Call for FreeBSD 2013-Q1 status reports!
Hi all, On behalf of monthly@, I would like to inform you that the next submission date for the January to March quarterly status reports is April 21st, 2013 - less than a month away. They don't have to be very long - anything that lets people know what is going on inside FreeBSD is useful. Note that submission of reports is not restricted to committers - anyone who is doing anything interesting and FreeBSD-related can write one! The preferred and easiest submission method is to use the XML generator linked to from http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/status.html, with the result emailed as an attachment to mont...@freebsd.org. On that page, there is also a link to an XML template which can be filled out manually and attached if preferred. To enable compilation and publication of the Q1 report as soon as possible after the April 21st deadline, please be prompt with any report submissions you may have. I look forward to compiling the report for 2013 Q1. Many thanks, Isabell. (Hat: monthly@) ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report, July-September 2012.
FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report, July-September 2012. Introduction This report covers FreeBSD-related projects between July and September 2012. This is the third of the four reports planned for 2012. Highlights from this quarter include successful participation in Google Summer of Code, major work in areas of the source and ports trees, and a Developer Summit attended by over 30 developers. Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report contains 12 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it. __ Projects * FreeBSD on Altera FPGAs * Native iSCSI Target * Parallel rc.d execution FreeBSD Team Reports * FreeBSD Bugbusting Team * FreeBSD Foundation * The FreeBSD Core Team Kernel * FreeBSD on ARMv6/ARMv7 Documentation * The FreeBSD Japanese Documentation Project Ports * KDE/FreeBSD * Ports Collection Miscellaneous * FreeBSD Developer Summit, Cambridge, UK FreeBSD in Google Summer of Code * Google Summer of Code 2012 __ FreeBSD Bugbusting Team URL: http://www.FreeBSD.org/support.html#gnats URL: https://wiki.freebsd.org/BugBusting Contact: Eitan Adler ead...@freebsd.org Contact: Gavin Atkinson ga...@freebsd.org Contact: Oleksandr Tymoshenko go...@freebsd.org In August, Eitan Adler (eadler@) and Oleksandr Tymoshenko (gonzo@) joined the Bugmeister team. At the same time, Remko Lodder and Volker Werth stepped down. We extend our thanks to Volker and Remko for their work in the past, and welcome Oleksandr and Eitan. Eitan and Oleksandr have been working hard on migrating from GNATS, and have made significant progress on evaluating new software, and creating scripts to export data from GNATS. The bugbusting team continue work on trying to make the contents of the GNATS PR database cleaner, more accessible and easier for committers to find and resolve PRs, by tagging PRs to indicate the areas involved, and by ensuring that there is sufficient info within each PR to resolve each issue. As always, anybody interested in helping out with the PR queue is welcome to join us in #freebsd-bugbusters on EFnet. We are always looking for additional help, whether your interests lie in triaging incoming PRs, generating patches to resolve existing problems, or simply helping with the database housekeeping (identifying duplicate PRs, ones that have already been resolved, etc). This is a great way of getting more involved with FreeBSD! Open tasks: 1. Further research into tools suitable to replace GNATS. 2. Get more users involved with triaging PRs as they come in. 3. Assist committers with closing PRs. __ FreeBSD Developer Summit, Cambridge, UK URL: https://wiki.freebsd.org/201208DevSummit Contact: Robert Watson rwat...@freebsd.org In the end of August, there was an off-season Developer Summit held in Cambridge, UK at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. This was a three-day event, with a documentation summit scheduled for the day before. The three days of the main event were split into three sessions, with two tracks in each. Some of them even involved ARM developers from the neighborhoods which proven to be productive, and led to further engagement between the FreeBSD community and ARM. The schedule was finalized on the first day, spawning a plethora of topics to discuss, followed by splitting into groups. A short summary from each of the groups was presented in the final session and then published at the event's home page on the FreeBSD wiki. This summit contributed greatly to arriving to a tentative plan for throwing the switch to make clang the default compiler on HEAD. This was further discussed on the mailing list, and has now happened, bringing us one big step closer to a GPL-free FreeBSD 10. As part of the program, an afternoon of short talks from researchers in the Cambridge Computer Laboratory involved either operating systems work in general or FreeBSD in particular. Robert Watson showed off a tablet running FreeBSD on a MIPS-compatible soft-core processor running on an Altera FPGA. In association with the event, a dinner was hosted by St. John's college and co-sponsored by Google and the FreeBSD Foundation. The day after the conference, a trip was organized to Bletchley Park, which was celebrating Turing's centenary in 2012. __ FreeBSD Foundation URL: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/press/2012Jul-newsletter.shtml Contact: Deb Goodkin d...@freebsdfoundation.org The Foundation hosted and sponsored the Cambridge FreeBSD developer summit in
FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report, October-December 2012.
FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report, October-December 2012. Introduction This report covers FreeBSD-related projects between October and December 2012. This is the last of four reports planned for 2012. Highlights from this status report include a very successful EuroBSDCon 2012 conference and associated FreeBSD Developer Summit, both held in Warsaw, Poland. Other highlights are several projects related to the FreeBSD port to the ARM architecture, extending support for platforms, boards and CPUs, improvements to the performance of the pf(4) firewall, and a new native iSCSI target. Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report contains 27 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it. The deadline for submissions covering the period between January and March 2013 is April 21st, 2013. __ Projects * BHyVe * Native iSCSI Target * NFS Version 4 * pxe_http -- booting FreeBSD from apache * UEFI * Unprivileged install and image creation Userland Programs * BSD-licenced patch(1) * bsdconfig(8) FreeBSD Team Reports * FreeBSD Core Team * FreeBSD Documentation Engineering * FreeBSD Foundation * Postmaster Kernel * AMD GPUs kernel-modesetting support * Common Flash Interface (CFI) driver improvements * SMP-Friendly pf(4) * Unmapped I/O Documentation * The FreeBSD Japanese Documentation Project Architectures * Compiler improvements for FreeBSD/ARMv6 * FreeBSD on AARCH64 * FreeBSD on BeagleBone * FreeBSD on Raspberry Pi Ports * FreeBSD Haskell Ports * KDE/FreeBSD * Ports Collection * Xfce Miscellaneous * EuroBSDcon 2012 * FreeBSD Developer Summit, Warsaw __ AMD GPUs kernel-modesetting support URL: https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/AMD_GPU URL: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~kib/misc/ttm.1.patch Contact: Alexander Kabaev k...@freebsd.org Contact: Jean-Sébastien Pédron dumbb...@freebsd.org Contact: Konstantin Belousov k...@freebsd.org Jean-Sébastien Pédron started to port the AMD GPUs driver from Linux to FreeBSD 10-CURRENT in January 2013. This work is based on a previous effort by Alexander Kabaev. Konstantin Belousov provided the initial port of the TTM memory manager. As of this writing, the driver is building but the tested device fails to attach. Status updates will be posted to the FreeBSD wiki. __ BHyVe URL: https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/BHyVe URL: http://www.bhyve.org/ Contact: Neel Natu n...@freebsd.org Contact: Peter Grehan gre...@freebsd.org BHyVe is a type-2 hypervisor for FreeBSD/amd64 hosts with Intel VT-x and EPT CPU support. The bhyve project branch was merged into CURRENT on Jan 18. Work is progressing on performance, ease of use, AMD SVM support, and being able to run non-FreeBSD operating systems. Open tasks: 1. 1. Booting Linux/*BSD/Windows 2. 2. Moving the codebase to a more modular design consisting of a small base and loadable modules 3. 3. Various hypervisor features such as suspend/resume/live migration/sparse disk support __ BSD-licenced patch(1) URL: http://code.google.com/p/bsd-patch/ Contact: Pedro Giffuni p...@freebsd.org Contact: Gabor Kovesdan ga...@freebsd.org Contact: Xin Li delp...@freebsd.org FreeBSD has been using for a while a very old version of GNU patch that is partially under the GPLv2. The original GNU patch utility is based on an initial implementation by Larry Wall that was not actually copyleft. OpenBSD did many enhancements to an older non-copyleft version of patch, this version was later adopted and further refined by DragonFlyBSD and NetBSD but there was no centralized development of the tool and FreeBSD kept working independently. In less than a week we took the version in DragonFlyBSD and adapted the FreeBSD enhancements to make it behave nearer to the version used natively in FreeBSD. Most of the work was done by Pedro Giffuni, adapting patches from sepotvin@ and ed@, and additional contributions were done by Christoph Mallon, Gabor Kovesdan and Xin Li. As a result of this we now have a new version of patch committed in head/usr.bin/patch that you can try by using WITH_BSD_PATCH in your builds. The new patch(1) doesn't support the FreeBSD-specific -I and -S options which don't seem necessary. In GNU patch -I actually means 'ignore whitespaces' and we now support it too. Open tasks: 1. Testing. A lot more testing. __ bsdconfig(8) URL:
