From 55075cf751bcc47022123c3acf5db4ec6fdbb571 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benjamin Kaduk Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2017 05:29:04 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Editing pass through the 2016Q4 report --- .../news/status/report-2016-10-2016-12.xml | 79 ++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-) diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-10-2016-12.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-10-2016-12.xml index d917a4081a..c4f9bf8bde 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-10-2016-12.xml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-10-2016-12.xml @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@

&os;/EC2 is now part of the regular &os; release build, with snapshots and releases being automatically uploaded and - copied to all available regions. Due to legal restrictions + copied to all available regions. Due to legal restrictions, this does not currently include the GovCloud or China (Beijing) regions; anyone wishing to use &os; in those regions is encouraged to contact the author.

@@ -111,11 +111,11 @@

The AWS Marketplace reports that approximately 800 users are running roughly 2000 &os; EC2 instances. This does not count the likely significantly larger number of EC2 instances - launched "directly" through the EC2 API and Console, but at + launched "directly" through the EC2 API and Console, but at least places a lower bound on usage.

-

&os; 11.0-RELEASE shipped with support for the "enhanced - networking" support in EC2 C3, C4, R3, I2, D2, and M4 +

&os; 11.0-RELEASE shipped with support for the "enhanced + networking" support in EC2 C3, C4, R3, I2, D2, and M4 (excluding m4.16xlarge) instances. This provides significantly higher network performance than the virtual networking available on older EC2 instances and with older @@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ &os;/EC2 configuration. Continue ongoing interoperability testing between &os;'s - NFS client and Amazon Elastic File System + NFS client and the Amazon Elastic File System (NFS-as-a-service). @@ -221,11 +221,11 @@ GEOM-based RAID arrays? Is such information even exported through sysctl? - Prometheus uses a pretty nifty format for exporting + Prometheus uses a rather clever format for exporting histograms. Histograms are useful for expressing the amount of time taken to complete certain events (for example, disk operations). Would it be possible to add histograms as native - datatypes to sysctl? If so, is there any chance they can be + data types to sysctl? If so, is there any chance they can be implemented without picking up any kernel locks? @@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ and releases. Currently only 11.0-RELEASE-amd64 gets tested via an automated Jenkins job. - As every commit to libarchive may influence the build + As every commit to libarchive may influence the build process of &os; ports, the ability to trigger a (semi-)automated exp-run for the ports tree would be great. @@ -362,6 +362,10 @@ +

This project provides native virtualized interfaces + for &os; systems running on Hyper-V virtualization, improving + on the performance of traditional emulated evices.

+

Per-ring polling, multi-packet RNDIS messages, and system RSS integration have been implemented, further optimizing the throughput and latency of the Hyper-V network driver.

@@ -413,7 +417,7 @@ -

The port has been updated to GDB 7.12.

+

The devel/gdb port has been updated to GDB 7.12.

7.12 includes additional fixes related to tracing vfork()s. Some of these fixes depend on changes to @@ -633,9 +637,9 @@ Apply the changes discussed in D8416 (simplify the MASTER_SITES macro in port - Makefiles) + Makefiles). - Commit the stable panel plugins + Commit the stable panel plugins. @@ -709,7 +713,7 @@ - Portions of this work were sponsored by DARPA/AFRL. + DARPA/AFRL (in part) @@ -809,13 +813,13 @@

  • The European Court of Justice's "Right to be Forgotten" only applies to search engines, and the &os; - project is not one of those, so need not take any + project is not one of those, so it need not take any action.
  • Core is following closely discussions within the LLVM - project regarding a change of license which if implemented, + project regarding a change of license which, if implemented, might require an audit of the entire ports tree to discover all packages that contain binaries linked against libc++ and ensure that they are licensed compatibly with LLVM. @@ -975,7 +979,7 @@

    Object Storage

    Ceph provides seamless access to objects using native - language bindings or radosgw, a REST interface that is + language bindings or radosgw, a REST interface that is compatible with applications written for S3 and Swift.

    • @@ -1001,11 +1005,11 @@ that are running ZFS. User stations would be running bhyve on RBD disks that are stored in Ceph.

    -

    The &os; build will build most of the tools in Ceph. Note +

    The &os; build includes most of the tools in Ceph. Note that the RBD-dependent items will not work, since &os; does not have RBD (yet).

    -

    Most notable progress since the last report:

    +

    The most notable progress since the last report:

    The Foundation team worked on a technology roadmap for @@ -1685,7 +1688,7 @@ reliable releases over the last few years.

    Last quarter, our full-time staff member worked with the - &os; Release Engineering and Security Teams to finalize the + &os; Release Engineering and Security Teams to finalize 11.0-RELEASE. He also added support for the powerpcspe architecture to the 12-CURRENT snapshot builds, and continued work on packaging the base system with pkg(8). He @@ -1820,7 +1823,7 @@ facilitate collaboration between developers and commercial users. This all helps provide a healthy ecosystem. We support the non-&os; events to promote and raise awareness - about &os;, to increase the use of &os; in different + of &os;, to increase the use of &os; in different applications, and to recruit more contributors to the Project.