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<!DOCTYPE report PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD FreeBSD XML Database for
Status Report//EN"
"http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/share/xml/statusreport.dtd" >
<!-- $FreeBSD$ -->
<report>
<date>
<month>July-September</month>
<year>2014</year>
</date>
<section>
<title>Introduction</title>
<!-- <?ignore -->
<p><strong>This is a draft of the July-September 2014 status
report. Please check back after it is finalized, and an
announcement email is sent to the &os;-Announce mailing
list.</strong></p>
<!-- ?> -->
<p>This report covers &os;-related projects between July and
September 2014. This is the third of four reports planned for
2014.</p>
<p>The third quarter of 2014... was a very busy and productive
time</p>
<p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This
report contains 0 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
<p>The deadline for submissions covering the period from October
to December 2014 is January 7th, 2015.</p>
</section>
<category>
<name>team</name>
<description>&os; Team Reports</description>
</category>
<category>
<name>proj</name>
<description>Projects</description>
</category>
<category>
<name>kern</name>
<description>Kernel</description>
</category>
<category>
<name>arch</name>
<description>Architectures</description>
</category>
<?ignore
<category>
<name>bin</name>
<description>Userland Programs</description>
</category>
?>
<category>
<name>ports</name>
<description>Ports</description>
</category>
<category>
<name>doc</name>
<description>Documentation</description>
</category>
<category>
<name>misc</name>
<description>Miscellaneous</description>
</category>
<project cat='proj'>
<title>New Automounter</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Edward Tomasz</given>
<common>Napiera&#322;a</common>
</name>
<email>trasz@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/Automounter" />
<url href="http://people.freebsd.org/~trasz/autofs.pdf" />
</links>
<body>
<p>Deficiencies in the current automounter, <tt>amd(8)</tt>, are a
recurring problem reported by many &os; users. A new
automounter is being developed to address these concerns.</p>
<p>The automounter is a cleanroom implementation of
functionality available in most other Unix systems, using
proper kernel support implemented via an autofs filesystem.
The automounter supports a standard map format, and will
integrate with the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
(LDAP) service.</p>
<p>The code is ready to use - it has been committed to 11-CURRENT
and 10-STABLE, and will ship as part of 10.1-RELEASE. There
is ongoing work on improving performance and fixing possible
bugs.</p>
</body>
<sponsor>
The &os; Foundation
</sponsor>
<help></help>
</project>
<project cat='proj'>
<title>Chelsio iSCSI Offload Support</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Sreenivasa</given>
<common>Honnur</common>
</name>
<email>shonnur@chelsio.com</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Edward Tomasz</given>
<common>Napiera&#322;a</common>
</name>
<email>trasz@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links></links>
<body>
<p>
Building on the new in-kernel iSCSI target and initiator stack
released in &os; 10.0, Chelsio Communications has begun
developing an offload interface to take advantage of the
hardware offload capabilities of Chelsio T4 and T5 10 and 40
gigabit Ethernet adapters.</p>
<p>The code implements hardware PDU offload for both target and
initiator. The iSCSI stack has been modified to provide
hardware-independent offload API, allowing offload drivers to
be loaded as kernel modules, and to provide mechanisms for the
system administrator to configure this feature. The project
is entering a testing phase. The code will be released under
the BSD license and is expected to be completed later in the
year and ship in &os; 10.2-RELEASE.</p>
</body>
<sponsor>
Chelsio Communications
</sponsor>
<sponsor>
The &os; Foundation
</sponsor>
<help>
<task>
<p>Complete testing</p>
</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='docs'>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Michael</given>
<common>Lucas</common>
</name>
<email>mwlucas@michaelwlucas.com</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://blather.michaelwlucas.com/archives/2088">book announcement</url>
<url href="http://blather.michaelwlucas.com/archives/2119">pre-pub availability announcement</url>
<url href="https://www.tiltedwindmillpress.com/?product=freebsd-mastery-storage-essentials">in-progress draft</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>Lucas is working on a series of small &os; books. The
