Make a second editing pass through the 2017Q2 status report

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 	started life many years ago as a project by Gleb Kurtsou
 	(gleb).  Kirk McKusick (mckusick) then picked up and updated
 	the patch, and acted as a flag-waver.  Feedback, suggestions,
-	and discussions were carried by Ed Maste (emaste), John
+	and discussions were carried out by Ed Maste (emaste), John
 	Baldwin (jhb), Jilles Tjoelker (jilles), and Rick Macklem
 	(rmacklem).  Kris Moore (kris) performed an initial ports
 	investigation followed by an exp-run by Antoine Brodin
@ -249,7 +249,7 @@
    <body>
      <p>FRRouting (FRR), a Quagga fork, is an IP routing protocol
 	suite for Linux and Unix platforms which includes protocol
-	daemons for BGP, IS-IS, OSPF and RIP (LPD and PIM support needs to be
+	daemons for BGP, IS-IS, OSPF and RIP (LPD and PIM support need to be
 	fixed on &os;).  FRR is a Linux Foundation Collaborative
 	Project with contributors including 6WIND, Architecture
 	Technology Corporation, Big Switch Networks, Cumulus Networks,
@ -1111,10 +1111,10 @@
 	  but it does work.</li>
 	<li><tt>rbd-ggate</tt> is available to create a Ceph
-	  <tt>rdb</tt> backed device.  <tt>rbd-ggate</tt> was
+	  <tt>rbd</tt> backed device.  <tt>rbd-ggate</tt> was
 	  submitted by Mykola Golub.  It works in a rather simple
-	  fashion: once a cluster is functioning, <tt>rdb
+	  fashion: once a cluster is functioning, <tt>rbd
-	  import</tt> and <tt>rdb-gate map</tt> are used to create
+	  import</tt> and <tt>rbd-ggate map</tt> are used to create
 	  <tt>ggate</tt>-like devices backed by the Ceph cluster.</li>
      </ul>
@ -1262,7 +1262,7 @@
    <body>
      <p>Work proceeds to finalize the process of bringing support
-	for the Marvell Armada38x platform into &os;-HEAD.</p>
+	for the Marvell Armada38x platform into &os; head.</p>
      <p>The most important parts of the recent effort are:</p>
@ -1433,7 +1433,7 @@
 	filesystems better.  In addition to the KDE sysadmins, we
 	would also like to extend our thanks to Adriaan de Groot, who
 	is both a KDE committer and part of our KDE on &os; team, for
-	spearheading the efforts.</p>
+	spearheading these efforts.</p>
      <p>The following big updates landed in the ports tree this
 	quarter:</p>
@ -1633,8 +1633,8 @@
 	first time.  The PR count is currently just under 2,500, with
 	almost 600 of them unassigned.  This quarter saw almost 7,400
 	commits from 171 committers.  More PRs got closed this
-	quarter, but also more PRs got sent in, both of which are good
+	quarter than last quarter, but also more PRs got sent in,
-	to see.</p>
+	both of which are good to see.</p>
      <p>Over the past three months, we welcomed four new committers:
 	Bradley T.  Hughes (bhughes@), Danilo G. Baio (dbaio@), Jochen
@ -1643,9 +1643,9 @@
 	bf@, was taken in for safekeeping after a long period of
 	inactivity.</p>
-      <p>On the management side, the Port Management Team welcomed
+      <p>On the management side, the Ports Management Team welcomed
 	back bapt@, who is working on several new features for the
-	Ports Tree.  The Port Management Team also had its annual
+	Ports Tree.  The Ports Management Team also had its annual
 	real-life meeting during BSDCan.</p>
      <p>On the infrastructure side, three new <tt>USES</tt> values
@ -1654,14 +1654,14 @@
      <ul>
 	<li><tt>cargo</tt>, to ease the porting of Rust packages or
 	  binaries using the <tt>cargo</tt> command (also covered
-	  separately in this report).</li>
+	  separately in this report)</li>
 	<li><tt>groff</tt>, to handle a dependency on the
 	  <tt>groff</tt> document formatting system, that has been
-	  removed from the base system for &os; 12.</li>
+	  removed from the base system for &os; 12</li>
 	<li><tt>meson</tt>, to provide support for projects based on
-	  Meson.</li>
+	  Meson</li>
      </ul>
      <p>The default version of PostgreSQL switched from 9.3 to 9.5,
@ -1673,7 +1673,7 @@
 	54.0.1, and Chromium 59.0.3071.115.</p>
      <p>Behind the scenes, antoine@ ran 36 exp-runs to test version
-	updates, making CRAN ports platform-independent, test installing
+	updates, make the CRAN ports platform-independent, test installing
 	bsdgrep(1) as <tt>/usr/bin/grep</tt>, test LLVM updates, test
 	the ino64 project, and perform Makefile cleanups.</p>
    </body>
@ -1757,7 +1757,7 @@
      <p>The kernel now uses <tt>crc32c</tt> instructions where
 	appropriate.  These are an optional set of instructions to
-	perform <tt>crc32c</tt> quickly without using a lookup
+	perform <tt>crc32c</tt> checksumming quickly without using a lookup
 	table.c</p>
      <p>The <tt>VM_MEMATTR_WRITE_THROUGH</tt> memory attribute is
