From 585ceaf0438d408e24461d2b1f688cd243a7c6a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Warren Block Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 01:51:36 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Grammer and spalling foxes. --- .../news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml | 211 +++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 105 insertions(+), 106 deletions(-) diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml index b21d871c68..c189afcd56 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ 2014.

The fourth quarter of 2014 included a number of significant improvements to the &os; - system, in particular in compatibility with other systems. This included + system. In particular, compatibility with other systems was enhanced. This included significant improvements to the Linux compatibility layer, used to run Linux binaries on &os;, and the port of WINE, used to run Windows applications. Hypervisor support improved, with &os; gaining the ability @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ - Process management + Process Management @@ -163,9 +163,9 @@ management last quarter.

-

The Reaper facility, to allow a process to reliably track the - running and exiting state of the whole subtree of the processes, - was added. It is intended to improve tools like timeout(1) or +

The Reaper facility was added, allowing a process to reliably track the + running and exiting state of the whole subtree of the processes. + It is intended to improve tools like timeout(1) or poudriere, by making it impossible for the runaway grandchild to escape the controlling process. The feature was designed based on similar facilities in DragonFlyBSD and Linux, with some @@ -191,17 +191,17 @@ data are on stable storage, to minimize damage of failed resume.

-

The code stressed some parts of the system and has lead to - discovery of a numbers of bugs in different areas, - including process management, buffer cache and syscall - handlers. The bugs were fixed, fixes and the features commmitted +

The code stressed some parts of the system and has led to + discovery of a number of bugs in different areas, + including process management, buffer cache, and syscall + handlers. The bugs were fixed, and the fixes and features commmitted by a series culminating in r275745.

During the work described above, it was noted that process spinlock duties are significantly overloaded (the same is true for the process lock). The spinlock - was split into per-feature locks, in r275121. Also, as result, it - was possible to eliminate recursion on it, in r275372.

+ was split into per-feature locks in r275121. As result, it + was also possible to eliminate recursion on it in r275372.

The FreeBSD Foundation @@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ - Creating Vagrant images with Packer + Creating Vagrant Images with Packer @@ -271,14 +271,14 @@ create and configure lightweight, reproducible, and portable development environments.

-

To get started clone the Git repo and follow the directions in +

To get started, clone the Git repo and follow the directions in the README. More information is available from the Packer and Vagrant websites.

 - pkg(8) + <tt>pkg(8)</tt> @@ -305,9 +305,9 @@

An important part of the development direction for the 1.4 - release has been done on stabilizing the existing features, and + release was stabilizing the existing features and improving the pkg(8) experience on small/embedded - machines (reduce memory usage, speed up operations).

+ machines (reducing memory usage and speeding up operations).

pkg(8) is not only the &os; Package Manager, but also the Package Manager for DragonflyBSD. Support has been @@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ - mandoc(1) support + <tt>mandoc(1)</tt> Support @@ -375,8 +375,8 @@ format manual pages by default, then fall back to groff(1) if it fails.

-

This change also fixes an issue with FreeBSD man(1) - command not able to properly deal with ".so" in gzipped manual +

This change also fixes an issue with the &os; man(1) + command not being able to properly deal with ".so" in gzipped manual pages.

The documentation team has spent a lot of time fixing issues @@ -386,12 +386,12 @@

Most manual pages with remaining issues are from contrib/, for which changes should be reported and fixed upstream.

-

The "manlint" target has also been switch to use mandoc +

The "manlint" target has also been switched to use mandoc -Tlint, which results in the target being more useful when working on manual pages.

-

Some groff(1) vs mandoc(1) formatting - differencies have been spotted and reported to mandoc's upstream +

Some groff(1) versus mandoc(1) formatting + differences have been spotted and reported to mandoc's upstream developers.

@@ -401,8 +401,8 @@ mandoc(1).

-

Figure out a way to detect non mandoc(1) unfriendly - manpages from ports and create catpages with groff(1) +

Figure out a way to detect mandoc(1)-unfriendly + manpages in ports and create catpages with groff(1) for them.

 @@ -412,7 +412,7 @@ - External toolchain + External Toolchain @@ -444,12 +444,12 @@

The main goal of the external toolchain project is to be able - to build world and kernel with non default toolchain. It can be + to build world and kernel with non-default toolchain. It can be helpful to:

  • Prepare a migration to a newer version of toolchain components.
  • Port &os; to a new architecture
    • -
  • Upgrade from a &os; that ships with GCC 4.2 to a version that ship with clang 3.5+ (which need a more modern toolchain than GCC 4.2 to bootstrap).
    • +
  • Upgrade from a &os; that ships with GCC 4.2 to a version that ships with clang 3.5+ (which needs a more modern toolchain than GCC 4.2 to bootstrap).

@@ -480,7 +480,7 @@

Those packages will depend on special versions of GCC (minimalistic cross-built ready GCC) and on binutils. To use - them run: make CROSS_TOOLCHAIN=powerpc64-gcc TARGET=powerpc + them, run: make CROSS_TOOLCHAIN=powerpc64-gcc TARGET=powerpc TARGET_ARCH=powerpc64

As a result of this effort, it has been possible to @@ -504,7 +504,7 @@ - Timer function support for Linuxulator + Timer Function Support for Linuxulator @@ -520,12 +520,12 @@

Since 2006, initial support for Linux timer function compatibility support was present but untested. This update corrects the initial implementation and makes it - available to the 32bit linuxolator on amd64, not just on i386. + available to the 32-bit Linuxulator on amd64, not just on i386.

Starting with &os; 10.1, this enables users to run another FPGA high-level synthesis toolchain and emulation platform - on a FreeBSD system. + on a &os; system.

@@ -551,25 +551,25 @@ -

The FreeBSD GNOME Team maintains the GNOME, MATE and CINNAMON desktop - environments and graphical user interfaces for FreeBSD. GNOME 3 is part +

The &os; GNOME Team maintains the GNOME, MATE, and CINNAMON desktop + environments and graphical user interfaces for &os;. GNOME 3 is part of the GNU Project. MATE is a fork of the GNOME 2 desktop. CINNAMON is a desktop environment using GNOME 3 technologies but with a GNOME 2 look and feel.

This quarter was an exciting time for the GNOME Team. We imported GNOME 3.14.0 and CINNAMON 2.2.16 into the ports tree. At the same - time we removed the old GNOME 2.32 desktop. And two weeks later + time, we removed the old GNOME 2.32 desktop. And two weeks later we updated GNOME to 3.14.2 and CINNAMON to 2.4.2, which was collected while the preparation for the initial GNOME 3.14.0 import was - underway.

+ under way.

We moved our development repo to GitHub. The repo is structured as follows: the master branch - is vanilla &os; Ports, and we have theme branches for topics, + is vanilla &os; Ports, and we have theme branches for topics such as the porting of MATE 1.9 (mate-1.10 branch) and GNOME 3.15 (gnome-3.16 branch). The GNOME 3.14 branch (gnome-3.14) is not - used/updated anymore because the content has been committed to + used or updated any more because the content has been committed to ports, but is kept around for the history.

@@ -580,12 +580,12 @@ -

MATE 1.10 porting is underway, the latest 1.9 releases are +

MATE 1.10 porting is under way, the latest 1.9 releases are available in the mate-1.10 branch.

 -

GNOME 3.16 porting is underway, and is available in the +

GNOME 3.16 porting is under way, and is available in the gnome-3.16 branch.

 @@ -639,7 +639,7 @@ some updates to system sources, and fielded complaints about code quality of some other work in critical areas. While such disagreements will occasionally occur, core is - promoting the routine use of the phabricator service in order to + promoting the routine use of the Phabricator service in order to review work before committal. Catching problems early is in the project's best interests, and discussion of changes in an open review context should minimize confrontational demands for @@ -688,8 +688,8 @@ Raphael Kubo da Costa (rakuco@) and Max Brazhnikov (makc@) maintain all Qt and KDE-related ports.

-

This quarter, Qt 5.3 was finally committed to the ports tree - after extensive work that included cleaning up and/or changing a lot of +

This quarter, Qt 5.3 was finally committed to the ports tree. + Extensive work was required, including cleaning up and/or changing a lot of the Qt5 ports infrastructure to make it both easier to maintain the Qt ports as well as finally make it possible to build newer versions when older ones are already installed on the system.