first one, FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials, is underway,
and covers GEOM, gpart, MBR, UFS, GELI, GBDE, disk sector
alignment, and more. You can pre-order the book at a discount
from his web site, or wait for it to hit print and all major
ebook retailers.</p>
<p>Get status updates on his blog, or check @mwlauthor on
Twitter.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>
<p>Lucas needs to write faster.</p>
</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='ports'>
<title>Xfce</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>&os; Xfce Team</given>
</name>
<email>xfce@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/Xfce" />
<url href="http://www.redports.org/browser/olivierd/xfce4">devel repo</url>
<url href="https://people.freebsd.org/~olivierd/xfce4-4.11-screencast.webm">Video showing significant changes</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>Xfce is a free software desktop environment for Unix and
Unix-like platforms including &os;. It aims to be fast and
lightweight while still being visually appealing and easy to
use.</p>
<p>There were no major updates in the ports tree except cosmetic
changes (fix pkg-plist, switch to USES= libtool, and so
on).</p>
<p>Still, the Xfce team continues to keep each piece of the Xfce
Desktop up to date. That is why we are working on the next
stable release (no date scheduled).</p>
<p>Major changes will be:</p>
<ul>
<li>Switch to USES</li>
<li>Support of GTK2 (default toolkits) and GTK3
(optional)</li>
<li>GNOME like default icons theme</li>
<li>Enhance documentation (handbooks, FAQ)</li>
</ul>
<p>Below is a list of current ports in the devel repository (see
link).</p>
<ul>
<li>deskutils/xfce4-xkb-plugin 0.7.0</li>
<li>devel/xfce4-dev-tools 4.11.0</li>
<li>misc/xfce4-appfinder 4.11.0</li>
<li>multimedia/xfce4-parole 0.6.1 and 0.7.0</li>
<li>sysutils/garcon 0.3.0</li>
<li>sysutils/xfce4-settings 4.11.3</li>
<li>x11/libxfce4menu 4.11.1</li>
<li>x11/libxfce4util 4.11.0</li>
<li>x11-wm/xfce4-desktop 4.11.8</li>
<li>x11-wm/xfce4-panel 4.11.1</li>
<li>x11-wm/xfce4-session 4.11.0</li>
</ul>
<p>There are also two new ports</p>
<ul>
<li>deskutils/xfce4-volumed-pulse 0.2.0</li>
<li>x11/xfce4-dashboard 0.2.3 and 0.3.2</li>
</ul>
<p>For more details, please see our wiki page in the Links
section.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>
<p>Finish to patch ACPI helper (xfce4-power-manager).</p>
</task>
<task>
<p>Continue to work on documentation, especially the Porter's
Handbook and creating a FAQ).</p>
</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='docs'>
<title>ZFS Chapter of the Handbook</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Allan</given>
<common>Jude</common>
</name>
<email>allanjude@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Benedict</given>
<common>Reuschling</common>
</name>
<email>bcr@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Warren</given>
<common>Block</common>
</name>
<email>wblock@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/zfs.html">ZFS Section of the FreeBSD Handbook</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>ZFS is one of the premier features of &os; and the quality
of the documentation should match that of other important
features. Much of the original documentation from Sun and
Oracle has disappeared, moved, or is about the proprietary
version of ZFS. The OpenZFS project does not provide much
documentation and instead provides users with a few links,
including the &os; Handbook. New users have many questions
about ZFS and yet there exists a great deal more bad advice
about ZFS than proper documentation.</p>
<p>After over a year of work, a new ZFS chapter has been added
to the &os; Handbook. Over 20,000 words describing the
basics of creating, managing and maintaining a ZFS pool, as
well as using some of the advanced features like compression,
deduplication, and delegation. The chapter also contains a
glossary of terms, explaining a number of the concepts unique
to ZFS. The chapter also includes documentation of some of
the many sysctl variables that can be used to tune ZFS.</p>
<p>The remaining work is the FAQ section. To help users address
the most common questions or problems they might face with
ZFS. It would be useful to hear experiences, questions,
misconceptions, gotchas, stumbling blocks and suggestions for
the FAQ section from other users. Also, a use cases section
that highlights some of the cases where ZFS provides
advantages over traditional file systems.</p>
<p>Please send suggestions to the docs mailing list.</p>
</body>
<sponsor>ScaleEngine Inc.</sponsor>
<help>
<task>
