svn commit: r49845 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status
Benjamin Kaduk <[email protected]>
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Author: bjk
Date: Fri Jan 13 06:26:34 2017
New Revision: 49845
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/49845
Log:
Add the core entry from matthew
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-10-2016-12.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-10-2016-12.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-10-2016-12.xml Fri Jan 13 05:52:33 2017 (r49844)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-10-2016-12.xml Fri Jan 13 06:26:34 2017 (r49845)
@@ -670,4 +670,113 @@
list on GitHub.</task>
</help>
</project>
+
+ <project cat='team'>
+ <title>The &os; Core Team</title>
+
+ <contact>
+ <person>
+ <name>&os; Core Team</name>
+ <email>[email protected]</email>
+ </person>
+ </contact>
+
+ <body>
+ <p>The major concern for Core during the last quarter of 2016 has
+ been about maintaining the effectiveness of secteam. The team is
+ primarily in need of better project management, both to improve
+ communication generally and to allow the other team members to
+ concentrate on the technical aspects of handling
+ vulnerabilities.</p>
+
+ <p>To that end, there has been agreement in principle for either
+ the FreeBSD Foundation or one of the companies that are major
+ &os; users to employ someone specifically in this role.</p>
+
+ <p>Core confirmed that the new support model would go into effect
+ with 11.0-RELEASE despite the postponement of the switch to a
+ packaged base release mechanism. For details of the new support
+ model, please follow the links from the <a
+ href="https://www.FreeBSD.org/security/security.html">security</a>
+ page of the &os; website.</p>
+
+ <p>Core requested the removal of the <tt>misc/jive</tt> port, on
+ the grounds that it had no function other than to turn text into
+ an offensively racist parody. This proved controversial, with
+ many seeing this as a first step in bowdlerizing the entire ports
+ tree. That is certainly not Core's intention. Core's aim here is
+ to help secure the future of the &os; project by making it
+ welcoming to all contributors, regardless of ethnicity, gender,
+ sexuality or other improper bases for discrimintation. While
+ <tt>misc/jive</tt> may once have been seen as harmless fun, today
+ the implicit approval implied by having it in the ports tree sends
+ a message at odds with the project's aims.</p>
+
+ <p>The Marketing team and the associated [email protected]
+ mailing list were wound up, due to lack of activity. Messages to
+ [email protected] will be forwarded to the
+ FreeBSD Foundation's marketing team instead.</p>
+
+ <p>Core member Allan Jude, who was already the clusteradm liason,
+ became a full member of clusteradm.</p>
+
+ <p>An emergency correction to the 11.0 release notes was
+ authorised, as it was giving the misleading impression that
+ 802.11n wireless support had only just been added, and this
+ misapprehension was being repeated in the press. In reality, &os;
+ has had 802.11n support for many years, and the announcement
+ should have said that support had been added to many additional
+ device drivers.</p>
+
+ <p>Discussions about a proposal to improve Unicode support are
+ on-going. &os; is already standards conformant, but the
+ propsal is to switch to a <tt>__STDC_ISO_10646_</tt>
+ implementation, similar to what Linux glibc currently uses.
+ Opinions are divided on the technical merits of the new
+ approach.</p>
+
+ <p>There were the usual quota of queries about licensing and other
+ legal matters:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>Plans to create a GPLv3 overlay for the base system were
+ shelved in the light of faster than expected progress at
+ enabling building the world using an external toolchain.</li>
+
+ <li>The trademarks page on the website was updated to show the
+ current owners of a number of trademarks in their approved
+ form.</li>
+
+ <li>In the absense of a tool to extract and summarize all of the
+ relevant information, the obligation in the BSD license that
+ "Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above
+ copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following
+ disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided
+ with the distribution." is fulfilled by providing a tarball of
+ the system sources with their embedded copyright
+ statements.</li>
+
+ <li>The European Court of Justice's "Right to be
+ Forgotten" only applies to search engines, and the &os;
+ project is not one of those, so need not take any action.</li>
+
+ <li>Core is following closely discussions within the LLVM
+ project regarding a change of license which if implemented,
+ might require an audit of the
+ entire ports tree to discover all packages that contain binaries
+ linked against libc++ and ensure that they are licensed
+ compatibly with LLVM. However, indications are that the LLVM
+ project will not adopt such changes.</li>
+
+ <li>The "Open Source Exception" in the firmware
+ license means that committing a "binary blob" driver
+ for the Nvidia Jetson TK1 XHCI device is acceptable.</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>During this quarter four new commit bits were awarded. Please
+ welcome Dexuan Cui, David Bright, Konrad Witaszczyk, and Piotr
+ Stefaniak. We were sorry to see Edwin Lansing hang up his commit
+ bits and step down from portmgr.</p>
+ </body>
+ </project>
</report>
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