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- Start building the 2014Q1 status report with a report on Chromium

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XMLDOCS+= report-2013-07-2013-09
XMLDOCS+= report-2013-09-devsummit
XMLDOCS+= report-2013-10-2013-12
XMLDOCS+= report-2014-01-2014-03
XSLT.DEFAULT= report.xsl

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE report PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD FreeBSD XML Database for Status Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/share/xml/statusreport.dtd" >
<!-- $FreeBSD$ -->
<report>
<date>
<month>January-March</month>
<year>2014</year>
</date>
<section>
<title>Introduction</title>
<p>This report covers &os;-related projects between January and
March 2014. This is the first of four reports planned for 2014.</p>
<!-- XXX: Add introduction -->
<!-- XXX: Keep the number of entries updated -->
<p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report
contains 1 entry and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
<p>The deadline for submissions covering between April and
June 2014 is July 7th, 2014.</p>
</section>
<category>
<name>ports</name>
<description>Ports</description>
</category>
<project cat='ports'>
<title>Chromium</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>Chromium on &os; Team</name>
<email>freebsd-chromium@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://www.chromium.org/Home">Chromium website</url>
<url href="https://github.com/gliaskos/freebsd-chromium">Development repository on GitHub</url>
<url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/Chromium">Chromium on &os; wiki</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>Over the last four years the Chromium team has been busy with
porting Chromium to &os;. This involves patching the browser so
that it runs on &os;, tracking and documenting security updates,
and merging patches back upstream.</p>
<p>While there are already several browsers available for &os;,
advantages of Chromium are:</p>
<ul>
<li>Quick response from upstream to security issues, resulting
in approximately bi-weekly updates.</li>
<li>A testbed for security features of &os;, like Capsicum.
While support for this capability and sandbox framework is
currently not included in the browser, a proof-of-concept
implementation for an early version of Chromium was realized
within a single weekend.</li>
</ul>
<p>George Liaskos and &a.rene; are currently busy with submitting
the remaining patches specific to &os; back upstream. Apart from
making future updates easier, it sometimes also improves the
overall code quality.</p>
<p>&a.jonathan; recently updated the Capsicum patches for Chromium
and is talking to upstream about them.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Advocate &os;. While patches are getting accepted by both
humans and bots, it is not an official platform so attitude varies
from developer to developer. While &a.rene; thinks it is a bit
early, it might be fruitful to investigate what is required to
make &os; (and possibly OpenBSD) an official platform in terms
of both hardware and procedures.</task>
<task>If you feel comfortable with large source trees, you can try
to build the Git version of Chromium on &os;. If you are also
comfortable with signing Googles Contributor License Agreement,
you can join testing and submitting patches upstream.</task>
</help>
</project>
</report>