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Author: gabor Date: Wed May 15 14:07:01 2013 New Revision: 41632 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/41632 Log: - MFH Added: projects/xml-tools/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-01-2013-03.xml - copied unchanged from r41631, head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-01-2013-03.xml Deleted: projects/xml-tools/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/docproj/sgml.xml projects/xml-tools/ja_JP.eucJP/htdocs/docproj/sgml.xml Modified: projects/xml-tools/de_DE.ISO8859-1/htdocs/docs/books.xml projects/xml-tools/de_DE.ISO8859-1/share/xml/news.xml projects/xml-tools/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/contrib.additional.xml projects/xml-tools/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/mailing-list-faq/article.xml projects/xml-tools/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/new-users/article.xml projects/xml-tools/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml projects/xml-tools/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/community/irc.xml projects/xml-tools/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/community/webresources.xml projects/xml-tools/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/docproj/Makefile projects/xml-tools/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/docproj/docproj.xml projects/xml-tools/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/features.xml projects/xml-tools/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/Makefile projects/xml-tools/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/status.xml projects/xml-tools/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/8.4R/schedule.xml projects/xml-tools/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/index.xml projects/xml-tools/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releng/index.xml projects/xml-tools/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/security/security.xml projects/xml-tools/ja_JP.eucJP/books/handbook/users/chapter.xml projects/xml-tools/ja_JP.eucJP/htdocs/community/webresources.xml projects/xml-tools/ja_JP.eucJP/htdocs/docproj/Makefile projects/xml-tools/ja_JP.eucJP/htdocs/docproj/docproj.xml projects/xml-tools/ja_JP.eucJP/htdocs/java/index.xml projects/xml-tools/ja_JP.eucJP/htdocs/java/news.xml projects/xml-tools/ja_JP.eucJP/htdocs/releases/index.xml projects/xml-tools/ja_JP.eucJP/htdocs/security/security.xml projects/xml-tools/ja_JP.eucJP/share/xml/news.xml projects/xml-tools/nl_NL.ISO8859-1/articles/Makefile projects/xml-tools/nl_NL.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/book.xml projects/xml-tools/nl_NL.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/jails/chapter.xml projects/xml-tools/nl_NL.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors/chapter.xml projects/xml-tools/nl_NL.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/pgpkeys/chapter.xml projects/xml-tools/nl_NL.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/security/chapter.xml projects/xml-tools/nl_NL.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11/chapter.xml projects/xml-tools/nl_NL.ISO8859-1/htdocs/administration.xml projects/xml-tools/nl_NL.ISO8859-1/htdocs/features.xml projects/xml-tools/nl_NL.ISO8859-1/htdocs/where.xml projects/xml-tools/nl_NL.ISO8859-1/share/xml/mailing-lists.ent projects/xml-tools/nl_NL.ISO8859-1/share/xml/navibar.l10n.ent projects/xml-tools/ru_RU.KOI8-R/articles/mailing-list-faq/Makefile projects/xml-tools/ru_RU.KOI8-R/articles/mailing-list-faq/article.xml projects/xml-tools/ru_RU.KOI8-R/articles/new-users/Makefile projects/xml-tools/ru_RU.KOI8-R/articles/new-users/article.xml projects/xml-tools/share/xml/commercial.isp.xml projects/xml-tools/share/xml/mirrors.xml projects/xml-tools/share/xml/news.xml projects/xml-tools/share/xml/release.ent Directory Properties: projects/xml-tools/ (props changed) projects/xml-tools/de_DE.ISO8859-1/ (props changed) projects/xml-tools/en_US.ISO8859-1/ (props changed) projects/xml-tools/ja_JP.eucJP/ (props changed) projects/xml-tools/nl_NL.ISO8859-1/ (props changed) projects/xml-tools/ru_RU.KOI8-R/ (props changed) projects/xml-tools/share/ (props changed) Modified: projects/xml-tools/de_DE.ISO8859-1/htdocs/docs/books.xml ============================================================================== --- projects/xml-tools/de_DE.ISO8859-1/htdocs/docs/books.xml Wed May 15 13:42:25 2013 (r41631) +++ projects/xml-tools/de_DE.ISO8859-1/htdocs/docs/books.xml Wed May 15 14:07:01 2013 (r41632) @@ -161,10 +161,6 @@ CVSROOT-Infrastruktur wie der des FreeBSD Projects einrichtet.</p> - <p><a href="&url.articles;/cvsup-advanced/index.html">CVSup - Advanced Points</a> (cvsup-advanced)<br/> - Ein Artikel, der die Feinheiten von CVSup beschreibt.</p> - <p><a href="&url.articles.de;/explaining-bsd/index.html"> Hintergrundwissen zu BSD</a> (explaining-bsd)<br/> Eine Antwort auf die Frage: "Was ist BSD?"</p> @@ -192,7 +188,7 @@ Tipps und Tricks, wie man am besten die gewünschten Informationen von der Mailingliste -questions erhält.</p> - <p><a href="&url.articles;/freebsd-update-server/index.html">Build + <p><a href="&url.articles.de;/freebsd-update-server/index.html">Build Your Own FreeBSD Update Server</a> (freebsd-update-server)<br/> Der Einsatz eines FreeBSD Update-Servers erlaubt es Systemadministratoren, Updates für mehrere Maschinen Modified: projects/xml-tools/de_DE.ISO8859-1/share/xml/news.xml ============================================================================== --- projects/xml-tools/de_DE.ISO8859-1/share/xml/news.xml Wed May 15 13:42:25 2013 (r41631) +++ projects/xml-tools/de_DE.ISO8859-1/share/xml/news.xml Wed May 15 14:07:01 2013 (r41632) @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ <!-- $FreeBSD$ $FreeBSDde$ - basiert auf: r41524 + basiert auf: r41569 --> <!-- Simple schema for FreeBSD Project news. @@ -39,6 +39,26 @@ <name>2013</name> <month> + <name>5</name> + + <day> + <name>8</name> + + <event> + <title>&os; 8.4-RC3 verfügbar</title> + + <p>Der dritte Release Candidate aus dem &os;-8.4-Releasezyklus + ist <a + href="&lists.stable;/2013-May/073389.html">verfügbar</a>. + ISO-Images für die Architekturen amd64, i386 sowie + pc98 sind inzwischen auf den meisten <a + href="&enbase;/doc/de_DE.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html">&os; + Spiegelservern</a> vorhanden.</p> + </event> + </day> + </month> + + <month> <name>4</name> <day> Modified: projects/xml-tools/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/contrib.additional.xml ============================================================================== --- projects/xml-tools/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/contrib.additional.xml Wed May 15 13:42:25 2013 (r41631) +++ projects/xml-tools/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/contrib.additional.xml Wed May 15 14:07:01 2013 (r41632) @@ -9248,7 +9248,7 @@ <listitem> <para>Sergei Vyshenski - <email>svysh@pn.sinp.msu.ru</email></para> + <email>svysh.fbsd@gmail.com</email></para> </listitem> <listitem> Modified: projects/xml-tools/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/mailing-list-faq/article.xml ============================================================================== --- projects/xml-tools/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/mailing-list-faq/article.xml Wed May 15 13:42:25 2013 (r41631) +++ projects/xml-tools/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/mailing-list-faq/article.xml Wed May 15 14:07:01 2013 (r41632) @@ -306,14 +306,6 @@ <itemizedlist> <listitem> - <para>cc:Mail</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>&eudora; (older versions)</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> <para>exmh</para> </listitem> @@ -322,22 +314,11 @@ </listitem> <listitem> - <para>µsoft; Internet Mail</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> <para>µsoft; &outlook;</para> </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>&netscape; (older versions)</para> - </listitem> </itemizedlist> - <para>As you can see, the mailers in the Microsoft world - are frequent offenders. If at all possible, use a &unix; - mailer. If you must use a mailer under Microsoft - environments, make sure it is set up correctly. Try not + <para>Try not to use <acronym>MIME</acronym>: a lot of people use mailers which do not get on very well with <acronym>MIME</acronym>.</para> Modified: projects/xml-tools/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/new-users/article.xml ============================================================================== --- projects/xml-tools/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/new-users/article.xml Wed May 15 13:42:25 2013 (r41631) +++ projects/xml-tools/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/new-users/article.xml Wed May 15 14:07:01 2013 (r41632) @@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ &tm-attrib.freebsd; &tm-attrib.ibm; &tm-attrib.microsoft; - &tm-attrib.netscape; &tm-attrib.opengroup; &tm-attrib.general; </legalnotice> @@ -854,24 +853,18 @@ your network running yet and there was no file for the port in <filename>/cdrom/ports/distfiles</filename>, you will have to get the distfile using another machine and copy it to - <filename>/usr/ports/distfiles</filename> from a floppy or your - DOS partition. Read <filename>Makefile</filename> (with + <filename>/usr/ports/distfiles</filename>. + Read <filename>Makefile</filename> (with <command>cat</command> or <command>more</command> or <command>view</command>) to find out where to go (the master - distribution site) to get the file and what its name is. Its - name will be truncated when downloaded to DOS, and after you get - it into <filename>/usr/ports/distfiles</filename> you will have to - rename it (with the <command>mv</command> command) to its - original name so it can be found. (Use binary file transfers!) + distribution site) to get the file and what its name is. + (Use binary file transfers!) Then go back to <filename>/usr/local/kermit</filename>, find the directory with <filename>Makefile</filename>, and type <command>make all install</command>.</para> <para>The other thing that happens when installing ports or - packages is that some other program is needed. If the - installation stops with a message <errorname>can't find - unzip</errorname> or whatever, you might need to install the - package or port for unzip before you continue.</para> + packages is that some other program is needed.</para> <para>Once it is installed type <command>rehash</command> to make FreeBSD reread the files in the path so it knows what is there. @@ -885,37 +878,6 @@ want is in the directory you are in, you need to type <filename>./</filename> before the command to make it work; no space after the slash.)</para> - - <para>You might want to get the most recent version of &netscape; - from their <ulink url="ftp://ftp.netscape.com/">FTP site</ulink>. - (&netscape; requires the X Window System.) There is now a FreeBSD - version, so look around carefully. Just use <command>gunzip - <replaceable>filename</replaceable></command> and <command>tar - xvf <replaceable>filename</replaceable></command> on it, move - the binary to <filename>/usr/local/bin</filename> or some other - place binaries are kept, <command>rehash</command>, and then put - the following lines in <filename>.cshrc</filename> in each - user's home directory or (easier) in - <filename>/etc/csh.cshrc</filename>, the system-wide - <command>csh</command> start-up file:</para> - - <informalexample> - <programlisting>setenv XKEYSYMDB /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB -setenv XNLSPATH /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/nls</programlisting> - </informalexample> - - <para>This assumes that the file <filename>XKeysymDB</filename> - and the directory <filename>nls</filename> are in - <filename>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11</filename>; if they are not, find - them and put them there.</para> - - <para>If you originally got &netscape; as a port using the CDROM (or - FTP), do not replace <filename>/usr/local/bin/netscape</filename> - with the new netscape binary; this is just a shell script that - sets up the environment variables for you. Instead rename the - new binary to <filename>netscape.bin</filename> and replace the - old binary, which is - <filename>/usr/local/netscape/netscape</filename>.</para> </sect1> <sect1 id="your-working-environment"> Modified: projects/xml-tools/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml ============================================================================== --- projects/xml-tools/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Wed May 15 13:42:25 2013 (r41631) +++ projects/xml-tools/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Wed May 15 14:07:01 2013 (r41632) @@ -1674,28 +1674,6 @@ </qandaentry> <qandaentry> - <question id="smp-support"> - <para>Does &os; support Symmetric Multiprocessing - (SMP)?</para> - </question> - - <answer> - <para>Symmetric multi-processor (SMP) systems are generally - supported by &os;, although in some cases, BIOS or - motherboard bugs may generate some problems.</para> - - <para>&os; will take advantage of HyperThreading (HTT) - support on &intel; CPUs that support this feature. A kernel - with the <literal>options SMP</literal> option, enabled - by default, - will automatically detect the additional logical - processors.</para> - - <para>&man.smp.4; has more details.</para> - </answer> - </qandaentry> - - <qandaentry> <question id="microcode"> <para>What is microcode? How do I install &intel; CPU microcode updates?</para> @@ -1755,11 +1733,7 @@ <answer> <para>&os; supports SCSI and QIC-36 (with a QIC-02 - interface). This includes 8-mm (aka Exabyte) and DAT - drives.</para> - - <para>Some of the early 8-mm drives are not quite compatible - with SCSI-2, and may not work well with &os;.</para> + interface).</para> </answer> </qandaentry> @@ -2046,7 +2020,7 @@ bindkey ^[[3~ delete-char # for xterm</p system, it may also be buggy code, but more often than not these problems are found and fixed long before us general FAQ readers get to use these bits of code (that - is what -current is for).</para> + is what -CURRENT is for).</para> </listitem> </orderedlist> @@ -2823,22 +2797,6 @@ kern.timecounter.hardware: TSC -> i82 </qandaentry> <qandaentry> - <question id="database-systems"> - <para>Are there any Database systems for &os;?</para> - </question> - - <answer> - <para>Yes! See the <ulink - url="&url.base;/commercial/software_bycat.html#category_database">Commercial Vendors</ulink> - section of &os;'s Web site.</para> - - <para>Also see the <ulink - url="&url.base;/ports/databases.html">Databases</ulink> - section of the Ports Collection.</para> - </answer> - </qandaentry> - - <qandaentry> <question id="convert-back-from-pkgng"> <para>How can I convert from pkgng to the old package tools?</para> Modified: projects/xml-tools/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/community/irc.xml ============================================================================== --- projects/xml-tools/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/community/irc.xml Wed May 15 13:42:25 2013 (r41631) +++ projects/xml-tools/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/community/irc.xml Wed May 15 14:07:01 2013 (r41632) @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ want to try these or any other channels on IRC, it is nonetheless at your own risk and any complaints about conduct on those channels should not be directed to the FreeBSD project. See also - <a href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/support.html#IRC">the FAQ entry</a> for + <a href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/support.html#irc">the FAQ entry</a> for more information.</p> Modified: projects/xml-tools/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/community/webresources.xml ============================================================================== --- projects/xml-tools/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/community/webresources.xml Wed May 15 13:42:25 2013 (r41631) +++ projects/xml-tools/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/community/webresources.xml Wed May 15 14:07:01 2013 (r41632) @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ <li><a href="http://www.FreeBSD-fr.org/">French</a></li>; - <li><a href="http://www.hu.FreeBSD.org/hu/">Hungarian</a></li>; + <li><a href="http://bsd.hu/">Hungarian</a></li>; <li><a href="http://www.FreeBSD.or.id">Indonesian</a></li>; Modified: projects/xml-tools/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/docproj/Makefile ============================================================================== --- projects/xml-tools/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/docproj/Makefile Wed May 15 13:42:25 2013 (r41631) +++ projects/xml-tools/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/docproj/Makefile Wed May 15 14:07:01 2013 (r41632) @@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ DOCS= current.xml DOCS+= doc-set.xml DOCS+= handbook.xml DOCS+= handbook3.xml -DOCS+= sgml.xml DOCS+= submitting.xml DOCS+= who.xml DOCS+= translations.xml Modified: projects/xml-tools/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/docproj/docproj.xml ============================================================================== --- projects/xml-tools/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/docproj/docproj.xml Wed May 15 13:42:25 2013 (r41631) +++ projects/xml-tools/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/docproj/docproj.xml Wed May 15 14:07:01 2013 (r41632) @@ -65,12 +65,6 @@ <p>This page outlines the components of the FreeBSD Documentation Set, and the sort of work that the Documentation Project does with them.</p> - <h2><a href="sgml.html">SGML and the Documentation Project</a></h2> - - <p>The project uses SGML for the documentation. This page - outlines how this is accomplished, and directs the interested reader to - further SGML resources.</p> - <h2><a href="submitting.html">Submitting Documentation</a></h2> <p>Submitting documentation is the best way to become a part of the Modified: projects/xml-tools/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/features.xml ============================================================================== --- projects/xml-tools/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/features.xml Wed May 15 13:42:25 2013 (r41631) +++ projects/xml-tools/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/features.xml Wed May 15 14:07:01 2013 (r41632) @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional-Based Extension//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/doc/share/xml/xhtml10-freebsd.dtd" [ -<!ENTITY title "About FreeBSD's Technological Advances"> +<!ENTITY title "About &os;'s Technological Advances"> ]> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">; @@ -63,8 +63,8 @@ per-process, per-jail, and per-login class resource accounting information. Note that this is neither built nor installed by default. To build and install this, specify - options RACCT in the kernel configuration file and rebuild - the base system as described in the FreeBSD Handbook</li> + the option RACCT in the kernel configuration file and rebuild + the base system as described in the &os; Handbook.</li> <li><b>Resource-limiting API:</b> has been implemented. It works in conjunction with the RACCT resource accounting @@ -74,9 +74,9 @@ rules in userland. Note that this is neither built nor installed by default.</li> - <li><b>Usb:</b> subsystem now supports USB packet filter. + <li><b>USB:</b> subsystem now supports USB packet filter. This allows capturing packets which go through each USB - host rchitecture of the packet filter is similar to that of + host. The architecture of the packet filter is similar to that of bpf. The userland program usbdump(8) has been added.</li> @@ -102,9 +102,9 @@ for background fsck(8) even on unclean shutdowns.</li> </ul> - <p><b>&os; 8.x</b> brought many new + <p><b>&os; 8.X</b> brought many new features and performance enhancements. With special focus on - a new USB stack, &os;-8.x also shipped with experimental support + a new USB stack, &os; 8.X also shipped with experimental support for NFSv4. A new TTY layer was introduced, which improves scalability and resources handling in SMP enabled systems.</p> @@ -126,10 +126,10 @@ <li><b>Linux emulation:</b> layer has been updated to version 2.6.16 and the default Linux infrastructure port is now - emulators/linux_base-f10 (Fedora 10)</li> + emulators/linux_base-f10 (Fedora 10).</li> <li><b>Network Virtualization:</b> A container ("vimage") has - been implemented, extending the FreeBSD kernel to maintain + been implemented, extending the &os; kernel to maintain multiple independent instances of networking state. Vimage facilities can be used independently to create fully virtualized network topologies, and jail(8) can directly Modified: projects/xml-tools/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/Makefile ============================================================================== --- projects/xml-tools/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/Makefile Wed May 15 13:42:25 2013 (r41631) +++ projects/xml-tools/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/Makefile Wed May 15 14:07:01 2013 (r41632) @@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ XMLDOCS+= report-2012-01-2012-03 XMLDOCS+= report-2012-04-2012-06 XMLDOCS+= report-2012-07-2012-09 XMLDOCS+= report-2012-10-2012-12 +XMLDOCS+= report-2013-01-2013-03 XSLT.DEFAULT= report.xsl Copied: projects/xml-tools/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-01-2013-03.xml (from r41631, head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-01-2013-03.xml) ============================================================================== --- /dev/null 00:00:00 1970 (empty, because file is newly added) +++ projects/xml-tools/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-01-2013-03.xml Wed May 15 14:07:01 2013 (r41632, copy of r41631, head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-01-2013-03.xml) @@ -0,0 +1,1662 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?> +<!DOCTYPE report PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD FreeBSD XML Database for Status Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/xml/statusreport.dtd" > +<!-- $FreeBSD$ --> +<report> + <date> + <month>January-March</month> + + <year>2013</year> + </date> + + <section> + <title>Introduction</title> + + <p>This report covers &os;-related projects between January and + March 2013. This is the first of four reports planned for 2013.</p> + + <p>Highlights from this status report include the busy preparations + of 8.4-RELEASE, restoration of binary package building, steady + progress of several porting efforts, like work on the &os; ports + of xorg, GNOME, KDE, and Xfce, bringing &os; to Cubieboard and + Hackberry boards, development of ARM and AMD GPU support, + improving performance of UFS/FFS and callouts, and introducing a + multipath TCP implementation for the network stack.</p> + + <p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report + contains 31 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p> + + <p>The deadline for submissions covering the period between April + and June 2013 is July 7th, 2013.</p> + </section> + + <category> + <name>proj</name> + + <description>Projects</description> + </category> + + <category> + <name>team</name> + + <description>&os; Team Reports</description> + </category> + + <category> + <name>kern</name> + + <description>Kernel</description> + </category> + + <category> + <name>docs</name> + + <description>Documentation</description> + </category> + + <category> + <name>arch</name> + + <description>Architectures</description> + </category> + + <category> + <name>ports</name> + + <description>Ports</description> + </category> + + <category> + <name>misc</name> + + <description>Miscellaneous</description> + </category> + + <project cat='team'> + <title>&os; Core Team</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Core Team</given> + </name> + <email>core@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links/> + + <body> + <p>At the end of 2012, the Core Team approved using Google + Analytics on the Project web site to enable the Documentation + Engineering Team to collect statistics on its usage for better + profiling. In the first quarter of 2013, the Core Team worked + with the Documentation Engineering Team to finalize the + associated policies.</p> + + <p>Due to some debates around the political correctness of quotes + added for the fortune(6) utility, the corresponding data file + has been removed from the base system in -CURRENT.</p> + + <p>In light of the security incident, the liaison role between the + Core Team and the Security Team has been restored, with Gavin + Atkinson assuming this role. The Core Team work hard on + resolving the current situation of the binary package building + cluster and the associated security problems in tight + cooperation with the Ports Management Team, Cluster + Administators, and the &os; Foundation Board. The <a + href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/news/2012-compromise.html">compromise page</a> + is kept updated on the results.</p> + + <p>The &os; Project submitted an application for Google Summer of + Code this year again.</p> + + <p>There was access granted for 2 new committers and 1 commit bit + was taken for safekeeping in this quarter.</p> + </body> + </project> + + <project cat='team'> + <title>&os; Port Managers</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Thomas</given> + <common>Abthorpe</common> + </name> + <email>portmgr-secretary@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + + <person> + <name> + <given>Port</given> + <common>Management Team</common> + </name> + <email>portmgr@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/"/>; + <url href="http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/contributing-ports/"/>; + <url href="http://portsmon.freebsd.org/"/>; + <url href="http://www.freebsd.org/portmgr/"/>; + <url href="http://blogs.freebsdish.org/portmgr/"/>; + <url href="http://www.twitter.com/freebsd_portmgr/"/>; + <url href="http://www.facebook.com/portmgr"/>; + </links> + + <body> + <p>The ports tree contains approximately 24,300 ports, while the + PR count still is close to 1600.</p> + + <p>In the first quarter we added 4 new committers, took in 1 + commit bit for safe keeping, and re-instated 1 commit bit.</p> + + <p>In February, Mark Linimon (linimon) stepped down from his + duties in the team. Mark had been the longest serving member of + the team. Mark had spent many long hours refactoring and + documenting the portbuild software to ensure that pointyhat + services could be restored.</p> + + <p>After a security review, redports.org was turned back on, + restoring Tinderbox services to contributors, along with post + commit QATs. In addition, pointyhat infrastructure had also + undergone a review and work begain on restoring the package + build system.</p> + + <p>Erwin Lansing (erwin) and Martin Wilke (miwi) took on the + principle roles of getting the portbuild software installed and + running on pointyhat. As a result of all their hard work, + portmgr@ was finally able to resume doing -exp runs, preparing + packages for the upcoming 8.4 release, as well as getting a set + of 9.1 packages retroactively prepared.</p> + + <p>After many long years of being the defacto standard for the + Project, CVS support for the ports tree officially ended on + February 28.</p> + + <p>The ports tree was tagged with <tt>RELEASE_7_EOL</tt>, to + coincide with the end of life for &os; 7.X.</p> + + <p>Beat Gaetzi (beat) stepped down from his duties on portmgr@ in + March. Among his notable contributions, was the task of migrating + the Ports Tree from the old CVS repo to Subversion.</p> + + <p>Bryan Drewery (bdrewery) joined the Ports Management team in + March, bringing with him his wealth of knowledge and skill from + maintaining portupgrade, portmaster, assisting with pkgng, as + well as co-developing poudriere.</p> + </body> + + <help> + <task>Most ports PRs are assigned, we now need to focus on + testing, committing and closing.</task> + </help> + </project> + + <project cat='docs'> + <title>The &os; Japanese Documentation Project</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Hiroki</given> + <common>Sato</common> + </name> + <email>hrs@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + + <person> + <name> + <given>Ryusuke</given> + <common>Suzuki</common> + </name> + <email>ryusuke@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/ja/">Japanese &os; Web Page</url> + <url href="http://www.jp.FreeBSD.org/doc-jp/">The &os; Japanese Documentation Project Web Page</url> + </links> + + <body> + <p>Web page (<tt>htdocs</tt>): Newsflash and some other updates in + the English version have been translated to keep them up-to-date. + Specifically, the release related contents were updated in this + period.</p> + + <p>Books: &os; Handbook has constantly been updated since the last + report; particularly, "ports", "desktop" section were largely + updated. Some progress has been made in the + "advanced-networking" section, contributed by a new + translator.</p> + + <p><q>Writing &os; Problem Reports</q> article is now in sync with + the English version.</p> + </body> + + <help> + <task>Further translation work of outdated documents in + ja_JP.eucJP subtree.</task> + </help> + </project> + + <project cat='arch'> + <title>&os; on Cubieboard</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Ganbold</given> + <common>Tsagaankhuu</common> + </name> + <email>ganbold@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + + <person> + <name> + <given>Oleksandr</given> + <common>Tymoshenko</common> + </name> + <email>gonzo@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links/> + + <body> + <p>Initial support of Allwinner A10 SoC is committed to -CURRENT. + &os; is now running on boards such as Cubieboard, Hackberry and + it supports following peripherals:</p> + + <ul> + <li>USB EHCI</li> + <li>GPIO</li> + </ul> + </body> + + <help> + <task>Get EMAC Ethernet driver working. Need more help from + network driver experts.</task> + <task>Implement more drivers.</task> + </help> + </project> + + <project cat='kern'> + <title>Multipath TCP (MPTCP) for &os;</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Nigel</given> + <common>Williams</common> + </name> + <email>njwilliams@swin.edu.au</email> + </person> + + <person> + <name> + <given>Lawrence</given> + <common>Stewart</common> + </name> + <email>lastewart@swin.edu.au</email> + </person> + + <person> + <name> + <given>Grenville</given> + <common>Armitage</common> + </name> + <email>garmitage@swin.edu.au</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="http://caia.swin.edu.au/urp/newtcp/mptcp/tools.html"/>; + <url href="http://caia.swin.edu.au/newtcp/mptcp/"/>; + <url href="http://caia.swin.edu.au/reports/130424A/CAIA-TR-130424A.pdf"/>; + <url href="https://pub.allbsd.org/FreeBSD-snapshots/"/>; + </links> + + <body> + <p>We have been working to create a BSD-licensed implementation of + Multipath TCP — a set of TCP extensions that allow for + transparent multipath operation with multiple IP addresses as + specified in experimental RFC6824.</p> + + <p>We made our first v0.1 public release on 2013-03-11 and + recently released v0.3 on 2013-04-16. The code is currently + considered to be of alpha quality. We are working towards + pushing the code into a &os; Subversion repository project + branch to continue the on-going development effort in a more + publicly accessible location. As part of this move, we hope to + begin releasing regular snapshot installer ISOs of the MPTCP + project branch courtesy of Hiroki Sato and the allbsd.org daily + snapshot infrastructure.</p> + + <p>We are about to release a CAIA technical report 130424A + entitled <q>Design Overview of Multipath TCP version 0.3 for + &os; 10</q> on 2013-04-24 which provides a high-level + design and architecture overview of the v0.3 code release.</p> + + <p>Going forward, we expect to continue development and release + additional technical reports and academic papers covering topics + such as performance analysis and multipath congestion + control/scheduling.</p> + </body> + + <help> + <task>The code is currently of alpha quality so we welcome all + testing feedback, but please familiarize yourself with the README + file and "Known Limitations" section in particular before + jumping in.</task> + </help> + </project> + + <project cat='kern'> + <title>TCP-AO Authentication Option</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>André</given> + <common>Oppermann</common> + </name> + <email>andre@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/user/andre/tcp-ao/">SVN branch</url> + </links> + + <body> + <p>Work is under way to implement TCP-AO (TCP Authentication + Option) according to RFC5925 and RFC5926. TCP-AO is an + extension to TCP-MD5 signatures commonly used in routers to + secure BGP routing protocol sessions against spoofing attacks. + The work is under contract and sponsored by Juniper + Networks.</p> + </body> + </project> + + <project cat='kern'> + <title>Atomic "close-on-exec"</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Jilles</given> + <common>Tjoelker</common> + </name> + <email>jilles@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/AtomicCloseOnExec"/>; + </links> + + <body> + <p>If threads or signal handlers call <tt>fork()</tt> and + <tt>exec()</tt>, file descriptors may be passed undesirably to + child processes, which may lead to hangs (if a pipe is not + closed), exceeding the file descriptor limit and security + problems (if the child process has lower privilege). One + solution is various new APIs that set the <q>close-on-exec</q> + flag atomically with allocating a file descriptor. Some + existing software will use the new features if present or will + even refuse to compile without them.</p> + + <p>Various parts have been present for some time.</p> + + <p>In first quarter of 2013, extensions to <tt>recvmsg()</tt>, + <tt>socket()</tt>, <tt>socketpair()</tt> and + <tt>posix_openpt()</tt> have been added.</p> + </body> + </project> + + <project cat='misc'> + <title>BXR.SU — Super User's BSD Cross Reference</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Constantine A.</given> + <common>Murenin</common> + </name> + <email>cnst++@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="http://bxr.su/">BXR.SU — Super User's BSD Cross Reference</url> + <url href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2013-April/042334.html"/>; + </links> + + <body> + <p>Super User's BSD Cross Reference (BXR.SU) is a new source-code + search engine that covers the complete kernel and non-GNU + userland source trees of &os;, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and DragonFly + BSD.</p> + + <p>BXR.SU is optimised to be very fast, has daily updates of all + the trees, and also acts as a deterministic URL shortener.</p> + + <p>BXR.SU is based on an OpenGrok fork, but it is more than just + OpenGrok. We have fixed a number of annoyances, eliminated + features that just never worked right from the outright, and + provided integration with tools like CVSweb (including great + mirrors like allbsd.org), &os;'s ViewVC (SVN), as well as GitHub + and Gitweb from <tt>git.freebsd.your.org</tt>, plus a tad of + other improvements, including a complete rewrite of an mdoc + parser. Last, but definitely not least, is an extensive set of + nginx rewrite rules that makes it a breeze to use BXR.SU as a + deterministic URL compactor for referencing BSD source code. + For example, the <tt>http://bxr.su/f/kern/sched_ule.c</tt>; URL + will automatically redirect to + <tt>http://bxr.su/FreeBSD/sys/kern/sched_ule.c</tt>; through + nginx.</p> + + <p>Note that according to the release schedule of BXR.SU, there is + no IPv4 glue until 2013-04-24; otherwise, the service is available + via both IPv4 and IPv6. See the 2013-04-01 announcement on the + freebsd-hackers mailing list for more details.</p> + </body> + + <help> + <task>Find up-to-date git repositories (served with Gitweb) of + NetBSD and OpenBSD.</task> + <task>Find a Gitweb mirror of &os; that is faster than GitHub and + Gitorious.</task> + </help> + </project> + + <project cat='team'> + <title>&os; Postmaster Team</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>David</given> + <common>Wolfskill</common> + </name> + <email>postmaster@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links/> + + <body> + <p>In the first quarter of 2013, the &os; Postmaster Team has + implemented the following items that may be interest of the + general public:</p> + + <ul> + <li>Changes in configuration of Mailman-managed lists: allow to + accept the <tt>application/pkcs7-signature</tt> MIME type (in + addition to the <tt>application/x-pkcs7-signature</tt> MIME + type), thus permitting S/MIME signatures on list mail.</li> + + <li>New lists: <tt>freebsd-ops-announce</tt> — + announcements of infrastructure issues, and <tt>freebsd-pkg</tt> + — discussion of binary package management and package + tools.</li> + </ul> + </body> + </project> + + <project cat='team'> + <title>&os; Bugmeister Team</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Eitan</given> + <common>Adler</common> + </name> + <email>eadler@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + + <person> + <name> + <given>Gavin</given> + <common>Atkinson</common> + </name> + <email>gavin@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + + <person> + <name> + <given>Oleksandr</given> + <common>Tymoshenko</common> + </name> + <email>gonzo@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links/> + + <body> + <p>The &os; Bugmeister Team are continuing to evaluate options for + alternate bug trackers and have narrowed their choices to two + possibilities: Bugzilla and roundup.</p> + + <p>The number of non-ports PRs have remained relatively static over + the last three months, with as many coming in as being closed. + The number of ports PRs have increased recently, largely due to + the ports freeze for the upcoming 8.4-RELEASE.</p> + + <p>The Bugmeister 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.</p> + + <p>As always, anybody interested in helping out with the PR queue is + welcome to join us in <tt>#freebsd-bugbusters</tt> 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 &os;!</p> + </body> + + <help> + <task>Finalize the decision of which new bug tracker to + use.</task> + + <task>Get more users involved with triaging PRs as they come + in.</task> + + <task>Assist committers with closing PRs.</task> + </help> + </project> + + <project cat='kern'> + <title>callout(9) Improvements</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Davide</given> + <common>Italiano</common> + </name> + <email>davide@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + + <person> + <name> + <given>Alexander</given> + <common>Motin</common> + </name> + <email>mav@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="http://people.freebsd.org/~davide/asia/callout_paper.pdf"/>; + <url href="http://people.freebsd.org/~davide/asia/calloutng.pdf"/>; + <url href="http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=247777"/>; + </links> + + <body> + <p>In &os;, timers are provided by the callout facility, which + allows to register a function with an argument to be called at + specified future time. The subsystem suffered of some problems, + such as the impossibility of handling high-resolution events or + its inherent periodic structure, which may lead to spurious + wakeups and higher power consumption. Some consumers, such as + high-speed networking, VoIP and other real-time applications + need a better precision than the one currently allowed. Also, + especially with the ubiquity of laptops in the last years, the *** DIFF OUTPUT TRUNCATED AT 1000 LINES ***
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