From adfaab115a0c6274c7355660189c309b9c072138 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 23:17:31 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add core@ team report.
Submitted by: core-secretary (matthew)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
---
.../news/status/report-2014-04-2014-06.xml | 65 ++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 64 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-04-2014-06.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-04-2014-06.xml
index 89d7dcfd42..e6d5185956 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-04-2014-06.xml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-04-2014-06.xml
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
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<p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This
- report contains 7 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
+ report contains 8 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
<p>The deadline for submissions covering between July and
September 2014 is October 7th, 2014.</p>
@@ -575,4 +575,67 @@
<task>Support secure boot.</task>
</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 &os; Core Team constitutes the project's "Board of
+ Directors", responsible for deciding the project's overall
+ goals and direction as well as managing specific areas of the
+ &os; project landscape.</p>
+
+ <p>Topics for core this quarter have included some far-reaching
+ policy reviews and some significant changes to the project
+ development methodology.</p>
+
+ <p>In May, a new release policy was published as well as being
+ presented at the BSDCan developer conference by John Baldwin.
+ The idea is that each major release branch (eg. 10.x) is
+ guarranteed to be supported for at least five years, but
+ individual point releases on each branch (eg. 10.0-RELEASE)
+ will be issued at regular intervals and only the latest point
+ release will be supported.</p>
+
+ <p>Another significant change did not receive approval. When
+ the change to the Bylaws reforming the core team election
+ process was put to the vote of all &os; developers it failed
+ to reach a quorum.</p>
+
+ <p>June saw the culmination of a long running project to replace
+ the project's bug tracking system. As of 3rd June the &os;
+ project has switched to Bugzilla as its bug tracking system.
+ All of the history of Gnats PRs has been preserved, so there
+ is no need to re-open old tickets. Work is still going on to
+ replicate some of the integration tweaks that had been applied
+ to Gnats, but all necessary functionality has been implemented
+ and the project is already seeing the benefits of the new
+ capabilities bought by Bugzilla.</p>
+
+ <p>An election to select core members for the next two year term
+ of office took place during this period. We would like to
+ thank retiring members of core for their years of service.
+ The new core team provides continuity with previous core
+ teams: about half are incumbents from the previous team, and
+ several former core team members have returned after a hiatus.
+ core now includes two members of the &os; Foundation board and
+ one other Foundation staff member, aiding greater coordination
+ at the top level of the project. At the same time the
+ core-secretary role was passed on to a new volunteer.</p>
+
+ <p>Other activities included providing consultation on licensing
+ terms for software within the &os; source tree, and oversight
+ of changes to the membership of postmaster and clusteradm.</p>
+
+ <p>Three new src commit bits were issued during this quarter,
+ and one was taken into safekeeping.</p>
+ </body>
+ </project>
</report>