@@ -728,7 +728,7 @@ - More Michael Lucas books + More Michael Lucas Books @@ -848,7 +848,7 @@

Since the last status report, many people have contributed help in various areas to help with Continuous Integration - and Testing in FreeBSD. Some of the highlights include:

+ and Testing in &os;. Some of the highlights include:

  • The Jenkins project mentioned on their blog how FreeBSD is using @@ -894,13 +894,13 @@
  • &a.rodrigc; submitted a formula to create a package for kyua in the Homebrew packaging system on OS X. The Homebrew project accepted this. Now, kyua can easily be installed on OS X via a - Homebrew package. Hopefully &os; this will make it easier to share + Homebrew package. Hopefully this will make it easier to share more test infrastructure and scripts with OS X.
  • &a.rodrigc; submitted to the Debian project a kyua package. Approval for this is still pending. A package will make it much easier to install kyua on Linux distributions which - use Debian packages such as Debian, Ubuntu and Linux Mint. Hopefully + use Debian packages such as Debian, Ubuntu, and Linux Mint. Hopefully &os; this will make it easier to share more test infrastructure and scripts with Linux.
    • @@ -908,7 +908,7 @@ Harness for OpenJDK (jtreg). The test results are in JUnit XML format, which can be natively imported into Jenkins. -
  • Ahmed Kamal, an experienced devops expert, and past +
  • Ahmed Kamal, an experienced devops expert and past contributor to the Ubuntu project, offered to help &a.rodrigc; with improving the automation and deployment of Jenkins nodes in the &os; cluster using the Saltstack automation @@ -957,11 +957,10 @@

    Xfce is a free software desktop environment for Unix and - Unix-like platforms, such as FreeBSD. It aims to be fast and + Unix-like platforms, such as &os;. It aims to be fast and lightweight, while still being visually appealing and easy to use.

    -

    During this quarter, the team has kept up-to-date the following - applications:

    +

    During this quarter, the team has kept these applications up-to-date:

    • misc/xfce4-weather-plugin 0.8.5
      • @@ -981,8 +980,8 @@
    • x11/xfce4-dashboard
    -

    Moreover, we are working on the next stable release, below list - of ports updated:

    +

    Moreover, we are working on the next stable release, with these + ports being updated:

    • sysutils/xfce4-power-manager 1.4.2
      • @@ -1003,16 +1002,16 @@ -

      Find workaround when acpi_video(4) is not functional +

      Find workaround when acpi_video(4) is not functional (panel crashes); OpenBSD seems to have same problem.

       -

      Cleanup patch in order to add new panel plugin in ports +

      Clean up patch in order to add new panel plugin in ports tree.

      Continue to work on documentation, especially the Porter's - handbook.

      + Handbook.

             @@ -1058,11 +1057,11 @@ - The Graphics stack on FreeBSD + The Graphics Stack on &os; - FreeBSD Graphics team + &os; Graphics team freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org @@ -1079,7 +1078,7 @@ now usually updated shortly after a new release. Mesa 10.x brings huge improvements in terms of OpenGL standards support, performance and stability, especially for Radeon owners. Mesa 9.1 is kept for - FreeBSD 9.x, but we have plans to fix this; see below.

      + &os; 9.x, but we have plans to fix this; see below.

      graphics/gbm and devel/libclc are new ports used by Mesa to implement OpenCL. The next step is to finish the port for @@ -1090,7 +1089,7 @@ of xserver supporting Mesa 9.1. Changes are described in an article on the blog. The most noticeable one is the switch from the input device detection back-end based on HAL to the one based on - devd(8). hald(8) is still required by many desktop environments, but + devd(8). hald(8) is still required by many desktop environments, but the X.Org server itself is free from it.

      xserver was the last port supporting the WITH_NEW_XORG @@ -1104,7 +1103,7 @@

      • TEXTURE_FLOAT in graphics/dri, which allows Mesa to advertise the support for OpenGL 3.0+;
        • -
      • LCD_FILTERING in print/freetype2, which enables the +
      • LCD_FILTERING in print/freetype2, which enables the subpixel rendering engine, improving font anti-aliasing.
      @@ -1115,12 +1114,12 @@

      On the kernel side, Tijl Coosemans added AGP support back to the TTM memory manager and therefore to the Radeon driver. His work was - merged back to stable/10 and will be available in FreeBSD + merged back to stable/10 and will be available in &os; 10.2-RELEASE.

      We migrated our Ports development tree to Git and GitHub. Tracking changes in the official Ports tree and preparing patches is way - easier. Furthermore, we can accept pull requests. All reasons behind + easier. Furthermore, we can accept pull requests. All of the reasons behind this change are detailed on the blog and the workflow is described on the wiki.