<p>Technical review by Matt Ahrens (co-creator of
ZFS)</p>
</task>
<task>
<p>Improve delegation section</p>
</task>
<task>
<p>Improve tuning section, add recently added sysctls</p>
</task>
<task>
<p>Add section on jails and the jailed property</p>
</task>
<task>
<p>Add FAQ section</p>
</task>
<task>
<p>Add Use Cases section</p>
</task>
<task>
<p>General editing and review</p>
</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='proj'>
<title>Jenkins Continuous Integration for &os;</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Craig</given>
<common>Rodrigues</common>
</name>
<email>rodrigc@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>Jenkins Administrators</name>
<email>jenkins-admin@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>&os; Testing</name>
<email>freebsd-testing@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="https://jenkins.freebsd.org">Jenkins CI server in &os; cluster</url>
<url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/201405DevSummit/Jenkins">Jenkins working group at DevSummit</url>
<url href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2014/schedule/events/445.en.html">Jenkins presentation at BSDCan</url>
<url href="http://clang-analyzer.llvm.org/scan-build.html">clang static analyzer</url>
<url href="http://scan.freebsd.org">FreeBSD static analysis results</url>
<url href="http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2014_07_02-base_iso_100">BSD Now episode 44</url>
<url href="http://www.slideshare.net/CraigRodrigues1/libvirt-bhyve">livirt and bhyve"</url>
<url href="https://github.com/jmmv/kyua">Kyua testing framework</url>
<url href="https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-24521">Issue to update Jenkins to JNA 4.1.0 for FreeBSD</url>
<url href="https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/1387">Pull request #1 to upgrade JNA in Jenkins</url>
<url href="https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/1410">Pull request #2 to upgrade JNA in Jenkins</url>
<url href="http://jenkins.mouf.net/job/pkg/">Jenkins job for testing pkg</url>
<url href="https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=193499">yacc bug found by kyua</url>
<url href="https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=193246">IPv6 multicast join() problem found by Jenkins</url>
<url href="https://github.com/rodrigc/kyua/wiki/Quickstart-Guide">Kyua Quickstart Guide</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>In May, &a.rodrigc; led a working group <em>Continuous
Integration and Testing with Jenkins for &os;</em> at the
&os; Devsummit in Ottawa. &a.rodrigc; also gave a Jenkins
presentation at BSDCan.</p>
<p>At BSDCan, &a.rodrigc; had some discussions with &a.jmmv;
about how to better integrate &os; testing efforts with
Jenkins and kyua. As a result of this discussion, &a.jmmv;
enhanced the <tt>kyua</tt> testing framework with a
<tt>kyua report-junit</tt> command. This command takes kyua
test results and outputs a test report in JUnit XML format.
Jenkins can directly import JUnit XML test results and display
them nicely.</p>
<p>In June, &a.rodrigc; was interviewed for episode 44 of BSD
Now. The interview covered Jenkins and Continuous Integration
in the &os; project.</p>
<p>In July, &a.rodrigc; gave a presentation to the Bay Area &os;
Users Group (BAFUG), <em>Libvirt and bhyve</em>, based on
experience he had with those technologies when used with
Jenkins.</p>
<p>&a.lwhsu; set up a Jenkins job to run the LLVM scan-build
tool to perform static analysis of the &os; code, and make the
results availalble at <tt>scan.freebsd.org</tt>.</p>
<p>&a.swills; modified the Jenkins job which builds
<tt>pkg(8)</tt> to use the <tt>kyua report-junit</tt> command
to integrate <tt>pkg(8)</tt> test results in Jenkins.</p>
<p>Anthony Williams reported that the version of the Java
Native Access (JNA) library bundled with Jenkins has problems
on &os;. This causes problems with Jenkins using libpam and
other plugins which use JNA. Craig filed JENKINS-24521
against Jenkins. Craig submitted patches to Jenkins to update
Jenkins to use JNA 4.1.0, which has fixes for &os;. Github
pull request 1410 was accepted into Jenkins, while pull
request 1387 is pending.</p>
<p>&a.rodrigc; worked on automatically running the tests in the
&os; <tt>/usr/tests</tt> directory under Jenkins using the
<tt>kyua</tt> test framework. &a.rodrigc; provided feedback
to &a.jmmv; about <tt>kyua</tt> and &a.jmmv; incorporated some
of the feedback as bugfixes and feature enhancements to
<tt>kyua</tt>. &a.rodrigc; committed some fixes to &os; to
eliminate some test failures. One of the tests still results
in a crash in byacc. This is being tracked in PR 193499.
