- add all the remaining status reports which we have received so far.
There may be one or two more but I have not it confirmed. If anybody spots grammar/syntax/spelling errors anywhere in this document, please let us know at monthly@FreeBSD.org so we will fix it before going publicly.
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<!DOCTYPE report PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD FreeBSD XML Database for Status
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Report//EN"
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"http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd">
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<!-- $FreeBSD: www/en/news/status/report-2009-04-2009-09.xml,v 1.6 2009/10/07 19:52:24 gabor Exp $ -->
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<!-- $FreeBSD: www/en/news/status/report-2009-04-2009-09.xml,v 1.7 2009/10/07 20:42:35 gabor Exp $ -->
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<report>
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<date>
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<month>April-September</month>
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</help>
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</project>
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<project cat='proj'>
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<title>Grand Central Dispatch - FreeBSD port</title>
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<contact>
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<person>
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<name>
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<given>Robert</given>
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<common>Watson</common>
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</name>
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<email>rwatson@FreeBSD.org</email>
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</person>
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<person>
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<name>
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<given>Stacey</given>
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<common>Son</common>
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</name>
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<email>sson@FreeBSD.org</email>
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</person>
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<person>
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<name>
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<given>libdispatch mailing list</given>
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</name>
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<email>libdispatch-dev@lists.macosforge.org</email>
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</person>
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</contact>
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<links>
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<url href="http://libdispatch.macosforge.org/">GCD / libdispatch web page</url>
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</links>
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<body>
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<p>We've ported libdispatch, Apple's Grand Central Dispatch event
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and concurrency framework, to FreeBSD:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Added new kqueue primitives required to support GCD, such
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as EVFILT_USER and EV_TRIGGER</li>
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<li>Created autoconf/automake build framework for libdispatch</li>
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<li>Modified libdispatch to use POSIX semaphores instead of
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Mach semaphores</li>
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<li>Adapted libdispatch to use portable POSIX time routines</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Jordan Hubbard has also prepared a blocks-aware clang compiler
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package for FreeBSD. When compiled with clang, libdispatch
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provides blocks-based as well as function-based callbacks.</p>
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<p>The port was presented at the FreeBSD Developer Summit in
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Cambridge, UK in September, and slides are online on the devsummit
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wiki page. A FreeBSD port is now available in the ports collection.
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After FreeBSD 8.0 has shipped, the new kqueue primitives will be
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MFC'd so that libdispatch works out of the box on FreeBSD 8.1.</p>
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</body>
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<help>
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<task>
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Complete porting of libdispatch test suite to FreeBSD.
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</task>
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<task>
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Investigate pthread work queue implementation for FreeBSD.
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</task>
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<task>
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Evaluate performance impact of some machine-dependent and
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OS-dependent optimizations present in the Mac OS X version of
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libdispatch to decide if they should be done for other
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platforms/OS's.
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</task>
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<task>
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Explore whether FreeBSD base operating system tools would benefit
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from being modified to use libdispatch.
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</task>
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</help>
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</project>
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<project cat='proj'>
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<title>VirtualBox on FreeBSD</title>
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</body>
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</project>
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<project cat='team'>
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<title>FreeBSD BugBusting Team</title>
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<contact>
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<person>
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<name>
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<given>Gavin</given>
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<common>Atkinson</common>
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</name>
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<email>gavin@FreeBSD.org</email>
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</person>
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<person>
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<name>
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<given>Mark</given>
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<common>Linimon</common>
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</name>
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<email>linimon@FreeBSD.org</email>
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</person>
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<person>
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<name>
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<given>Remko</given>
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<common>Lodder</common>
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</name>
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<email>remko@FreeBSD.org</email>
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</person>
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<person>
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<name>
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<given>Volker</given>
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<common>Werth</common>
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</name>
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<email>vwe@FreeBSD.org</email>
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</person>
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</contact>
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<links>
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<url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/support.html#gnats" />
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<url href="http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/BugBusting" />
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<url href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~linimon/studies/prs/" />
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<url href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~linimon/studies/prs/recommended_prs.html" />
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</links>
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<body>
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<p>We continue to classify PRs as they arrive, adding 'tags' to
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the subject lines corresponding to the kernel subsystem
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involved, or man page references for userland PRs. These tags,
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in turn, produce lists of PRs sorted both by tag and by
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manpage.</p>
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<p>The list of PRs recommended for committer evaluation by the
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BugBusting team continues to receive new additions. This list
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contains PRs, mostly with patches, that the BugBusting team
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feel are probably ready to be committed as-is, or are probably
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trivially resolved in the hands of a committer with knowledge
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of the particular subsystem. All committers are invited to take
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a look at this list whenever they have a spare 5 minutes and
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wish to close a PR.</p>
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<p>A full list of all the automatically generated reports is also
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available at one of the cited URLs. Any recommendations for
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reports which do not currently exist but which would be
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beneficial are welcomed.</p>
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<p>Gavin Atkinson gave a presentation on "The PR Collection
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Status" at the EuroBSDCon 2009 DevSummit, and discussed with
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other participants several other ideas to make the PR database
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more useful and usable. Several good ideas came from this, and
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will hopefully lead to more useful tools in the near future.