      @@ -1130,7 +1129,7 @@

      Our next items on the roadmap are:

        -
      1. Provide FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE's i915 driver to FreeBSD 9.x users +
      2. Provide &os; 10.1-RELEASE's i915 driver to &os; 9.x users through a new port. This is a work in progress, but it would allow us to remove Mesa 9.1 and make Mesa 10.4 available everywhere.
      3. Once Mesa 9.1 is gone, we can update xserver to 1.16.
        4. @@ -1246,10 +1245,10 @@

        During this quarter almost all pending Xen changes have been - committed, enabling FreeBSD to be used as Dom0 under the new - PVH mode. The set of features supported by FreeBSD is still limited, - but it should allow for basic usage of FreeBSD as Dom0. Support for - booting Xen from the FreeBSD boot loader will be committed very soon + committed, enabling &os; to be used as Dom0 under the new + PVH mode. The set of features supported by &os; is still limited, + but it should allow for basic usage of &os; as Dom0. Support for + booting Xen from the &os; boot loader will be committed very soon to HEAD.

        Apart from testing on a variety of hardware, work has now @@ -1257,8 +1256,8 @@ parity with a traditional PV Dom0 and to declare the PVH ABI as stable.

        -

        Regarding guest improvements (running FreeBSD as a DomU), - there's also ongoing work to add unmapped IO support to Xen blkfront, +

        Regarding guest improvements (running &os; as a DomU), + there is also ongoing work to add unmapped IO support to Xen blkfront, which is blocked pending some modifications to the generic bounce buffer code.

        @@ -1287,7 +1286,7 @@ - Clang, llvm and lldb updated to 3.5.0 + Clang, <tt>llvm</tt>, and <tt>lldb</tt> Updated to 3.5.0 @@ -1319,13 +1318,13 @@ -

        Just before the end of the year, we have updated clang, - llvm and lldb in the base system to 3.5.0 release. These all contain - numerous improvements; please see the linked release notes for +

        Just before the end of the year, we updated clang, + llvm, and lldb in the base system to 3.5.0 release. These all contain + numerous improvements. Please see the linked release notes for more detailed information.

        This is the first release that requires C++11 support to build. - At this point, FreeBSD 10.0 and later provide that support, at least + At this point, &os; 10.0 and later provide that support, at least on x86.

        In the near future, more components from llvm.org will @@ -1333,7 +1332,7 @@ being the first.

        Thanks to Ed Maste, Roman Divacky, Andrew Turner, Justin - Hibbits and Antoine Brodin for their invaluable help with this + Hibbits, and Antoine Brodin for their invaluable help with this import.

        @@ -1350,7 +1349,7 @@ -

        There are still some open issues with the ARM, PowerPC +

        There are still some open issues with the ARM, PowerPC, and Sparc64 architectures, and any help in this area is very much appreciated.

         @@ -1398,7 +1397,7 @@         - Git integration + Git Integration @@ -1471,7 +1470,7 @@ - Migration to ELF Tool Chain tools + Migration to ELF Tool Chain Tools @@ -1557,7 +1556,7 @@ - bhyve + <tt>bhyve</tt> @@ -1764,9 +1763,9 @@

        As of the end of Q4 the ports tree holds more than 24,000 ports, and the PR count is just over 1,400. As during the previous quarter the tree saw a sustained activity with - almost 6,000 commits and more than 1,600 ports PR closed!

        + almost 6,000 commits and more than 1,600 ports PRs closed!

        -

        In Q4 five new developers were granted a ports commit bit +

        In Q4, five new developers were granted a ports commit bit (gordon@, jmg@, jmmv@, bofh@, truckman@) and six were taken in for safekeeping (sylvio@, pclin@, flz@, jsa@, anders@, motoyuki@).

        @@ -1778,7 +1777,7 @@

        This quarter also saw the release of the fourth quarterly branch, namely 2014Q4.

        -

        On QA side 39 exp-runs were performed to validate sensitive +

        On the QA side, 39 exp-runs were performed to validate sensitive updates or cleanups.

        @@ -1793,14 +1792,14 @@

        2014 is the year that saw the highest number of commits in all of our ports tree's history! As for the PR front and - to keep our beloved tree in such a good shape we would love + to keep our beloved tree in good shape, we would love to see the same commitment from our developers next year!

