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Warren Block <[email protected]>
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Author: wblock
Date: Tue Jan 13 02:40:17 2015
New Revision: 46196
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/46196
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@@ -16,28 +16,30 @@
<title>Introduction</title>
<!-- <?ignore -->
- <p><strong>This is a draft of the October–December 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><strong>This is a draft of the October–December 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 October and
December 2014. This is the last of four reports planned for
2014.</p>
- <p>The fourth quarter of 2014 included a number of significant improvements to the &os;
- system. In particular, compatibility with other systems was enhanced. This included
- significant improvements to the Linux compatibility layer, used to
- run Linux binaries on &os;, and the port of WINE, used to run Windows
- applications. Hypervisor support improved, with &os; gaining the ability
- to run as domain 0 on Xen's new high-performance PVH mode, bhyve gaining
- AMD support, and new tools for creating &os; VM images arriving.</p>
-
- <p>This quarter was also an active time for the toolchain, with numerous
- improvements to the compiler, debugger, and other components, including
- initial support for C++14, which should be complete by
- &os; 10.2.</p>
+ <p>The fourth quarter of 2014 included a number of significant
+ improvements to the &os; system. In particular, compatibility
+ with other systems was enhanced. This included significant
+ improvements to the Linux compatibility layer, used to run Linux
+ binaries on &os;, and the port of WINE, used to run Windows
+ applications. Hypervisor support improved, with &os; gaining
+ the ability to run as domain 0 on Xen's new high-performance PVH
+ mode, bhyve gaining AMD support, and new tools for creating &os;
+ VM images arriving.</p>
+
+ <p>This quarter was also an active time for the toolchain, with
+ numerous improvements to the compiler, debugger, and other
+ components, including initial support for C++14, which should be
+ complete by &os; 10.2.</p>
<p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work!</p>
@@ -105,17 +107,18 @@
<body>
<p>With funding from the &os; Foundation, the &os; forums
- were migrated to the XenForo software. The new software is far more
- capable and easy to use. While the entire forum team
- contributed, &a.danger; did an excellent job
- importing existing users and messages and bringing back the
- often-requested "Thanks" feature. The upgrade was completed in
- time to be ready for the influx of new users from the release of
- &os; 10.1, and we have already seen an increase in usage.</p>
+ were migrated to the XenForo software. The new software is
+ far more capable and easy to use. While the entire forum team
+ contributed, &a.danger; did an excellent job importing
+ existing users and messages and bringing back the
+ often-requested "Thanks" feature. The upgrade was completed
+ in time to be ready for the influx of new users from the
+ release of &os; 10.1, and we have already seen an increase in
+ usage.</p>
<p>Developers with an @FreeBSD.org address can contact forum
- administrators to obtain the highly-desired "@" suffix on their
- forum user name along with a Developer flag.</p>
+ administrators to obtain the highly-desired "@" suffix on
+ their forum user name along with a Developer flag.</p>
<p>We want to thank the Foundation for making this possible, and
the users for their patience and continued presence on the
@@ -128,7 +131,8 @@
<help>
<task>
- <p>Encourage more developers and users to try the new forums.</p>
+ <p>Encourage more developers and users to try the new
+ forums.</p>
</task>
<task>
@@ -149,6 +153,7 @@
</name>
<email>[email protected]</email>
</person>
+
<person>
<name>
<given>Peter</given>
@@ -163,49 +168,47 @@
management last quarter.</p>
<!-- This needs some markup from someone with more docbook-fu than me -->
- <p>The Reaper facility was added, allowing a process to reliably track the
- running and exiting state of the whole subtree of the processes.
- It is intended to improve tools like timeout(1) or
- poudriere, by making it impossible for the runaway grandchild to
- escape the controlling process. The feature was designed based on
- similar facilities in DragonFlyBSD and Linux, with some
- references to Solaris contracts. Committed to HEAD in
- r275800.</p>
-
- <p>The FreeBSD suspension code does not
- ensure that the system, both software and hardware,
- is in a steady and consistent state. One aspect is
- usermode process activity, which is not yet stopped, continuing to
- making requests to the hardware. It is not realistic to expect
- drivers to be able to correctly handle the calls after
- SUSPEND_CHILD.</p>
-
- <p>We developed a facility to stop
- usermode threads at safe points, where they are known to not
- own and to not wait for kernel resources, in particular, not
- waiting for device requests finishing. It is based on the
- existing single-threading code, but extending it to allow external
- thread to put some processes into stopped state. Also, a facility
- to sync filesystems before suspend was added, to ensure that
- consistent metadata and as much as possible of the cached user
- data are on stable storage, to minimize damage of failed
- resume.</p>
+ <p>The Reaper facility was added, allowing a process to reliably
+ track the running and exiting state of the whole subtree of
+ the processes. It is intended to improve tools like
+ timeout(1) or poudriere, by making it impossible for the
+ runaway grandchild to escape the controlling process. The
+ feature was designed based on similar facilities in
+ DragonFlyBSD and Linux, with some references to Solaris
+ contracts. Committed to HEAD in r275800.</p>
+
+ <p>The FreeBSD suspension code does not ensure that the system,
+ both software and hardware, is in a steady and consistent
+ state. One aspect is usermode process activity, which is not
+ yet stopped, continuing to making requests to the hardware.
