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<!-- XXX: Keep updating the number of entries -->
<p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report
contains 32 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
contains 33 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
<p>The deadline for submissions covering between January and
March 2014 is April 7th, 2014.</p>
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<task>Remove the dependency on HAL.</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='team'>
<title>&os; Core Team</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>&os; Core Team</name>
<email>core@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<body>
<p>The &os; Core Team constitutes the project's <q>Board of
Directors</q>, responsible for deciding the project's overall
goals and direction as well as managing specific areas of the
&os; project landscape.</p>
<p>In the fourth quarter of 2013, the Core Team has finally
reached its previous goal about launching the official
repositories for <tt>pkg(8)</tt>-based binary packages. The
Core Team also unified the commit bit expiration policies for
all the Project repositories, allowing the committers to stay
idle for 18 months before their commit bits are automatically
taken into safekeeping. This was then followed by an extension
on suspending cluster accounts for the committers who lost all
of their commit bits. It helps to improve the security of the
Project server farm by temporarily disabling inactive accounts.
In conjuction with all those efforts, Thomas Abthorpe
resurrected the <q>Grim Reaper</q> service which helps to
enforce the aforementioned policy.</p>
<p>Along the works of John Baldwin and Hiroki Sato, many licenses
in the base system's source code have been revisited and cleaned
up. Furthermore, the Core Team is hoping that the situation
could be improved by introducing periodic automated checks of
the license agreements, and by giving developers guidelines on
licensing questions. John Baldwin and David Chisnall have been
guiding the work of the &os; Graphics Team on moving to the
newer version of X.Org and related software in the Ports
Collection, in coordination with the switch to Newcons on &os;
10.x.</p>
<p>It was a busy quarter for the src repository as well. The Core
Team was happy to welcome Jordan K. Hubbard (<tt>jkh</tt>) back
who has recently returned to the &os; business, and joined
iXsystems as project manager and release engineer of FreeNAS.
In addition to this, there were 3 commit bits handed out for new
developers, 2 committers have gained upgrade, 1 commit bit was
taken for safekeeping, and 1 src bit was reactivated.</p>
</body>
</project>
</report>