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<!DOCTYPE report PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD FreeBSD XML Database for Status
Report//EN"
"http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd">
<!-- $FreeBSD: www/en/news/status/report-2009-04-2009-09.xml,v 1.11 2009/10/08 22:08:30 keramida Exp $ -->
<!-- $FreeBSD: www/en/news/status/report-2009-04-2009-09.xml,v 1.12 2009/10/08 22:09:30 keramida Exp $ -->
<report>
<date>
<month>April-September</month>
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</help>
</project>
<project cat='proj'>
<title>New BSD licensed debugger</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Doug</given>
<common>Rabson</common>
</name>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/TheBsdDebugger">Wiki page</url>
<url href="http://people.freebsd.org/~dfr/ngdb.git">Repository</url>
<url href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/200909DevSummit?action=AttachFile&amp;do=view&amp;target=NGDB-200909.pdf">Slides</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>I have been working recently on writing a new debugger,
primarily for the FreeBSD platform. For various reasons, I have
been writing it in a relatively obscure C-like language called
D.</p>
<p>So far, I have a pretty useful (if a little raw at the edges)
command line debugger which supports ELF, Dwarf debugging
information and (currently) 32 bit FreeBSD and Linux. The
engine includes parsing and evaluation of arbitrary C expressions
along with the usual debugging tools such as breakpoints, source
code listing, single-step etc. All the code is new and BSD
licensed. Currently, the thing supports userland debugging of
i386 targets via ptrace and post-mortem core file debugging of
the same. I will be adding amd64 support real soon (TM) and
maybe support for GDB's remote debugging protocol later.</p>
</body>
</project>
<project cat='proj'>
<title>Clang replacing GCC in the base system</title>
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</help>
</project>
<project cat='team'>
<title>FreeBSD Ports Management Team</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Mark</given>
<common>Linimon</common>
</name>
<email>linimon@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://www.freebsd.org/ports/">The FreeBSD Ports
Collection</url>
<url href="http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing-ports/">
Contributing to the FreeBSD Ports Collection</url>
<url href="http://portsmon.FreeBSD.org/index.html">The FreeBSD
ports monitoring system</url>
<url href="http://www.freebsd.org/portmgr/index.html">The
FreeBSD Ports Management Team</url>
<url href="http://tinderbox.marcuscom.com">marcuscom Tinderbox</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>The ports count has soared to over 20,700. The PR count had
been driven below 800 by some extraordinary effort, but once
again is back to its usual count of around 900.</p>
<p>We are currently building packages for amd64-6, amd64-7,
amd64-8, i386-6, i386-7, i386-8, sparc64-7, and sparc64-8.
There have been preliminary runs of i386-9; however, to be able
to continue builds on -9, we will either need to find places to
host a number of new machines, or drop package building for -6.
The mailing list discussion of the latter proved quite
controversial.</p>
<p>We have added some new i386 machines to help speed up the
builds, but this only makes up for the disk failures on some
of our older, slower, i386 nodes.</p>
<p>We also appreciate the loan of more package build machines from
several committers, including pgollucci@, gahr@, erwin@, Boris
Kochergin, and Craig Butler.</p>
<p>The portmgr@ team has also welcomed new members Ion-Mihai Tetcu
(itetcu@) and Martin Wilke (miwi@). We also thank departing
member Kirill Ponomarew (krion@) for his long service.</p>
<p>Ion-Mihai has spent much time working on a system that does
automatic Quality Assurance on new commits, called QATty.
This has helped us to fix many problems, especially those
involving custom LOCALBASE settings, and documentation inclusion
options.</p>
<p>Between pav and miwi, over 2 dozen experimental ports runs have
been completed and committed.</p>
<p>We have added 5 new committers since the last report, and 2
older ones have rejoined.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>We are currently trying to set up ports tinderboxes that
can be made available to committers for pre-testing.</task>
<task>Most of the remaining ports PRs are "existing port/PR
assigned to committer". Although the maintainer-timeout policy
is helping to keep the backlog down, we are going to need to do
more to get the ports in the shape they really need to be
in.</task>
<task>Although we have added many maintainers, we still have
almost 4,700 unmaintained ports (see, for instance, the list on
portsmon). (The percentage is down to 22%.) We are always
looking for dedicated volunteers to adopt at least a few
unmaintained ports. As well, the packages on amd64 and sparc64
lag behind i386, and we need more testers for those.</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='team'>
<title>FreeBSD KDE Team</title>