste</li>
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<li>Kris Moore</li>
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<li>George V. Neville-Neil</li>
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<li>Benedict Reuschling</li>
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<li>Benno Rice</li>
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<li>Hiroki Sato</li>
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<p>The new Core Team would like to thank the departing members
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for their many years of service. Members stepping down
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are:</p>
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<li>Gavin Atkinson</li>
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<li>Gleb Smirnoff</li>
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<li>David Chisnall</li>
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<li>Robert Watson</li>
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<li>Peter Wemm</li>
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<p>The second most notable achievement this quarter was the
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successful conclusion of an issue that had been on Core's
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agenda for many years. With the creation of <a
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href="https://planet.freebsd.org/">planet.freebsd.org</a>,
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the &os; Project finally has an official blog aggregation
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service.</p>
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<p>Core spent a significant amount of time reviewing licensing
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and ensuring that the &os; source remains unencumbered by
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onerous license terms. This quarter involved approving Adrian
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Chadd's plan to import GPLv2 licensed code, allowing
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<tt>bwn(4)</tt> to be built as a loadable module with support
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for 802.11n networking. This required confirmation that the
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license terms on the latest dummynet AQM patches were
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acceptable and that its variant on the BSD 2-clause license is
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suitable for use in the &os; base system.</p>
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<p>Core applied for, and received, a project-wide license for
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the use of the JetBrains static analysis tool suite, at the
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behest of Mathieu Previot.</p>
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<p>Another of Core's important functions is to ensure good
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relations amongst developers. To that end, members of Core
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provided oversight over the backing-out of disputed
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<tt>blacklistd</tt> related patches to OpenSSH, and acted to
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smooth over ruffled tempers.</p>
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<p>This quarter saw the usual quota of gentle reminders to avoid
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intemperate language and other counter-productive behavior.
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Core had to take immediate action about death threats
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appearing on some of the mailing lists. The culprit was
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immediately banned from the mailing lists and reported to
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their email service provider. That person will be similarly
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removed should they be identified as having rejoined under a
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different alias.</p>
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<p>Other activities included:</p>
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<li>Working with university authorities in an attempt to get
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documentation certifying that a prospective GSoC student was
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legally allowed to work on &os; code as a foreigner enrolled
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at a USA university. This issue was eventually solved by
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the student returning home for the summer and working from
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there.</li>
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<li>Issuing guidance on policy around forced commits, or
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trivial changes used as a means of correcting a commit
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message. In these cases, the correct approach is to revert
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the commit and re-commit with the correct message. This
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ensures the continuing usefulness of
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<tt>svn blame</tt>.</li>
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<li>Approving a delay to the planned introduction of packaged
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base and confirming that this did not require any change to
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the new support policies to be introduced with
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11.0-RELEASE.</li>
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<p>During this quarter, four new commit bits were awarded and
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none were taken in. Please welcome Emmanuel Vadot, Landon
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Fuller, Mike Karels, and Eric Badger as new src committers.
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Yes, that is the same Mike Karels who was once a member of the
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CSRG at Berkeley and co-author of <i>The Design and
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Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System</i>.</p>
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</report>
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