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Discussions also took place on how it may be possible to
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automatically classify non-ports PRs with a view towards
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notifying interested parties, although investigations into this
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has not yet begun.</p>
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<p>Mark Linimon also continues attempting to define the general
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problem and investigating possible new work flow models, and
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presented work on this at BSDCan 2009.</p>
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<p>Since the last status report, the number of open bugs has
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increased to around the 5900 mark, partially because of an
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increased focus on getting more information into the existing
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PRs, in an attempt to make sure all the information required is
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now available. As a result, although the number of open PRs has
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increased, they are hopefully of better quality.</p>
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<p>As always, more help is appreciated, and committers and
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non-committers alike are always invited to join us on
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#freebsd-bugbusters on EFnet and help close stale PRs or commit
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patches from valid PRs.</p>
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</body>
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<help>
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<task>
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Work on suggestions from developers who were at the EuroBSDCon
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Devsummit.
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</task>
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<task>
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Try to find ways to get more committers helping us with closing
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PRs that the team has already analyzed.
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</task>
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</help>
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</project>
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<project cat='team'>
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<title>FreeBSD KDE Team</title>
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</help>
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</project>
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<project cat='misc'>
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<title>FreeBSD Developer Summit, Cambridge UK</title>
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<contact>
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<person>
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<name>
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<given>Robert</given>
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<common>Watson</common>
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</name>
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<email>rwatson@FreeBSD.org</email>
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</person>
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</contact>
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<links>
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<url href="http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/200909DevSummit" />
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</links>
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<body>
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<p>Around 70 FreeBSD developers and guests attended the FreeBSD
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developer summit prior to EuroBSDCon 2009 in Cambridge, UK.
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Hosted at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, the
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workshop-style event consisted of prepared presentations as well
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as group hacking and discussion sessions. Talks covered topics
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including 802.11 mesh networking, virtual network stacks and
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kernels, a new BSD-licensed debugger, benchmarking, bugbusting,
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NetFPGA, a port of Apple's GCD (Grand Central Dispatch) to
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FreeBSD, security policy work, cryptographic signatures,
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FreeBSD.org system administration, time geeks, a new console
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driver, and the FreeBSD subversion migration. Slides for many
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talks are now available on the wiki page. A good time was had by
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all, including a punting outing on the River Cam!</p>
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</body>
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</project>
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<project cat='misc'>
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<title>EuroBSDcon 2009</title>
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</help>
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</project>
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<project cat='bin'>
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<title>BSD-licensed text-processing tools</title>
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<project cat='soc'>
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<title>BSD-licensed text-processing tools (Summer of Code 2008)</title>
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<contact>
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<person>
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</help>
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</project>
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<project cat='net'>
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<title>Network Stack Virtualization</title>
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<contact>
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<person>
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<name>
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<given>Bjoern A.</given>
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<common>Zeeb</common>
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</name>
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<email>bz@FreeBSD.ORG</email>
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</person>
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<person>
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<name>
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<given>Marko</given>
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<common>Zec</common>
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</name>
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<email>zec@FreeBSD.ORG</email>
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</person>
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<person>
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<name>
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<given>Robert</given>
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<common>Watson</common>
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</name>
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<email>rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG</email>
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</person>
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</contact>
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<links>
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<url href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/Image">Wiki VImage overview
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page (incl. TODO).</url>
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<url href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/200909DevSummit">FreeBSD
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Developer Summit, 2009, Cambridge, UK.</url>
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</links>
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<body>
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<p>The network stack virtualization project aims at extending the
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FreeBSD kernel to maintain multiple independent instances of
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networking state. This allows for networking independence
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between jail environment, each maintaining its private network
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interfaces, IPv4 and IPv6 network and port address space, routing
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tables, IPSec configuration, firewalls, and more.</p>
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<p>During the last months the remaining pieces of the VIMAGE work
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were merged by Marko, Julian and Bjoern. Robert Watson developed
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a vnet allocator to overcome ABI issues. Jamie Gritton merged
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his hierachical jail framework that now also is the management
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interface for virtual network stacks.</p>
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<p>During the FreeBSD Developer Summit that took place at
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EuroBSDCon 2009 in Cambridge, UK, people virtualized more code.