                 - Linux emulation layer a.k.a. Linuxulator + Linux Emulation Layer, the Linuxulator @@ -1823,10 +1822,10 @@ version 2.20 or later to be available on &os;. Glibc 2.20 requires a Linux kernel (or emulation thereof) of version 2.6.32 or later. The main obstacle preventing this is that the current - Linuxulator uses native FreeBSD processes for emulating Linux + Linuxulator uses native &os; processes for emulating Linux threads. This leads to several problems, including problems with process reparenting and dethreading, wait() and signal - handling. It would be much better to reuse the FreeBSD kernel + handling. It would be much better to reuse the &os; kernel code for thread management than to create a completely new codebase for pseudothread management in the Linuxulator.

        @@ -1848,8 +1847,8 @@
      4. Many bugs were fixed
    -

    The project's code is located in the FreeBSD Project's - Subversion repository, at base/user/dchagin/lemul (a +

    The project's code is located in the &os; Project's + Subversion repository at base/user/dchagin/lemul (a little bit old). To facilitate merging the improvements back to head, several patches have been placed on reviews.FreeBSD.org with the tag #lemul. Nearly half of the patches have already @@ -1883,7 +1882,7 @@ -

    Extend xucred suppport, which is required for many Linux +

    Extend xucred support, required for many Linux applications.

    @@ -1936,7 +1935,7 @@

    The ports have packages built for amd64 (available through the ports emulators/i386-wine and i386-wine-devel) for &os; 8.4, 9.1+, - 10.0+ and CURRENT.

    + 10.0+, and CURRENT.

    Accomplishments include:

    @@ -1957,9 +1956,9 @@
  • Various smaller changes.
-

We would like to thank all volunteers who contributed feedback +

We would like to thank all the volunteers who contributed feedback or even patches. We would also like to welcome kmoore@ to the Wine - team. He has been extensively involved in bring wine-compholio to the + team. He has been extensively involved in bringing wine-compholio to the Ports Collection.

Future development on Wine will focus on:

@@ -1971,9 +1970,9 @@

Maintaining and improving Wine is a major undertaking that - directly impacts end-users on &os; (including many gamers). If you - are interested in helping please contact us. We will happily accept - patches, suggest areas of focus or have a chat.

+ directly impacts end-users on &os;, including many gamers. If you + are interested in helping, please contact us. We will happily accept + patches, suggest areas of focus, or have a chat.

@@ -1983,7 +1982,7 @@ -

FreeBSD/amd64 integration (see the &os;/amd64 integration (see the i386-Wine wiki page).

 @@ -1994,7 +1993,7 @@ - Linux emulation ports + Linux Emulation Ports @@ -2155,7 +2154,7 @@
  • creating ports/packages of the gnu-efi toolchain, - Matthew Garrett’s shim loader, and sbsigntools
    • + Matthew Garrett's shim loader, and sbsigntools
  • extending the shim to provide an API for boot1.efi to load and verify binaries signed by keys known to the shim
  • writing uefisign(8), a BSD-licensed utility to sign EFI @@ -2220,8 +2219,8 @@

    There is growing interest in ARM's 64-bit architecture. - Officially named as AArch64, it is also known as ARMv8 and arm64. - Andrew Turner started initial work on the FreeBSD/arm64 port at + Officially named AArch64, it is also known as ARMv8 and arm64. + Andrew Turner started initial work on the &os;/arm64 port at the end of 2012.

    The &os; Foundation is now collaborating with ARM, @@ -2229,9 +2228,9 @@ arm64, and significant progress was made on the port over the last quarter of 2014.

    -

    As of the end of the year &os; boots to single-user mode +

    As of the end of the year, &os; boots to single-user mode on arm64, executing both static and dynamic applications. Patches - in review allow &os; to boot to multi-user mode and these are + in review allow &os; to boot to multi-user mode, and these are expected to be merged soon. This includes implementing many stub functions in userland and the kernel. With this, &os; has booted to multi-user mode on both the ARM Foundation Model and the QEMU full @@ -2279,7 +2278,7 @@ - libxo: generate text, XML, JSON, and HTML output + <tt>libxo</tt>: Generate Text, XML, JSON, and HTML Output @@ -2308,9 +2307,9 @@

    Juniper Networks has created a library called libxo, which makes it easy for utilities to emit output in various - formats. By default the text output is emitted, but with the - introduction of the —libxo option this can be changed to - XML, JSON and HTML. The &os; project has imported this library + formats. By default, text output is emitted, but with the + introduction of the --libxo option this can be changed to + XML, JSON, and HTML. The &os; project has imported this library into the base system and is in the process of rewriting utilities to use libxo.