Add introduction to the 2017Q2 status report

Submitted by:	linimon

en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-04-2017-06.xml

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       an announcement email is sent to the &os;-Announce mailing
       list.</strong></p>
 
-    <?ignore
-    <p>This report covers &os;-related projects between April and
-      June 2017.  This is the second of four reports planned for
-      2017.</p>
+    <p>&os; continues to defy the rumors of its demise.</p>
 
-    <p>The second quarter of 2017 was another productive quarter for
-      the &os; project and community. [...]</p>
+    <p>Much of the development work done this quarter was not
+      particularly visible, especially the effort needed to ensure
+      the upcoming 11.1 release has as few regressions as possible.
+      Planning is also well under way for the 10.4 maintenance release
+      which will quickly follow it.</p>
 
-    <p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work!</p>
+    <p>Further work focused on moving the arm architectures' support
+      closer to tier-1 status and improving documentation.  In addition,
+      large changes were made to the src and ports trees.</p>
+
+    <p>These projects and others are further detailed below.</p>
+
+    <p>&mdash;Mark Linimon</p>
+
+    <p><hr /></p>
 
     <p>The deadline for submissions covering the period from July
       to September 2017 is October 7, 2017.</p>
-     ?>
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