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</help>
</project>
<project cat='team'>
<title>The &os; Core Team</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>&os; Core Team</name>
<email>core@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<body>
<p>The biggest task handled by the Core Team during this quarter
was developing and publishing the new Code of Conduct. The Code
of Conduct describes how people are expected to behave on all &os;
official communication channels, as well as how developers and other
people involved with the project are to behave when representing the
project in public.</p>
<p>The Code of Conduct was generally well received and elicited
numerous comments and suggestions for improvements from the
community, many of which have been integrated.</p>
<p>The next task handled by Core was the restoration of Babak
Farrokhi's ports commit bit. Babak is an Iranian resident and
consequently had run afoul of US trade sanctions, which the
project had initially been advised would make it illegal
for him to contribute. After several years, Core was asked to
revisit the issue. On the advice of counsel, Core decided that
it could restore commit privileges to commmitters resident in
Iran.</p>
<p>The CTM service came under security review. Given that the lack of
use of routine authenticity checking made the injection of
trivial exploit code relatively easy, the service was held to be
too risky to continue as an official part of the &os; base system.
CTM has very few remaining users but they should be able to
install CTM from the Ports Collection in order to continue doing
so.</p>
<p>Core learned that ISC was ceasing its hosting service, which has
entailed a rapid rework of plans on the movement of significant
portions of the &os; cluster to that datacentre. Cluster
administration has taken ownership of the situation and is making
progress.</p>
<p>Core fielded an enquiry about NextBSD and whether this
should be the future direction for the whole &os; project. Core's
position is that NextBSD is an interesting project, and we regard
it, like the other BSD projects, as a potential source of good
ideas. However, we currently have no plans to adopt NextBSD as
the official &os; distribution.</p>
<p>Beyond these issues, Core also spent time in various routine
activities. During this quarter we issued three new
src commit bits, and took none in for safekeeping. Welcome to
&a.allanjude;, &a.aurajo;, and &a.avos;.
</p>
</body>
</project>
</report>