Thomas E. Dickey (byacc maintainer) submitted a patch to fix
the problem, and this has been committed to &os;.</p>
<p>&a.rodrigc; analyzed the cause of some startup errors in
Jenkins when opening a multicast socket. He had some
discussion with &a.bms; captured in PR 193246. The Java JDK
depends on functionality in Solaris where it is possible to
open an IPv4 multicast socket, but with an IPv4 multicast
address mapped to an IPv6 address. On Linux, there are
modifications to the JDK itself to work around this. &a.bms;
said that the work to make the &os; IPv6 stack behave like
Solaris would require some work.</p>
<p>&a.rodrigc; started writing a Kyua Quickstart Guide. This
guide is meant to help new kyua users who want to write tests
and run them under kyua. &a.rodrigc; is seeking feedback to
help improve this guide.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>
<p>Upstream more fixes to Jenkins for &os;, such as JNA
fixes.</p>
</task>
<task>
<p>Automate the build of <tt>/usr/tests</tt>.</p>
</task>
<task>
<p>Set up more builds based on examples from the existing &os;
Tinderbox.</p>
</task>
<task>
<p>Get feedback for improving the Kyua Quickstart Guide.</p>
</task>
<task>
<p>We need more people to join us on
freebsd-testing@FreeBSD.org and help out. We especially
need people with devops and scripting experience to help us
set up more builds and tests. We would also like to
integrate with other parts of the project, such as
Phabricator.</p>
</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='bin'>
<title>LLVM Address Sanitizer (Asan)</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Viktor</given>
<common>Kuzutov</common>
</name>
<email>vkutuzov@accesssoftek.com</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="https://code.google.com/p/address-sanitizer/" />
<url href="http://clang.llvm.org/docs/AddressSanitizer.html" />
<url href="http://lab.llvm.org:8011/builders/sanitizer_x86_64-freebsd">Buildbot</url>
<url href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2014-July/060270.html" />
<url href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2014-July/060504.html" />
</links>
<body>
<p>The LLVM address sanitizer (Asan) has been ported to &os;.
The mainline version of LLVM is known to pass all unit and lit
Asan tests without unexpected failures on &os; 10.0.</p>
<p>A buildbot running sanitizers tests under &os; stable/10
has been established. See the Links section.</p>
<p>In order to make it possible to run programs with sanitizers
checks enabled on &os; a new kernel state named
<tt>kern.proc_vmmap_skip_resident_count</tt> has been added.
See the Links section.</p>
<p>Note that running Asan tests on stable/10 requires that state
to be set to 1.</p>
<p>A similar work dedicated to add &os; support to the thread
sanitizer (Tsan) is in progress.</p>
</body>
</project>
<project cat='soc'>
<title>&os; Preseed Installation (PXE)</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Kamil</given>
<common>Czekirda</common>
</name>
<email>kczekirda@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2014/FreeBSD_PXE_preseed" />
</links>
<body>
<p>This is a Google Summer of code project that aims to provide
a noninteractive &os; installation from the network. In
the first part, an implementation was added for scripted
<tt>bsdinstall(8)</tt>. It supports variables like: KEYMAP,
HOSTNAME, MIRROR, RELEASE, TIMEZONE, DAEMONS, ROOTPWHASH, and
USERS. Network configuration, ZFS options, and others are
also included.</p>
<p>Second part of project is about booting the fai (Fully
Automatic Installer) from network by PXE. Made installer
distro based on mfsbsd. After boot fai looks for
"bootfile-name" parameter from DHCP server which tell fai
where bsdinstall script located is. Fai supports mac-based
config or default, if mac-based file does not exist.</p>
</body>
<sponsor>
Google Summer of Code 2014
</sponsor>
<help>
<task>
<p>Documentation, including a howto and handbook. The project
needs more tests in different configurations. Support for
more than one network interface is planned.</p>
</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='ports'>
<title>GNOME/&os;</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<common>&os; GNOME Team </common>
</name>
<email>gnome@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://www.freebsd.org/gnome" />
<url href="https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Jhbuild/FreeBSD" />
<url href="http://marcuscom.com/downloads/marcusmerge" />
</links>
<body>
<p>GNOME is a desktop environment and graphical user interface
that runs on top of a computer operating system. GNOME is
part of the GNU Project and can be used with various Unix-like
operating systems, including &os;.</p>
<p>The MATE ports were updated to the 1.8 versions.</p>
<p>Now that cairo was updated to 1.12 the merge of GNOME 3 has
started. Currently we are doing test builds to find ports
broken by the update and pruning ports that do not build
any more because of incompatible updates.</p>
<p>Gustau Perez started preliminary work on the next development
version of GNOME in MC, to be ready for GNOME 3.15. We will
skip 3.14 entirely.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>