+ It is not realistic to expect drivers to be able to correctly
+ handle the calls after SUSPEND_CHILD.</p>
+
+ <p>We developed a facility to stop usermode threads at safe
+ points, where they are known to not own and to not wait for
+ kernel resources, in particular, not waiting for device
+ requests finishing. It is based on the existing
+ single-threading code, but extending it to allow external
+ thread to put some processes into stopped state. Also, a
+ facility to sync filesystems before suspend was added, to
+ ensure that consistent metadata and as much as possible of the
+ cached user data are on stable storage, to minimize damage of
+ failed resume.</p>
<p>The code stressed some parts of the system and has led to
- discovery of a number of bugs in different areas,
- including process management, buffer cache, and syscall
- handlers. The bugs were fixed, and the fixes and features commmitted
- by a series culminating in r275745.</p>
-
- <p>During the work described above, it
- was noted that process spinlock duties are significantly
- overloaded (the same is true for the process lock). The spinlock
- was split into per-feature locks in r275121. As result, it
- was also possible to eliminate recursion on it in r275372.</p>
+ discovery of a number of bugs in different areas, including
+ process management, buffer cache, and syscall handlers. The
+ bugs were fixed, and the fixes and features commmitted by a
+ series culminating in r275745.</p>
+
+ <p>During the work described above, it was noted that process
+ spinlock duties are significantly overloaded (the same is true
+ for the process lock). The spinlock was split into
+ per-feature locks in r275121. As result, it was also possible
+ to eliminate recursion on it in r275372.</p>
</body>
<sponsor>The FreeBSD Foundation</sponsor>
-
</project>
<project cat='proj'>
@@ -227,7 +230,8 @@
<body>
<p>Most system features work, including keyboard, WiFi, sound,
- VESA graphics, touchpad, USB and decent battery life (5 to 6 hours).</p>
+ VESA graphics, touchpad, USB and decent battery life (5 to 6
+ hours).</p>
</body>
<help>
@@ -264,16 +268,16 @@
Vagrant images to run on VMware and VirtualBox.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.packer.io/">Packer</a> is a tool for
- creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a
- single source configuration.</p>
+ creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from
+ a single source configuration.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.vagrantup.com/">Vagrant</a> is a tool to
create and configure lightweight, reproducible, and portable
development environments.</p>
- <p>To get started, clone the Git repo and follow the directions in
- the README. More information is available from the Packer and
- Vagrant websites.</p>
+ <p>To get started, clone the Git repo and follow the directions
+ in the README. More information is available from the Packer
+ and Vagrant websites.</p>
</body>
</project>
@@ -293,24 +297,30 @@
</links>
<body>
- <p>The package development team has released <tt>pkg(8)</tt> 1.4.
- This release fixes lots of bugs and adds some new features:
+ <p>The package development team has released <tt>pkg(8)</tt>
+ 1.4. This release fixes lots of bugs and adds some new
+ features:
<ul>
<li>Stricter checking of the path passed via the plist</li>
+
<li>Change in the ABI to be closer to MACHINE_ARCH</li>
+
<li>Add three-way merge functionality</li>
- <li>Add conservative upgrade support for multi repository configurations</li>
+
+ <li>Add conservative upgrade support for multi repository
+ configurations</li>
+
<li>Multirepository priority</li>
</ul>
</p>
<p>An important part of the development direction for the 1.4
- release was stabilizing the existing features and
- improving the <tt>pkg(8)</tt> experience on small/embedded
- machines (reducing memory usage and speeding up operations).</p>
+ release was stabilizing the existing features and improving
+ the <tt>pkg(8)</tt> experience on small/embedded machines
+ (reducing memory usage and speeding up operations).</p>
- <p><tt>pkg(8)</tt> is not only the &os; Package Manager, but also the
- Package Manager for DragonflyBSD. Support has been
+ <p><tt>pkg(8)</tt> is not only the &os; Package Manager, but
+ also the Package Manager for DragonflyBSD. Support has been
added to build <tt>pkg(8)</tt> on OS X and Linux. This work
will allow other Operating Systems the option of adopting
<tt>pkg(8)</tt> to manage their packages and bring new
@@ -321,18 +331,23 @@
<task>
<p>Add more regression tests.</p>
</task>
+
<task>
<p>Package FreeBSD base.</p>
</task>
+
<task>
<p>Allow using mtree as a plist when creating a package.</p>
</task>
+
<task>
<p>Implement flexible dependencies.</p>
</task>
+
<task>
<p>Test the development branch.</p>
</task>
+
<task>
<p>More developers are needed, check the Issues on Github.</p>
</task>
@@ -350,6 +365,7 @@
</name>
<email>[email protected]</email>
</person>
+
<person>
<name>
<given>Ulrich</given>
@@ -357,6 +373,7 @@
</name>
<email>[email protected]</email>
</person>
+
<person>
<name>
<given>The Documentation Team</given>
@@ -374,25 +391,25 @@
formatter on HEAD -- man(1) will use <tt>mandoc(1)</tt> to
format manual pages by default, then fall back to
<tt>groff(1)</tt> if it fails.</p>
-
+
<p>This change also fixes an issue with the &os; <tt>man(1)</tt>
- command not being able to properly deal with ".so" in gzipped manual
- pages.</p>
-
+ command not being able to properly deal with ".so" in gzipped
+ manual pages.</p>
+
<p>The documentation team has spent a lot of time fixing issues
- reported by <tt>mdoc(7)</tt> in the FreeBSD manual pages. This
- greatly improves the quality of our manual pages.</p>
-
- <p>Most manual pages with remaining issues are from contrib/, for
- which changes should be reported and fixed upstream.</p>
-
- <p>The "manlint" target has also been switched to use <tt>mandoc
- -Tlint</tt>, which results in the target being more useful
- when working on manual pages.</p>
-
+ reported by <tt>mdoc(7)</tt> in the FreeBSD manual pages.
+ This greatly improves the quality of our manual pages.</p>
+
+ <p>Most manual pages with remaining issues are from contrib/,
+ for which changes should be reported and fixed upstream.</p>
+
+ <p>The "manlint" target has also been switched to use
+ <tt>mandoc -Tlint</tt>, which results in the target being more
+ useful when working on manual pages.</p>
+
<p>Some <tt>groff(1)</tt> versus <tt>mandoc(1)</tt> formatting
- differences have been spotted and reported to mandoc's upstream
- developers.</p>
+ differences have been spotted and reported to mandoc's
+ upstream developers.</p>
</body>
<help>
@@ -422,6 +439,7 @@
</name>
<email>[email protected]</email>
</person>
+
<person>
<name>
<given>Warner</given>
@@ -429,6 +447,7 @@
</name>
<email>[email protected]</email>
</person>
+
<person>
<name>
<given>Brooks</given>
@@ -444,49 +463,57 @@
<body>
<p>The main goal of the external toolchain project is to be able
- to build world and kernel with non-default toolchain. It can be
- helpful to:
+ to build world and kernel with non-default toolchain. It can
+ be helpful to:
<ul>
- <li>Prepare a migration to a newer version of toolchain components.</li>
+ <li>Prepare a migration to a newer version of toolchain
+ components.</li>
+
<li>Port &os; to a new architecture</li>
- <li>Upgrade from a &os; that ships with GCC 4.2 to a version that ships with clang 3.5+ (which needs a more modern toolchain than GCC 4.2 to bootstrap).</li>
+
+ <li>Upgrade from a &os; that ships with GCC 4.2 to a version
+ that ships with clang 3.5+ (which needs a more modern
+ toolchain than GCC 4.2 to bootstrap).</li>
</ul>
</p>
- <p>The initial external toolchain work only supported
- clang. It has been extended to support recent GCC (4.9.1 has
- been tested) and recent binutils (2.24 and 2.25).</p>
-
- <p>A large number of fixes have been committed to HEAD to support
- incompatible behaviour changes between <tt>ld(1)</tt> from
- binutils 2.17.50 (the version in base) and binutils 2.24+.</p>
-
- <p>A large number of warnings have been deactivated when building
- the kernel to make sure it is possible to build the kernel with
- recent GCC (first 4.6 and then 4.9.1)</p>
+ <p>The initial external toolchain work only supported clang. It
+ has been extended to support recent GCC (4.9.1 has been
+ tested) and recent binutils (2.24 and 2.25).</p>
+
+ <p>A large number of fixes have been committed to HEAD to
+ support incompatible behaviour changes between <tt>ld(1)</tt>
+ from binutils 2.17.50 (the version in base) and binutils
+ 2.24+.</p>
+
+ <p>A large number of warnings have been deactivated when
+ building the kernel to make sure it is possible to build the
+ kernel with recent GCC (first 4.6 and then 4.9.1)</p>
<p>The build system has been changed to build libc++ as the C++
- standard library implementation when a recent enough GCC (4.6+) is used to build world.
