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Benjamin Kaduk <[email protected]>
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Author: bjk
Date: Wed Aug 2 01:22:33 2017
New Revision: 50617
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/50617
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head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-04-2017-06.xml
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above.</p>
</body>
</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>Core's activities during the second quarter culminated in
+ the introduction of two new initiatives during BSDCan:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>Extending &os; Project Membership</li>
+
+ <li>The &os; Community Process</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <h3>&os; Project Members</h3>
+
+ <p>&os; Project Membership being extended to more than just
+ committers is a step that enables the Project to recognise and
+ reward people who support us in ways other than by writing
+ code. People that organise conferences or user groups; who
+ are prominent supporters on social media; who triage bug
+ reports and who test changes; and many others who contribute
+ in various ways, are deserving of recognition of the support
+ that they give to the Project. Core hopes that this will both
+ encourage more people to volunteer their time and effort on
+ behalf of the project, and encourage those who do to stick
+ with the Project, if not become more deeply involved.</p>
+
+ <p>The naming for the new group of non-committer Project members
+ took a few tries to get right: having tried, and rejected
+ "Contributor" and then "Associate", Core
+ took the view that since what they were offerring was formal
+ Project Membership, then that was the right thing to call it.
+ Committers thus become those Project Members with access to
+ commit to the Project's Code repositories. Project Members
+ receive an @FreeBSD.org e-mail address, access to various
+ Project hardware, access to internal mailing lists and other
+ communications channels, and invitations to attend Developer
+ Summits in their own right. Committers in addition have
+ commit rights in the Subversion repositories and GitHub, and
+ active Committers can vote in Core team elections.</p>
+
+ <h3>The &os; Community Process</h3>
+
+ <p>This is an idea that has a long pedigree within other projects,
+ and &os; is very consciously modelling its implementation on
+ what has worked elsewhere. When a significantly disruptive or
+ wide-scale change is proposed, we should have a formal
+ mechanism for documenting the change and what it implies.
+ Interested parties can then respond and the change can be
+ evolved into the best fit for all users, or else it can be
+ found to be impracticable and withdrawn. The documentation of
+ the change will remain as a point of reference should the same
+ or a similar proposal come up in the future. Creating a more
+ formal process should help avoid endless sterile arguments
+ about what needs to be done, without anyone feeling they have
+ sufficient investment in the idea nor backing from the
+ majority of the project to justify putting in the work to
+ achieve the desired result.</p>
+
+ <p>The very first FCP — FCP 0 — describes the
+ process itself. At the time of writing, Core is voting on
+ accepting the initial document, which can be viewed in the
+ Projects <a
+ href="https://github.com/freebsd/fcp/blob/master/fcp-0000.md">Github
+ repository</a>. Two new mailing lists have been created:
+ [email protected] is the channel for receiving notifications of
+ new FCP proposals and discussing their content, whilst
+ [email protected] exists to provide help with the
+ process of drafting the FCP documents.</p>
+
+ <h3>Other Core activities</h3>
+
+ <p>Core is delighted to announce that Gordon Tetlow has joined
+ the Security Officer team, and will be working on managing the
+ Secteam caseload, freeing up other members to concentrate on
+ the more technical aspects of vulnerability remediation. In
+ addition, Ed Maste has joined secteam and is available to
+ assist the Security Officers where necessary.</p>
+
+ <p>Although Florian Smeets had to step down, the postmaster team
+ has now recruited three new members and is now back up to
+ strength.</p>
+
+ <p>Considering the desirability of a number of fixes that have
+ been merged into 10-STABLE since the 10.3 release, core has
+ approved a 10.4 release to occur shortly after the 11.1
+ release. This will be a normal support-lifetime release,
+ unlike the extended lifetime of the 10.3 release, so the
+ overall support lifetime for the 10.x branch will not be
+ significantly extended.</p>
+
+ <p>During this quarter, Core has approved issuing three new
+ commit bits. Please welcome:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>Vladimir Kondratyev</li>
+
+ <li>Ryan Libby</li>
+
+ <li>Kyle Evans</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>Also, during this quarter, we had one person give up their
+ commit bit:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>Jordan Hubbard</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>It is always unsettling when one of the Project's founder
+ members decides to move on, but Jordan's interests have
+ migrated away from &os; related projects and he has decided to
+ hang up his bit once and for all.</p>
+
+ <p>Core would like to thank NTTA (formerly Verio) for providing
+ hosting for a cvsup mirror for many years, and also for their
+ kind offer to provide ongoing hosting for a machine in their
+ Seattle facility. Since we have no need for additional North
+ America hosting, we have declined their offer.</p>
+
+ <p>As usual, a number of questions have been raised about code
+ licensing and other matters related to intellectual property.
+ Ed Maste has registered "freebsd" on behalf of the
+ FreeBSD Foundation on the Mastodon social media network. The
+ "Unlicense" is suitable for code being imported into
+ libc. We still have some code published under the old
+ 4-clause style BSD license, where the extra clause refers
+ specifically to the University of California. While UC has
+ generally approved removing that clause, we need to check with
+ all copyright holders before changing any remaining 4-clause
+ licensing.</p>
+
+ <p>Core, along with Secteam, are monitoring developments
+ concerning the "Stack Clash" vulnerability that hit
+ the headlines during June. Changes to the stack-guard
+ mitigation system are underway as a consequence of the
+ proof-of-concept published by Qualys.</p>
+ </body>
+ </project>
</report>
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