<p>Finish GNOME 3.12 merge, and start tracking GNOME 3.15
(development series).</p>
</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat="ports">
<title>The Graphics Stack on &os;</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<common>&os; Graphics team</common>
</name>
<email>x11@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics">Graphics stack roadmap and supported hardware matrix</url>
<url href="http://trillian.chruetertee.ch/ports/browser/trunk">Graphics stack ports-related development repository</url>
<url href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports-announce/2014-October/000096.html">Removal of legacy X.Org announcement</url>
<url href="http://wiki.x.org/wiki/Events/XDC2014/">XDC 2014</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>The newest graphics stack (that is, ports behind the
WITH_NEW_XORG knob) was enabled on all architectures. The
only regression is for users of Intel GPUs and &os; 8.X or
9.0. Those releases lack the required kernel driver and
therefore <tt>xf86-video-intel</tt> will not work (the last
UMS-aware version does not work with xserver 1.12). Users can
still use <tt>xf86-video-vesa</tt> if they cannot or do not
want to update their &os; workstation. Owners of Radeon GPUs
can use <tt>xf86-video-ati-ums</tt> 6.14.6 with
<tt>xserver</tt> 1.12 if the KMS driver is not available (that
is, before &os; 9.3).</p>
<p>The old graphics stack will be removed with the next update
to these ports. See the announcement in the Links
section.</p>
<p>Hardware context support was added to the i915 driver in both
HEAD and 10.1-RELEASE. This will allow us to update libglapi,
libGL, dri, libEGL and libglesv2 ports to a newer version of
Mesa. The latest version is already available from our
development ports tree (see the links section).</p>
<p>Cairo was updated to 1.12. This will allow the &os; GNOME
team to upgrade pango and Gtk+ 3. Unfortunately, the update
also revealed that xf86-video-intel 2.7.1 was in a much worse
state than previously assumed.</p>
<p>We will attend XDC 2014 (X.Org Developer's Conference) from
October 8th through 10th in Bordeaux, France. The goal is to
reconnect with graphics stack developers, mostly working with
Linux these days. We will give a presentation on the current
state of this stack on &os;. See the XDC website in the Links
section for the program and live streaming.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>
<p>See the "Graphics" wiki page for up-to-date
information.</p>
</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='proj'>
<title>ZFSguru</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Jason</given>
<common>Edwards</common>
</name>
<email>sub.mesa@gmail.com</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://zfsguru.com" />
<url href="http://zfsguru.com/news/stateoftheproject/2014" />
<url href="http://zfsguru.com/forum/zfsgurudevelopment/876" />
</links>
<body>
<p>ZFSguru is a multifunctional server appliance with a strong
emphasis on storage. ZFSguru began as simple web-interface
frontend to ZFS, but has since grown into a &os; derivative
with its own infrastructure. The scope of the project has
also grown with the inclusion of add-on packages that add
functionality beyond the traditional NAS functionality found
in similar product like FreeNAS and NAS4Free. ZFSguru aims to
be a true multifunctional server appliance that is extremely
easy to set up and can unite both novice and more experienced
users in a single user interface. The modular nature of the
project combats the danger of bloat, whilst still allowing
extended functionality to be easily deployed.</p>
<p>The development work in Q3 focused heavily on the new build
infrastructure. This allows the ZFSguru project to release
new system images together with addon services at much higher
frequency and with much less manual intervention. This should
free up a lot of development time to be spent on the core of
the project: the web-interface.</p>
<p>Furthermore, a new website and forum is being worked at,
replacing the old-fashioned website that offers only limited
functionality. The new website will be linked to the server
database, providing real-time updates about the project.</p>
<p>In addition, a new platform for collaborated development is
in the works. A service addon has been created for the GitLab
project, which is a drop-in replacement of the popular GitHub
website. The choice was made to host our own solution and not
rely on GitHub itself. In retrospect this appears to have
been a good decision. The recent development where GitHub
removed projects after DCMA-takedowns being sent is
incompatible with the philosophy of free-flow-of-information,
of which the ZFSguru project is a strong proponent. By
hosting our own solution, we have avoided any dependency on
third party projects.</p>
<p>The next task will be to introduce a new remote database
structure, dubbed GuruDB. This will speed up the
web-interface as well as introduce Service Bulletins which
address important notifications to our users, as well as
announce new releases.</p>
<p>After GuruDB, the Migration Manager is one of the last
remaining features still missing in the web-interface. This