- </p>
+ standard library implementation when a recent enough GCC
+ (4.6+) is used to build world.</p>
<p>To simplify using an external toolchain, the following
pre-seeded configurations have been added to the ports tree:
<ul>
<li>amd64-xtoolchain-gcc</li>
+
<li>powerpc64-xtoolchain-gcc</li>
+
<li>sparc64-xtoolchain-gcc</li>
</ul>
</p>
<p>Those packages will depend on special versions of GCC
(minimalistic cross-built ready GCC) and on binutils. To use
- them, run: <tt>make CROSS_TOOLCHAIN=powerpc64-gcc TARGET=powerpc
- TARGET_ARCH=powerpc64</tt></p>
+ them, run: <tt>make CROSS_TOOLCHAIN=powerpc64-gcc
+ TARGET=powerpc TARGET_ARCH=powerpc64</tt></p>
<p>As a result of this effort, it has been possible to
successfully build and run a kernel and world built with GCC
- 4.9.1 and binutils 2.24 on sparc64, amd64 (with minor tweaks for
- amd64), powerpc and powerpc64.</p>
+ 4.9.1 and binutils 2.24 on sparc64, amd64 (with minor tweaks
+ for amd64), powerpc and powerpc64.</p>
</body>
<help>
@@ -494,9 +521,12 @@
<p>Patch and upstream GCC 4.9 to support &os; mips, arm and
aarch64.</p>
</task>
+
<task>
- <p>Adapt and upstream the aarch64 patches for binutils 2.25.</p>
+ <p>Adapt and upstream the aarch64 patches for binutils
+ 2.25.</p>
</task>
+
<task>
<p>Add more pre-seeded configurations.</p>
</task>
@@ -518,10 +548,9 @@
<body>
<p>Since 2006, initial support for Linux timer function
- compatibility support was present but untested.
- This update corrects the initial implementation and makes it
- available to the 32-bit Linuxulator on amd64, not just on i386.
- </p>
+ compatibility support was present but untested. This update
+ corrects the initial implementation and makes it available to
+ the 32-bit Linuxulator on amd64, not just on i386.</p>
<p>Starting with &os; 10.1, this enables users to run another
FPGA high-level synthesis toolchain and emulation platform
@@ -530,6 +559,7 @@
</body>
<sponsor>DARPA</sponsor>
+
<sponsor>AFRL</sponsor>
</project>
@@ -551,32 +581,32 @@
</links>
<body>
- <p>The &os; GNOME Team maintains the GNOME, MATE, and CINNAMON desktop
- environments and graphical user interfaces for &os;. GNOME 3 is part
- of the GNU Project. MATE is a fork of the GNOME 2 desktop. CINNAMON
- is a desktop environment using GNOME 3 technologies but with a GNOME 2
- look and feel.</p>
-
- <p>This quarter was an exciting time for the GNOME Team. We imported
- GNOME 3.14.0 and CINNAMON 2.2.16 into the ports tree. At the same
- time, we removed the old GNOME 2.32 desktop. And two weeks later
- we updated GNOME to 3.14.2 and CINNAMON to 2.4.2, which was collected
- while the preparation for the initial GNOME 3.14.0 import was
- under way.</p>
-
- <p>We moved our development repo to GitHub.
- The repo is structured as follows: the <tt>master</tt> branch
- is vanilla &os; Ports, and we have <tt>theme branches</tt> for topics
- such as the porting of MATE 1.9 (mate-1.10 branch) and GNOME 3.15
- (gnome-3.16 branch). The GNOME 3.14 branch (gnome-3.14) is not
- used or updated any more because the content has been committed to
- ports, but is kept around for the history.</p>
+ <p>The &os; GNOME Team maintains the GNOME, MATE, and CINNAMON
+ desktop environments and graphical user interfaces for &os;.
+ GNOME 3 is part of the GNU Project. MATE is a fork of the
+ GNOME 2 desktop. CINNAMON is a desktop environment using
+ GNOME 3 technologies but with a GNOME 2 look and feel.</p>
+
+ <p>This quarter was an exciting time for the GNOME Team. We
+ imported GNOME 3.14.0 and CINNAMON 2.2.16 into the ports tree.
+ At the same time, we removed the old GNOME 2.32 desktop. And
+ two weeks later we updated GNOME to 3.14.2 and CINNAMON to
+ 2.4.2, which was collected while the preparation for the
+ initial GNOME 3.14.0 import was under way.</p>
+
+ <p>We moved our development repo to GitHub. The repo is
+ structured as follows: the <tt>master</tt> branch is vanilla
+ &os; Ports, and we have <tt>theme branches</tt> for topics
+ such as the porting of MATE 1.9 (mate-1.10 branch) and GNOME
+ 3.15 (gnome-3.16 branch). The GNOME 3.14 branch (gnome-3.14)
+ is not used or updated any more because the content has been
+ committed to ports, but is kept around for the history.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>
- <p>The GNOME website is stale. Work is starting on updating
- the development section. We could use some help here.</p>
+ <p>The GNOME website is stale. Work is starting on updating
+ the development section. We could use some help here.</p>
</task>
<task>
@@ -603,15 +633,15 @@
<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>
+ Directors", responsible for deciding the project's overall
+ goals and direction as well as managing specific areas of the
+ &os; project landscape.</p>
<p>During the fourth quarter of 2014, the &os; Core team saw the
culmination of a long-running project to rebuild the &os;
- Forums. The chosen solution was to license XenForo; core would
- like to thank the FreeBSD Foundation for paying the licensing
- costs of this software.</p>
+ Forums. The chosen solution was to license XenForo; core
+ would like to thank the FreeBSD Foundation for paying the
+ licensing costs of this software.</p>
<p>Much discussion ensued concerning the "New Support Model"
following Core's meeting at EuroBSDCon in September. It was
@@ -620,9 +650,9 @@
at 11.0-RELEASE.</p>
<p>In order to ensure that 10.1-RELEASE shipped with support for
- up-to-date X Windows and KDE4, core approved the switch to 'new
- Xorg' as the default in time for building the packages for that
- release.</p>
+ up-to-date X Windows and KDE4, core approved the switch to
+ 'new Xorg' as the default in time for building the packages
+ for that release.</p>
<p>Git was officially promoted from beta to an officially
supported version control system. Git is available as a
@@ -630,32 +660,32 @@
exported copy from SVN, the primary and only read-write
repository. The &os; git repositories (exported from the
master SVN version control) will shortly be available at
- https://git.freebsd.org/, and core has been active
- in ensuring that there is a sufficient body of Git
- administrators available with access to appropriate
- documentation in order to maintain a good git service.</p>
+ https://git.freebsd.org/, and core has been active in ensuring
+ that there is a sufficient body of Git administrators
+ available with access to appropriate documentation in order to
+ maintain a good git service.</p>
<p>Core mediated in disputes between a number of committers over
some updates to system sources, and fielded complaints about
- code quality of some other work in critical areas.
- While such disagreements will occasionally occur, core is
- promoting the routine use of the Phabricator service in order to
- review work before committal. Catching problems early is in the
- project's best interests, and discussion of changes in an open
- review context should minimize confrontational demands for
- immediate back-out of changes.</p>
+ code quality of some other work in critical areas. While such
+ disagreements will occasionally occur, core is promoting the
+ routine use of the Phabricator service in order to review work
+ before committal. Catching problems early is in the project's
+ best interests, and discussion of changes in an open review
+ context should minimize confrontational demands for immediate
+ back-out of changes.</p>
<p>Core is working on a charter for a proposed new QA team, to
- encompass members of the Release Engineering and Security teams,
- as well as committers with interests in standards compliance.
- It is envisioned that the QA team will take responsibility for
- merging code from HEAD into the STABLE branches, run integration
- testing against those updates and handle merging patches and
- bug-fixes submitted to the &os; project from third parties.</p>
-
- <p>During this quarter, core issued two new commit bits, and also
- took two commit bits into safe-keeping.</p>
-
+ encompass members of the Release Engineering and Security
+ teams, as well as committers with interests in standards
+ compliance. It is envisioned that the QA team will take
+ responsibility for merging code from HEAD into the STABLE
+ branches, run integration testing against those updates and
+ handle merging patches and bug-fixes submitted to the &os;
+ project from third parties.</p>
+
+ <p>During this quarter, core issued two new commit bits, and
+ also took two commit bits into safe-keeping.</p>
</body>
</project>
@@ -680,36 +710,45 @@
</links>
<body>
- <p>The KDE on &os; team focuses on packaging and making sure that the
- experience of KDE and Qt on &os; is as good as possible.</p>
+ <p>The KDE on &os; team focuses on packaging and making sure
+ that the experience of KDE and Qt on &os; is as good as
+ possible.</p>
<p>As mentioned last quarter, Alonso Schaich (alonso@) became a
- committer and since then has made good progress helping his mentors
- Raphael Kubo da Costa (rakuco@) and Max Brazhnikov (makc@) maintain all
- Qt and KDE-related ports.</p>
+ committer and since then has made good progress helping his
+ mentors Raphael Kubo da Costa (rakuco@) and Max Brazhnikov
+ (makc@) maintain all Qt and KDE-related ports.</p>
<p>This quarter, Qt 5.3 was finally committed to the ports tree.