@ -2040,13 +2040,13 @@
      <p>The default mode for C is now <tt>-std=gnu11</tt> instead of
 	<tt>-std=gnu89</tt>.  The C++ front end has full C++14
-	language support including C++14 variable templates, C++14
+	language support, including C++14 variable templates, C++14
 	aggregates with non-static data member initializers, C++14
 	extended <tt>constexpr</tt>, and more.  The Standard C++
 	Library (libstdc++) has full C++11 support and experimental
 	full C++14 support.  It uses a new ABI by default.</p>
-      <p>The lang/gcc port now is a meta-port that pulls in the
+      <p>The <tt>lang/gcc</tt> port now is a meta-port that pulls in the
 	respective <tt>lang/gccX</tt> port (based on the setting of
 	<tt>$GCC_DEFAULT</tt>) and defines <tt>gcc</tt>, <tt>g++</tt>,
 	and <tt>gfortran</tt> as symlinks to the respective versioned
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    <links>
      <url href="https://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/">FreeBSD Foundation Website</url>
-      <url href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/&os;-Foundation-Q2-2017-Update.pdf">Quarterly Newsletter</url>
+      <url href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/FreeBSD-Foundation-Q2-2017-Update.pdf">FreeBSD Foundation Quarterly Newsletter</url>
    </links>
    <body>
      <p>Last quarter the Foundation was busy supporting the &os;
 	Project in so many ways!  We brought on two interns from the
 	University of Waterloo who were extremely productive, from
-	working on a continuous integration project, to adding MSDOS
+	working on a continuous integration project to adding MSDOS
 	FAT filesystem support to <tt>makefs</tt>.  We continued
 	helping to accelerate OS changes with our internal staff of
 	software developers, as well as funding outside software
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 	world!</p>
      <p>Below, you can read some of the highlights from our Q2
-	newsletter and find writeups throughout this status report
+	newsletter, and find writeups throughout this status report
 	from Foundation staff members including Ed Maste, Kostik
 	Belousov, and Glen Barber.  Don't forget, we are 100%
 	funded by donations.  Please take a moment to <a
@ -2213,7 +2213,7 @@
      <p>Q2 Development Projects Summary</p>
-      <p>Our hard work continues into the 2nd quarter on 2017.
+      <p>Our hard work continues into the 2nd quarter of 2017.
 	Please take a look at the highlights from our more recent
 	Development Projects summaries.</p>
@ -2245,7 +2245,7 @@
      <p>One of the ways the Foundation supports &os; is by
 	providing development grants for work on individual
 	projects.  These allow developers to propose projects they
-	would like to undertake to improve &os;, and request funding
+	would like to undertake to improve &os; and request funding
 	to perform that work.  The Foundation is always willing to
 	receive proposals, but will occasionally issue a call for
 	proposals to highlight specific areas of focus and to be
@ -2266,7 +2266,7 @@
 	<li>New test cases, improved test infrastructure, and
 	  quality assurance</li>
-	<li>Improved software development tools.</li>
+	<li>Improved software development tools</li>
 	<li>Projects to improve community collaboration and
 	  communication</li>
@ -2325,8 +2325,8 @@
 	providing &os; education and training, and recruiting more
 	contributors to the Project.  We can only provide the above
 	support with your donations, and we need your help to
-	connect us with your companies.  Please consider alerting
+	connect us with your companies.  Please consider notifying
-	your organization to our new Partnership Program and helping
+	your organization about our new Partnership Program and helping
 	to connect us with the appropriate contacts at your
 	company.</p>
@ -2347,9 +2347,7 @@
 	<li>Improve and support &os; infrastructure</li>
      </ul>
-      <p>We need your support to continue improving &os;.  You can
+      <p>We need your support to continue improving &os;.</p>
 	help by donating today and sharing our new Partnership
 	Program with your company.</p>
      <p>Q2 2017 Conference Recaps</p>
@ -2374,7 +2372,7 @@
      <p>OSCON 2017 (contributed by Ed Maste)</p>
      <p>I represented the FreeBSD Foundation at OSCON 2017, which took place
-	May 8-11, 2017, in Austin, TX.  <a
+	May 8-11, 2017, in Austin, TX: <a
 	  href="https://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/oscon-tx">https://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/oscon-tx</a>.</p>
      <p>The Foundation booth was also staffed by &os; committer
@ -2396,8 +2394,8 @@
      <p>In mid-May I presented at Rootconf 2017 in Bangalore.