functionality provides an easy way to upgrade the current
system by performing a new clean installation, but migrate all
relevant configuration to the new installation. It also
allows users to 'backup' all system configuration in a single
file to be stored on a different machine should things go
awry.</p>
<p>A longer version of the 2014 development progress of the
ZFSguru project and information specific to the newly-released
10.1-002 system image can be found in the Links section.</p>
</body>
</project>
<project cat='ports'>
<title>&os; Python Ports</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>&os;</given>
<common>Python Team</common>
</name>
<email>python@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/Python">The FreeBSD Python Team Page</url>
<url href="irc://freebsd-python@irc.freenode.net">IRC channel</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>The &os; Python team continued to improve the overall
experience with Python-based software on &os;.</p>
<p>During the last quarter, the <tt>bsd.python.mk</tt> bits of
the ports infrastructure were converted to the more modern
<tt>USES</tt> format. Several options, such as support for
<tt>easy_install</tt>, were deprecated or removed to make the
infrastructure easier to maintain and less complex for
maintainers.</p>
<p>The Python ports were refactored and simplified to improve
maintenance and to get rid of long-standing issues due to the
previously complex and error-prone build process.</p>
<p>The Python 2 branch was updated to Python 2.7.8 and
<tt>setuptools</tt> to 5.5.1.</p>
<p>With the availability of pkg 1.3, installing Python packages
and modules for different Python versions is now supported in
the package management infrastructure. This allows us to
remove the previously required port duplicates for Python 2
and Python 3.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>
<p>Retire the Python 3 specific port duplicates</p>
</task>
<task>
<p>Convert ports to the new <tt>USES</tt> syntax</p>
</task>
<task>
<p>More tasks can be found on the team's wiki page (see
Links).</p>
</task>
<task>
<p>To get involved, interested people can say hello on IRC
and let us know their areas of interest!</p>
</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='kern'>
<title>Updating OpenCrypto</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>John-Mark</given>
<common>Gurney</common>
</name>
<email>jmg@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="https://p4db.freebsd.org/depotTreeBrowser.cgi?FSPC=//depot/projects/opencrypto">Source in Perforce</url>
<url href="http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2014/08/freebsd-foundation-announces-ipsec.html">FreeBSD Foundation announces IPsec Enhancement Project</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>The project adds support for AES-GCM and AES-CTR mode to the
OpenCrypto framework. Both software and AES-NI accelerated
versions are functional and working. Ermal Luçi (eri@) is
working on adding support for the additional modes to
IPsec.</p>
</body>
<sponsor>
The FreeBSD Foundation
</sponsor>
<sponsor>
Netgate
</sponsor>
<help>
<task>
<p>Create test suite for the most common modes.</p>
</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='arch'>
<title>&os; on Newer ARM Boards</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Ganbold</given>
<common>Tsagaankhuu</common>
</name>
<email>ganbold@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="https://github.com/tsgan/qualcomm">Some preliminary codes for Snapdragon board IFC6410</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>Work on initial support of the IFC6410 board,which was
stopped due to bricked bootloader, has been started again.
This board has the Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 SoC, featuring the
Krait CPU. This CPU is considered a "platform" for use in
smartphones, tablets, and smartbook devices. Krait has many
similarities with the ARM Cortex-A15 CPU and is also based on
the ARMv7 instruction set. These peripherals are working:</p>
<ul>
<li>Qualcomm High Speed UART driver for MSM 7000/8000 series
chips (included in <tt>src</tt> tree)</li>
<li>Krait Timer</li>
</ul>
</body>
<help>
<task>
<p>Get MMC driver working. May need more help from
experts.</p>
</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>Notable items dealt with by core during this period:</p>
<ul>
<li>Confirmed that DCTCP, although patented by Microsoft, was
permissible to commit to FreeBSD.</li>
<li>Promoted git-beta.freebsd.org out of beta-test to an
official service, consequently renaming it to
git.freebsd.org.</li>
<li>Mediated between groups of contributors and committers
adopting different positions on the on-going work to
introduce ASLR and associated technologies.</li>
<li>Worked with the &os; Foundation to obtain a license for
XenForo, and with the Forum administrators on plans to migrate
the FreeBSD forums onto the FreeBSD cluster and to switch to
XenForo.</li>
</ul>
<p>During this period, three commit bits were granted, and two
commit bits were taken in for safe keeping.</p>
</body>
</project>
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