- Extensive work was required, including cleaning up and/or changing a lot of
- the Qt5 ports infrastructure to make it both easier to maintain the Qt
- ports as well as finally make it possible to build newer versions when
- older ones are already installed on the system.</p>
-
- <p>We have also updated KDE in our experimental area51 repository
- and committed several updates to other ports such as KDevelop and KDE
- Telepathy. Overall, we have worked on the following releases:
+ Extensive work was required, including cleaning up and/or
+ changing a lot of the Qt5 ports infrastructure to make it both
+ easier to maintain the Qt ports as well as finally make it
+ possible to build newer versions when older ones are already
+ installed on the system.</p>
+
+ <p>We have also updated KDE in our experimental area51
+ repository and committed several updates to other ports such
+ as KDevelop and KDE Telepathy. Overall, we have worked on the
+ following releases:
<ul>
- <li>CMake 3.1.0 (in area51, exp-run in progress for it to be committed to the ports tree)</li>
+ <li>CMake 3.1.0 (in area51, exp-run in progress for it to be
+ committed to the ports tree)</li>
+
<li>Calligra 2.8.6 (in area51)</li>
+
<li>KDE 4.14.2 (committed to ports), 4.14.3 (in area51)</li>
+
<li>KDE Telepathy 0.8.0 (committed to ports)</li>
+
<li>KDevelop 4.7.0 (committed to ports)</li>
+
<li>Qt 5.3.2 (committed to ports)</li>
</ul>
</p>
- <p>Tobias Berner has contributed patches to update QtCreator to 3.3.0 as
- well as KDE Frameworks 5 ports which are under review for inclusion
- in our experimental area51 repository.</p>
+ <p>Tobias Berner has contributed patches to update QtCreator to
+ 3.3.0 as well as KDE Frameworks 5 ports which are under review
+ for inclusion in our experimental area51 repository.</p>
</body>
<help>
@@ -718,11 +757,13 @@
</task>
<task>
- <p>Try to contribute to the work on getting rid of HAL on &os;,
- which seems to be gaining more traction recently.</p>
+ <p>Try to contribute to the work on getting rid of HAL on
+ &os;, which seems to be gaining more traction recently.</p>
</task>
+
<task>
- <p>Add KDE Frameworks 5 ports to our experimental repository.</p>
+ <p>Add KDE Frameworks 5 ports to our experimental
+ repository.</p>
</task>
</help>
</project>
@@ -750,10 +791,11 @@
Essentials" is available.</p>
<p>Lucas is moving on to &os; books on ZFS, Specialty
- Filesystems, and jails. They will hopefully be available by
+ Filesystems, and jails. They will hopefully be available by
BSDCan 2015.</p>
- <p>Get status updates on his blog, or follow @mwlauthor on Twitter.</p>
+ <p>Get status updates on his blog, or follow @mwlauthor on
+ Twitter.</p>
</body>
<help>
@@ -851,22 +893,23 @@
and Testing in &os;. Some of the highlights include:</p>
<ul>
- <li>The Jenkins project mentioned on their blog how FreeBSD is using
- Jenkins and kyua to run OS-level tests.</li>
+ <li>The Jenkins project mentioned on their blog how FreeBSD is
+ using Jenkins and kyua to run OS-level tests.</li>
- <li>&a.rodrigc; submitted patches to upgrade Jenkins to use JNA 4.1.0.
- The Jenkins project accepted these patches [JENKINS-24521] in
- the Jenkins 1.586 release. This fixed problems with PAM
- authentication support in Jenkins on FreeBSD [JENKINS-21507].</li>
+ <li>&a.rodrigc; submitted patches to upgrade Jenkins to use
+ JNA 4.1.0. The Jenkins project accepted these patches
+ [JENKINS-24521] in the Jenkins 1.586 release. This fixed
+ problems with PAM authentication support in Jenkins on
+ FreeBSD [JENKINS-21507].</li>
<li>&a.rodrigc; gave a presentation "Kyua and Jenkins Testing
Framework" for BSD at the Developer and Vendor summit on
- November 3, 2014 in San Jose, California. In the presentation,
- &a.rodrigc; described how, for every commit to the FreeBSD source
- tree, nearly 3000 tests are run using kyua inside a bhyve virtual
- machine. The kyua test results are exported to JUnit XML format,
- which is then used by Jenkins to generate web-based test reports with
- graphs.</li>
+ November 3, 2014 in San Jose, California. In the
+ presentation, &a.rodrigc; described how, for every commit to
+ the FreeBSD source tree, nearly 3000 tests are run using
+ kyua inside a bhyve virtual machine. The kyua test results
+ are exported to JUnit XML format, which is then used by
+ Jenkins to generate web-based test reports with graphs.</li>
<li>&a.lwhsu; set up a Jenkins build named FreeBSD_Doc-igor
to run the Igor tool written by &a.wblock;. Igor proofreads
@@ -876,8 +919,8 @@
FreeBSD_HEAD_sparc64 to build the FreeBSD HEAD branch for
the sparc64 architecture</li>
- <li>&a.ngie; imported more tests from NetBSD. After this import,
- there are now over 3000 tests in the /usr/tests
+ <li>&a.ngie; imported more tests from NetBSD. After this
+ import, there are now over 3000 tests in the /usr/tests
directory.</li>