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As a result SCTP and another accept filter were virtualized and
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more people went along getting familiar with the concepts.
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Finally getting more hands involved was a crucial first step for
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the long term success of kernel virtualization.</p>
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<p>The next steps will be to finish the network stack
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virtualization, generalize the allocator framework before
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thinking of virtualizing further subsystems and to update
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documentation. Along with that a proper jail management
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framework will be worked on. Long term goals, amongst others,
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will be to virtualize more subsystems like SYS-V IPC, better
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privilege handling and resource limits.</p>
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<p>In the upcoming FreeBSD 8.0 Release, vnets are treated as an
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experimental feature, which is not yet recommended for use in
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production environments. There was lots of time spent to
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finalize infrastructure for vnets though, so that further
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changes can be merged and we are aiming to have things
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production ready for 8.2.</p>
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<p>In case you want to help to achieve this goal, feel free to
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contact us and support or help virtualizing outstanding parts
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like two firewalls, appletalk, netipx, ... as well as generating
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regression tests.</p>
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</body>
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</project>
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<project cat='net'>
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<title>Enhancing the FreeBSD TCP Implementation</title>
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</help>
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</project>
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<project cat='net'>
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<title>Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)</title>
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<contact>
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<person>
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<name>
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<given>Randall</given>
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<common>Stewart</common>
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</name>
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<email>rrs@FreeBSD</email>
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</person>
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</contact>
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<body>
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<p>SCTP continues to have minor fixes added to it as well as some
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new features. First and foremost, we now have VIMAGE and SCTP
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working and playing together. This goal was accomplished with
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the help of bz@, my new mentee tuexen@ and myself working
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together at the FreeBSD DevSummit in Cambridge, UK. Also the
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non-renegable sack feature contributed by the university of
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Delaware was fixed so that now its safe to turn on (its
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syscontrol). If you are using SCTP with CMT (Conncurrent
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Multipath Transfer) you will want to enable this option
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(CMT is also a sysctl). With CMT enabled you will use all
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destinations of a peer to send data to.</p>
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<p>We welcomed a new mentee (soon to be commitor) to FreeBSD.
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Michael Tuexen is now mentee of rrs@. Michael has been
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contributing to the SCTP work for quite some time and also
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moonlights as a Professor at the University of Muenster
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in Germany (when not doing SCTP coding).</p>
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</body>
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</project>
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<project cat='kern'>
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<title>FreeBSD/ZFS</title>
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<contact>
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<person>
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<name>
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<given>Pawel</given>
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<common>Dawidek</common>
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</name>
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<email>pjd@FreeBSD.org</email>
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</person>
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</contact>
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<body>
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<p>We believe, that the ZFS file system is now production-ready in
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FreeBSD 8.0. Most (if not all) reported bugs were fixed and ZFS
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is no longer tagged as experimental. There is also ongoing work
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in perforce to bring the latest ZFS version (v19) to FreeBSD.</p>
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</body>
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<help>
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<task>
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Download 8.0 release candidates and test, test, test and report
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any problems to the
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<a href="mailto:freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org">freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org</a>
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mailing list.
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</task>
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</help>
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</project>
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<project cat='kern'>
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<title>hwpmc for MIPS</title>
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</help>
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</project>
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<project cat='ports'>
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<title>Portmaster - utility to assist users with managing ports</title>
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<contact>
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<person>
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<name>
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<given>Doug</given>
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<common>Barton</common>
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</name>
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<email>dougb@FreeBSD.org</email>
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</person>
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</contact>
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<links>
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<url href="http://dougbarton.us/portmaster.html" />
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</links>
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<body>
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<p>I am currently seeking funding for further development work on
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portmaster. There are several features that are regularly
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requested by the community (such as support for installing
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packages) that I would very much like to implement but that
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will take more time than I can reasonably volunteer to implement
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correctly. There is information about the funding proposal
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available at the link above.</p>
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<p>Meanwhile I have recently completed another round of bug fixes
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and feature enhancements. The often-requested ability to specify
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the -x (exclude) option more than once on the command line was
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added in version 2.12. Also in that version I added the
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--list-origins option to make it easier to reinstall ports after
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a major version upgrade, or install the same set of ports on
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another system.</p>
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</body>
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<help>
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<task>See the funding proposal.</task>
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</help>
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</project>
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<project cat='ports'>
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<title>Valgrind suite on FreeBSD</title>
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</help>
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</project>
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<project cat='misc'>
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<title>Google Summer of Code 2009</title>
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<project cat='soc'>
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<title>About Google Summer of Code 2009</title>
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<contact>
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<person>
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