 	Rootconf is India's principal conference where systems and
-	operations engineers share real world knowledge about
+	operations engineers share real-world knowledge about
-	building reliable systems.  <a
+	building reliable systems: <a
 	  href="https://rootconf.in/2017/">https://rootconf.in/2017/</a>.</p>
      <p>As always, it was interesting to hear the difficulties
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 	code.  People that organise conferences or user groups; who
 	are prominent supporters on social media; who triage bug
 	reports and who test changes; and many others who contribute
-	in various ways, are deserving of recognition of the support
+	in various ways, are deserving of recognition for the support
 	that they give to the Project.  Core hopes that this will both
 	encourage more people to volunteer their time and effort on
-	behalf of the project, and encourage those who do to stick
+	behalf of the Project, and encourage those who already do to stick
 	with the Project, if not become more deeply involved.</p>
      <p>The naming for the new group of non-committer Project members
@ -2535,7 +2533,7 @@
 	took the view that since what they were offerring was formal
 	Project Membership, then that was the right thing to call it.
 	Committers thus become those Project Members with access to
-	commit to the Project's Code repositories.  Project Members
+	commit to the Project's code repositories.  Project Members
 	receive an @FreeBSD.org e-mail address, access to various
 	Project hardware, access to internal mailing lists and other
 	communications channels, and invitations to attend Developer
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 	achieve the desired result.</p>
      <p>The very first FCP &mdash; FCP 0 &mdash; describes the
-	process itself.  At the time of writing, Core is voting on
+	process itself.  At the time of this writing, Core is voting on
 	accepting the initial document, which can be viewed in the
-	Projects <a
+	Project's <a
 	  href="https://github.com/freebsd/fcp/blob/master/fcp-0000.md">Github
 	repository</a>.  Two new mailing lists have been created:
 	fcp@FreeBSD.org is the channel for receiving notifications of
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      <p>Core is delighted to announce that Gordon Tetlow has joined
 	the Security Officer team, and will be working on managing the
-	Secteam caseload, freeing up other members to concentrate on
+	Security Team caseload, freeing up other members to concentrate on
 	the more technical aspects of vulnerability remediation.  In
-	addition, Ed Maste has joined secteam and is available to
+	addition, Ed Maste has joined the Security Team and is available to
 	assist the Security Officers where necessary.</p>
      <p>Although Florian Smeets had to step down, the postmaster team
-	has now recruited three new members and is now back up to
+	has recruited three new members and is now back up to
 	strength.</p>
      <p>Considering the desirability of a number of fixes that have
@ -2597,27 +2595,27 @@
 	commit bits.  Please welcome:</p>
      <ul>
-	<li>Vladimir Kondratyev</li>
+	<li>Vladimir Kondratyev (wulf@)</li>
-	<li>Ryan Libby</li>
+	<li>Ryan Libby (rlibby@)</li>
-	<li>Kyle Evans</li>
+	<li>Kyle Evans (kevans@)</li>
      </ul>
      <p>Also, during this quarter, we had one person give up their
 	commit bit:</p>
      <ul>
-	<li>Jordan Hubbard</li>
+	<li>Jordan Hubbard (jkh@)</li>
      </ul>
      <p>It is always unsettling when one of the Project's founding
 	members decides to move on, but Jordan's interests have
-	migrated away from &os; related projects and he has decided to
+	migrated away from &os;-related projects and he has decided to
 	hang up his bit once and for all.</p>
      <p>Core would like to thank NTTA (formerly Verio) for providing
-	hosting for a cvsup mirror for many years, and also for their
+	hosting for a <tt>cvsup</tt> mirror for many years, and also for their
 	kind offer to provide ongoing hosting for a machine in their
 	Seattle facility.  Since we have no need for additional North
 	America hosting, we have declined their offer.</p>
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 	all copyright holders before changing any remaining 4-clause
 	licensing.</p>
-      <p>Core, along with Secteam, are monitoring developments
+      <p>Core, along with the Security Team, are monitoring developments
 	concerning the &quot;Stack Clash&quot; vulnerability that hit
 	the headlines during June.  Changes to the stack-guard
-	mitigation system are underway as a consequence of the
+	mitigation system are underway as a response to the
 	proof-of-concept published by Qualys.</p>
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