svn commit: r45294 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Warren Block <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.cvs.doc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Author: wblock
Date: Mon Jul 14 21:40:50 2014
New Revision: 45294
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/45294

Log:
  Reintroduce intentional informality in the last Python task.  Other
  assorted fixes in the rest of the document, including spelling and
  titles.

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-04-2014-06.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-04-2014-06.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-04-2014-06.xml	Mon Jul 14 18:14:52 2014	(r45293)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-04-2014-06.xml	Mon Jul 14 21:40:50 2014	(r45294)
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@
   </project>
 
   <project cat='proj'>
-    <title>RPC/NFS and CTL/iSCSI performance optimizations.</title>
+    <title>RPC/NFS and CTL/iSCSI Performance Optimizations</title>
 
     <contact>
       <person>
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@
     </links>
 
     <body>
-      <p>The <tt>vt(4)</tt> (a.k.a. <tt>Newcons</tt>) project provides
+      <p>The <tt>vt(4)</tt> (aka <tt>Newcons</tt>) project provides
 	a replacement for the legacy <tt>syscons</tt> system console.
 	It brings a number of improvements, including better
 	integration with graphics modes and broader character set
@@ -366,7 +366,7 @@
   </project>
 
   <project cat='proj'>
-    <title>QEMU bsd-user enabled ports building</title>
+    <title>QEMU <tt>bsd-user</tt>-Enabled Ports Building</title>
 
     <contact>
       <person>
@@ -562,8 +562,8 @@
       <task>More tasks can be found on the team's wiki page (see
 	links).</task>
 
-      <task>To get involved, interested people can say hello on IRC
-	and let us know their areas of interest!</task>
+      <task>To get involved, come and say "hi" on IRC and let us know
+	what you are interested in!</task>
     </help>
   </project>
 
@@ -661,26 +661,26 @@
 
       <p>In May, a new release policy was published as well as being
 	presented at the BSDCan developer conference by John Baldwin.
-	The idea is that each major release branch (eg. 10.x) is
-	guarranteed to be supported for at least five years, but
-	individual point releases on each branch (eg. 10.0-RELEASE)
+	The idea is that each major release branch (for example, 10.X) is
+	guaranteed to be supported for at least five years, but
+	individual point releases on each branch, like 10.0-RELEASE,
 	will be issued at regular intervals and only the latest point
 	release will be supported.</p>
 
       <p>Another significant change did not receive approval.  When
 	the change to the Bylaws reforming the core team election
-	process was put to the vote of all &os; developers it failed
+	process was put to the vote of all &os; developers, it failed
 	to reach a quorum.</p>
 
       <p>June saw the culmination of a long running project to replace
-	the project's bug tracking system.  As of 3rd June the &os;
+	the project's bug tracking system.  As of June 3, the &os;
 	project has switched to Bugzilla as its bug tracking system.
-	All of the history of Gnats PRs has been preserved, so there
+	All of the history of GNATS PRs has been preserved, so there
 	is no need to re-open old tickets.  Work is still going on to
 	replicate some of the integration tweaks that had been applied
-	to Gnats, but all necessary functionality has been implemented
+	to GNATS, but all necessary functionality has been implemented
 	and the project is already seeing the benefits of the new
-	capabilities bought by Bugzilla.</p>
+	capabilities brought by Bugzilla.</p>
 
       <p>An election to select core members for the next two year term
 	of office took place during this period.  We would like to
@@ -688,7 +688,7 @@
 	The new core team provides continuity with previous core
 	teams: about half are incumbents from the previous team, and
 	several former core team members have returned after a hiatus.
-	core now includes two members of the &os; Foundation board and
+	Core now includes two members of the &os; Foundation board and
 	one other Foundation staff member, aiding greater coordination
 	at the top level of the project.  At the same time the
 	core-secretary role was passed on to a new volunteer.</p>
@@ -703,7 +703,7 @@
   </project>
 
   <project cat='misc'>
-    <title>&os; host support for OpenStack and OpenContrail.</title>
+    <title>&os; Host Support for OpenStack and OpenContrail</title>
 
     <contact>
       <person>
@@ -909,7 +909,7 @@
   </project>
 
   <project cat='kern'>
-    <title>SDIO driver</title>
+    <title>SDIO Driver</title>
 
     <contact>
       <person>
@@ -945,8 +945,8 @@
 
       <p>WiFi driver is able to load a firmware onto the card and
 	initialize it.  A rewrite of the MMC stack as a transport
-	layer for CAM framework is in progress. This will allow to
-	utilize the well-tested CAM locking model and debug features.</p>
+	layer for CAM framework is in progress.  This will allow
+	utilization of the well-tested CAM locking model and debug features.</p>
     </body>
 
     <help>
@@ -1016,8 +1016,8 @@
   </project>
 
   <project cat='kern'>
-    <title>Running &os; as an application on top of Fiasco.OC
-      microkernel</title>
+    <title>Running &os; as an Application on Top of the Fiasco.OC
+      Microkernel</title>
 
     <contact>
       <person>
@@ -1042,13 +1042,13 @@
 	provides a bare minimum of services to the applications
 	running on top of it, unlike traditional kernels that
 	incorporate a complex code like IP stacks and device drivers.
-	This allows to dramatically decrease the amount of code
+	This allows a dramatic decrease in the amount of code
 	running in the privileged mode of the CPU, achieving higher
 	security while still providing an acceptable level of
 	performance.</p>
 
       <p>Running an operating system kernel on top of the microkernel
-	allows to leverage any software that was developed for that
+	allows leveraging any software that was developed for that
 	operating system. The OS kernel runs in user-mode side-by-side
 	with other microkernel applications such as real-time
 	components. Multiple OSes, each with their userland
@@ -1059,7 +1059,7 @@
       <p>The project aims to create a port of &os; to Fiasco.OC
 	microkernel, which is a high performance L4 microkernel
 	developed by TU Dresden. The existing ports of OpenBSD and
-	Linux are used as a reference. This will allow to use the
+	Linux are used as a reference. This will allow the use of
 	unique &os; features like ZFS in L4-based projects.</p>
     </body>
 
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