Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 11:42:46 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> To: hackers@freebsd.org Cc: "current@freebsd.org" <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Last call! [Re: Call for FreeBSD status reports] Message-ID: <41E96426.5020508@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <41DA5C4D.1060606@freebsd.org> References: <41DA5C4D.1060606@freebsd.org>
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All, This is a last call for status report submissions. If you intend to submit one, please do it in the next 12 hours. Thanks, Scott Scott Long wrote: > All, > > It's time again for the bi-monthly status reports. The July-Oct 2004 > status reports were preempted by the 5.3 release, so this one is open > for anything that has happened since June. As always, submissions > having to do with FreeBSD development, documentation, organized events, > etc, are welcome and highly encouraged. Submissions are due by Jan 15 > to monthly@freebsd.org > > There are also a couple of changes to announce. First is that Tom > Rhodes and Max Laier have volunteered to help run the status reports and > keep them more timely. Many thanks to Tom and Max for offering to > help. Second is that a couple of new attributes have been added to the > XML thanks to Max. The first is a project category attribute that will > enable us to group the submissions into categories and render the full > report with these categories for easier viewing. You can choose to use > whatever category tag fits your report best, or omit it entirely and let > us take care of it. The category mapping is listed below. Feel free to > suggest additional categories. > > proj - Projects (non-specific) > docs - Documentation > kern - Kernel > arch - Architectures > ports - Ports > vendor - Vendor / 3rd party software > misc - Miscellaneous > > The second new attribute lets you lists tasks for your project that > others can help with. An example is provided in the template under the > <help> and <task> tags. > > The template is available at > http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-sample.xml. I've just > committed the updated version with the new tags, so it might take a few > hours for it to reach the website for downloading. > > Submissions are due on Jan 15. Thanks a lot, and we are looking for a > big turn-out. > > Scott
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