<li>Susan Stanziano from Xinuous ran kyua tests and provided
@@ -888,31 +931,35 @@
feedback about test errors running in a Hyper-V 2012R2
VM.</li>
- <li>&a.swills; ran the &os; tests in Google Compute Engine and provided
- the test results.</li>
+ <li>&a.swills; ran the &os; tests in Google Compute Engine and
+ provided the test results.</li>
<li>&a.rodrigc; submitted a formula to create a package for
- kyua in the Homebrew packaging system on OS X. The Homebrew project
- accepted this. Now, kyua can easily be installed on OS X via a
- Homebrew package. Hopefully this will make it easier to share
- more test infrastructure and scripts with OS X.</li>
+ kyua in the Homebrew packaging system on OS X. The Homebrew
+ project accepted this. Now, kyua can easily be installed on
+ OS X via a Homebrew package. Hopefully this will make it
+ easier to share more test infrastructure and scripts with OS
+ X.</li>
<li>&a.rodrigc; submitted to the Debian project a kyua
package. Approval for this is still pending. A package
- will make it much easier to install kyua on Linux distributions which
- use Debian packages such as Debian, Ubuntu, and Linux Mint. Hopefully
- &os; this will make it easier to share more test infrastructure and
- scripts with Linux.</li>
+ will make it much easier to install kyua on Linux
+ distributions which use Debian packages such as Debian,
+ Ubuntu, and Linux Mint. Hopefully &os; this will make it
+ easier to share more test infrastructure and scripts with
+ Linux.</li>
<li>Brian Gardner submitted scripts to run the Regression Test
- Harness for OpenJDK (jtreg). The test results are in JUnit XML
- format, which can be natively imported into Jenkins.</li>
+ Harness for OpenJDK (jtreg). The test results are in JUnit
+ XML format, which can be natively imported into
+ Jenkins.</li>
<li>Ahmed Kamal, an experienced devops expert and past
contributor to the Ubuntu project, offered to help
&a.rodrigc; with improving the automation and deployment of
- Jenkins nodes in the &os; cluster using the Saltstack automation
- framework. Ahmed is interested in helping the &os; project.</li>
+ Jenkins nodes in the &os; cluster using the Saltstack
+ automation framework. Ahmed is interested in helping the
+ &os; project.</li>
<li>&a.rodrigc; worked with &a.adrian; to set up Jenkins
builds of MIPS targets. The next step will be to get kyua
@@ -927,7 +974,7 @@
<task>
<p>Improve the maintenance of nodes in the Jenkins cluster
- using devops frameworks such as Saltstack.</p>
+ using devops frameworks such as Saltstack.</p>
</task>
<task>
@@ -957,35 +1004,48 @@
<body>
<p>Xfce is a free software desktop environment for Unix and
- Unix-like platforms, such as &os;. It aims to be fast and
- lightweight, while still being visually appealing and easy to use.</p>
+ Unix-like platforms, such as &os;. It aims to be fast and
+ lightweight, while still being visually appealing and easy to
+ use.</p>
- <p>During this quarter, the team has kept these applications up-to-date:</p>
+ <p>During this quarter, the team has kept these applications
+ up-to-date:</p>
<ul>
<li>misc/xfce4-weather-plugin 0.8.5</li>
+
<li>science/xfce4-equake-plugin 1.3.6</li>
+
<li>sysutils/xfce4-netload-plugin 1.2.4</li>
+
<li>sysutils/xfce4-systemload-plugin 1.1.2</li>
+
<li>www/midori 0.5.9</li>
+
<li>x11/xfce4-taskmanager 1.1.0</li>
+
<li>x11/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin 1.4.2</li>
+
<li>x11-wm/xfce4-desktop 4.10.3</li>
</ul>
- <p>Two new ports have also been added (taken from our repository):</p>
+ <p>Two new ports have also been added (taken from our
+ repository):</p>
<ul>
<li>deskutils/xfce4-volumed-pulse</li>
+
<li>x11/xfce4-dashboard</li>
</ul>
- <p>Moreover, we are working on the next stable release, with these
- ports being updated:</p>
+ <p>Moreover, we are working on the next stable release, with
+ these ports being updated:</p>
<ul>
<li>sysutils/xfce4-power-manager 1.4.2</li>
+
<li>x11/xfce4-dashboard 0.3.4</li>
+
<li>x11-wm/xfce4-session 4.11.1</li>
</ul>
@@ -993,22 +1053,28 @@
<ul>
<li>bug <a href="https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11104">#11104</a>, to keep 'wallpaper settings' in Ristretto with xfdesktop >= 4.11</li>
+
<li>bug <a href="https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11249">#11249</a>, add 'Hidden' option in desktop item editor (refused)</li>
+
<li>bug <a href="https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11413">#11413</a>, to use sysctl(3) and acpi_video(4) for backlight support</li>
</ul>
- <p>A FAQ is being written <a href="https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1305">D1305</a>.</p>
+ <p>A FAQ is being written
+ <a href="https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1305">D1305</a>.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>
- <p>Find workaround <tt>when acpi_video(4)</tt> is not functional
- (panel crashes); OpenBSD seems to have same problem.</p>
+ <p>Find workaround <tt>when acpi_video(4)</tt> is not
+ functional (panel crashes); OpenBSD seems to have same
+ problem.</p>
</task>
+
<task>
<p>Clean up patch in order to add new panel plugin in ports
tree.</p>
</task>
+
<task>
<p>Continue to work on documentation, especially the Porter's
Handbook.</p>
@@ -1036,17 +1102,15 @@
<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, working and committed. Ermal Luçi (eri@) is working
- on adding support for the additional modes to IPsec.</p>
+ OpenCrypto framework. Both software and AES-NI accelerated
+ versions are functional, working and committed. Ermal Luçi
+ (eri@) is working on adding support for the additional modes
+ to IPsec.</p>
</body>
- <sponsor>
- The &os; Foundation
- </sponsor>
- <sponsor>
- Netgate
- </sponsor>
+ <sponsor>The &os; Foundation</sponsor>
+
+ <sponsor>Netgate</sponsor>
<help>
<task>
@@ -1073,72 +1137,81 @@
</links>
<body>
- <p>Mesa was upgraded to 10.3, then 10.4 for FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE and
- 11-CURRENT. We test release candidates and therefore this port is
- now usually updated shortly after a new release. Mesa 10.x brings
- huge improvements in terms of OpenGL standards support, performance
- and stability, especially for Radeon owners. Mesa 9.1 is kept for
- &os; 9.x, but we have plans to fix this; see below.</p>
-
- <p><tt>graphics/gbm</tt> and <tt>devel/libclc</tt> are new ports used
- by Mesa to implement OpenCL. The next step is to finish the port for
- Mesa's libOpenCL.so, named Clover. This will permit users to run
- OpenCL programs on Radeon GPUs for now.</p>
-
- <p>xserver was upgraded from 1.12 to 1.14. This is the last version
- of xserver supporting Mesa 9.1. Changes are described in an article
- on the blog. The most noticeable one is the switch from
- the input device detection back-end based on HAL to the one based on
- <tt>devd(8)</tt>. <tt>hald(8)</tt> is still required by many desktop environments, but
- the X.Org server itself is free from it.</p>
-
- <p>xserver was the last port supporting the <tt>WITH_NEW_XORG</tt>
- knob. The knob is now completely removed. This was the occasion to
- add <tt>WITH_NEW_XORG</tt> and <tt>WITH_KMS</tt> to the list of
- deprecated knobs to help people clean up their <tt>make.conf</tt>.
- At the same time, the new-xorg alternate pkg repository was
- deprecated.</p>
+ <p>Mesa was upgraded to 10.3, then 10.4 for FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE
+ and 11-CURRENT. We test release candidates and therefore this
+ port is now usually updated shortly after a new release. Mesa
+ 10.x brings huge improvements in terms of OpenGL standards
+ support, performance and stability, especially for Radeon
+ owners. Mesa 9.1 is kept for &os; 9.x, but we have plans to
+ fix this; see below.</p>
+
+ <p><tt>graphics/gbm</tt> and <tt>devel/libclc</tt> are new ports
+ used by Mesa to implement OpenCL. The next step is to finish
+ the port for Mesa's libOpenCL.so, named Clover. This will
+ permit users to run OpenCL programs on Radeon GPUs for
+ now.</p>
+
+ <p>xserver was upgraded from 1.12 to 1.14. This is the last
+ version of xserver supporting Mesa 9.1. Changes are described
+ in an article on the blog. The most noticeable one is the
+ switch from the input device detection back-end based on HAL
+ to the one based on <tt>devd(8)</tt>. <tt>hald(8)</tt> is
+ still required by many desktop environments, but the X.Org
+ server itself is free from it.</p>
+
+ <p>xserver was the last port supporting the
+ <tt>WITH_NEW_XORG</tt> knob. The knob is now completely
+ removed. This was the occasion to add <tt>WITH_NEW_XORG</tt>
+ and <tt>WITH_KMS</tt> to the list of deprecated knobs to help
+ people clean up their <tt>make.conf</tt>. At the same time,
+ the new-xorg alternate pkg repository was deprecated.</p>
<p>After discussion, two options were enabled by default:</p>
<ul>
- <li><tt>TEXTURE_FLOAT</tt> in graphics/dri, which allows Mesa to
- advertise the support for OpenGL 3.0+;</li>
- <li><tt>LCD_FILTERING</tt> in <tt>print/freetype2</tt>, which enables the
- subpixel rendering engine, improving font anti-aliasing.</li>
+ <li><tt>TEXTURE_FLOAT</tt> in graphics/dri, which allows Mesa
+ to advertise the support for OpenGL 3.0+;</li>
+
+ <li><tt>LCD_FILTERING</tt> in <tt>print/freetype2</tt>, which
+ enables the subpixel rendering engine, improving font
+ anti-aliasing.</li>
</ul>
<p>These two packages now provide a better user experience
- out-of-the-box. Users who are uncomfortable with the options may
- unset them and rebuild the ports. There is no need to rebuild
- anything else.</p>
-
- <p>On the kernel side, Tijl Coosemans added AGP support back to the
- TTM memory manager and therefore to the Radeon driver. His work was
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