From 4b7fc1cc14b079603edeeabaf405ee06defd0803 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Gerzo Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 09:43:47 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] - grammar and language fixes [1] - add re@ status report [2] Submitted by: bjk@, wblock@, manolis@ [1] Submitted by: kensmith@ [2] --- en/news/status/report-2011-07-2011-09.xml | 165 +++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 97 insertions(+), 68 deletions(-) diff --git a/en/news/status/report-2011-07-2011-09.xml b/en/news/status/report-2011-07-2011-09.xml index 0a67db59d1..f406598e42 100644 --- a/en/news/status/report-2011-07-2011-09.xml +++ b/en/news/status/report-2011-07-2011-09.xml @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ - + July-September @@ -15,11 +15,12 @@ Status Report//EN"

This report covers &os;-related projects between July and September 2011. It is the third of the four reports planned for 2011. - This quarter was mainly devoted to polishing the stuff for the next - major version of &os;, 9.0, which is to be released in September.

+ This quarter was mainly devoted to polishing the bits for the next + major version of &os;, 9.0, which is to be released by then end + of this year.

Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report - contains 27 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.

+ contains 28 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.

Please note that the deadline for submissions covering the period between October and December 2011 is January 15th, 2012.

@@ -105,13 +106,13 @@ Status Report//EN"

We tried to re-activate committers who did not contribute for some time but most of them are currently unable to free up enough time. We hope to gain fresh contributor blood as we are getting - occasional reports about bugs and grammar in the german + occasional reports about bugs and grammar in the German translation.

Submit grammar, spelling or other errors you find in the - german documents and the website + German documents and the website Translate more articles and other open handbook sections (especially the new chapter about the new &os; @@ -151,13 +152,13 @@ Status Report//EN"

The www/ja and doc/ja_JP.eucJP/books/handbook subtrees have constantly been updated since the last report.

-

www/ja: During this period, many part of outdated contents in +

www/ja: During this period, many areas of outdated content in the www/ja subtree were updated to the latest versions in the - English counterpart. The Japanese version of 8.2R release + English counterparts. The Japanese version of 8.2R release announcement was added and the upcoming 9.0R announcement will be translated in a timely manner.

-

Handbook: Japanese "kernelconfig" section finally caught up with +

Handbook: The Japanese "kernelconfig" section finally caught up with the original English version. The next targets are "cutting-edge" and new installer section.

@@ -200,10 +201,10 @@ Status Report//EN" -

The ports tree slowly moves up closer to 23,000. The PR count +

The ports tree slowly moves up closer to the 23,000 mark. The PR count still remains at about 1000.

-

In Q2 we added 4 new committers, took in 6 commit bit for safe +

In Q2 we added 4 new committers, but took in 6 commit bits for safe keeping.

The Ports Management team have been running -exp runs on an @@ -215,12 +216,12 @@ Status Report//EN"

  • Python update
  • Boost updates
  • Gtk3 updates
    • -
  • Clang testing
    • +
  • clang testing
  • pkgng testing
  • testing ruby19
    • -
  • set default fortran to lang/gcc46
    • +
  • setting the default fortran to lang/gcc46
  • setting apache22 as default
    • -
  • set default LDFLAGS in CONFIGURE_ENV
    • +
  • setting the default LDFLAGS in CONFIGURE_ENV

    • Work continues to refine the new build master pointyhat-west. An @@ -248,7 +249,7 @@ Status Report//EN"

    linimon is working on a set of scripts to more quickly produce pre-configured PXEboot images for package build nodes.

    -

    The update of FreeBSD_version in param.h to 1000000 proved very +

    The update of __FreeBSD_version in param.h to 1000000 proved very disruptive to the ports tree, triggering lots of bad assumption in code that interpreted it as &os; 1. A great deal of work has gone into identifying the instances of broken code and fixing and @@ -357,15 +358,15 @@ Status Report//EN"

    ZFSguru is a newly designed Network Attached Storage operating - system, much like FreeNAS is. The difference is that ZFSguru + system, much like FreeNAS. The difference is that ZFSguru focuses heavily on ZFS and user friendly operation, and uses a full &os; distribution with no elements stripped down. This allows - for people new to &os; and UNIX in general to access the power + people new to &os; and UNIX in general to access the power of ZFS, while still allowing more advanced users to tweak their NAS - with additional functionality and use it as normal &os; + with additional functionality and use it as a normal &os; distribution.

    -

    Started little over a year ago, the ZFSguru project is making +

    Started a little over a year ago, the ZFSguru project is making good progress. It should already be one of the most user friendly distributions focused on ZFS, and sports some very unique features. The advanced ZFS benchmarking and convenient Root-on-ZFS @@ -417,7 +418,7 @@ Status Report//EN" immediately allocating and deallocating kernel virtual memory. This results in a gain in terms of performances (there is a relatively high cost in the approach adopted until now), and also in terms of - reduction of fragmentation (VM system uses a first-fit policy of + reduction of fragmentation (the VM system uses a first-fit policy of allocation so there is room for improvements).

    @@ -507,7 +508,7 @@ Status Report//EN" &os; - Wiki + Wiki Github page @@ -529,10 +530,10 @@ Status Report//EN" never change the actual encoding, and the detection failbacks to locale.
  • Pavel Timofeev provided a full Russian translation of the - catalog. Thanks him.
    • + catalog. Thanks to him.
  • Now nvi-iconv is able to be compiled with widechar only and - without iconv (inspired by a user on FreeBSDChina.org). In such - case, it only supports your locale.
    • + without iconv (inspired by a user on FreeBSDChina.org). In + that case, it only supports your locale. @@ -570,14 +571,14 @@ Status Report//EN" PACKETpro family of embedded processors.

    The chip includes two Power Architecture PPC465 processor cores, - which are compliant with Book-E specification of the architecture, + which are compliant with the Book-E specification of the architecture, and a number of integrated peripherals.

    This work is extending current Book-E support in &os; towards - PPC4xx processors variation along with device drivers for + PPC4xx processor variants along with device drivers for integrated peripherials.

    -

    Following drivers has been created since last report:

    +

    The following drivers have been created since the last report: