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Daniel Ebdrup Jensen <[email protected]>
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The branch main has been updated by debdrup: URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/doc/commit/?id=af1a1261248bc08dec900f9ae6c2ded35482b8c7 commit af1a1261248bc08dec900f9ae6c2ded35482b8c7 Author: Daniel Ebdrup Jensen <[email protected]> AuthorDate: 2021-01-15 15:49:08 +0000 Commit: Daniel Ebdrup Jensen <[email protected]> CommitDate: 2021-01-16 11:01:14 +0000 Add 2020Q4 quarterly status report While here, bump deadline for new submissions Reviewed by: PauAmma Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D28175 --- en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/Makefile | 2 + .../htdocs/news/status/report-2020-10-2020-12.xml | 2703 ++++++++++++++++++++ en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/status.xml | 4 +- 3 files changed, 2707 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/Makefile b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/Makefile index d44428f747..f9b4351fd8 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/Makefile +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/Makefile @@ -89,6 +89,8 @@ XMLDOCS+= report-2019-10-2019-12 XMLDOCS+= report-2020-01-2020-03 XMLDOCS+= report-2020-04-2020-06 XMLDOCS+= report-2020-07-2020-09 +XMLDOCS+= report-2020-10-2020-12 + XSLT.DEFAULT= report.xsl # Install a sample <project> entry. diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2020-10-2020-12.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2020-10-2020-12.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..79f68f72a1 --- /dev/null +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2020-10-2020-12.xml @@ -0,0 +1,2703 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> +<!DOCTYPE report PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD FreeBSD XML Database for + Status Report//EN" + "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/share/xml/statusreport.dtd" > + +<!-- $FreeBSD$ --> + +<!-- + Variables to replace: + 10 - report month start + 12 - report month end + 2020 - report year + %%NUM%% - report issue (first, second, third, fourth) + %%STARTNEXT%% - report month start + %%STOPNEXT%% - report month end + %%YEARNEXT%% - next report due year (if different than 2020) + %%DUENEXT%% - next report due date (i.e., June 6) +--> + +<report> + <date> + <month>10-12</month> + + <year>2020</year> + </date> + + <section> + <title>Introduction</title> +<p>This report covers FreeBSD related projects for the period between +October and December, and is the fourth of four planned reports for 2020. +</p> +<p>This quarter had quite a lot of work done, including but certainly not +limited to, in areas relating to everything from multiple architectures +such as x86, aarch64, riscv, and ppc64 for both base and ports, over kernel +changes such as vectored aio, routing lookups and multipathing, an +alternative random(4) implementation, zstd integration for kernel +dumps, log compression, zfs and preparations for pkg(8), along with +wifi changes, changes to the toolchain like the new elfctl utility, +and all the way to big changes like the git migration and moving the +documentation from DocBook to Hugo/AsciiDoctor, as well as many other +things too numerous to mention in an introduction. +</p> +<p>This report with 42 entries, which don't hold the answer to life, the +universe and everything, couldn't have happened without all the people +doing the work also writing an entry for the report, so the quarterly +team would like to thank them, as otherwise, we wouldn't have anything +to do. +</p> +<p>Please note that the deadline for submissions covering the period +between January and March is March 31st. +</p> +<p>We hope you'll enjoy reading as much as we enjoyed compiling it. +Daniel Ebdrup Jensen, on behalf of the quarterly team. +</p> </section> +<project cat='team'> +<title>FreeBSD Foundation</title> + +<contact> +<person> +<name>Deb Goodkin</name> +<email>[email protected]</email> +</person> +</contact> + +<body><p>The FreeBSD Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to +supporting and promoting the FreeBSD Project and community worldwide. Funding +comes from individual and corporate donations and is used to fund and manage +software development projects, conferences and developer summits, and provide +travel grants to FreeBSD contributors. The Foundation purchases and supports +hardware to improve and maintain FreeBSD infrastructure and provides resources +to improve security, quality assurance, and release engineering efforts; +publishes marketing material to promote, educate, and advocate for the FreeBSD +Project; facilitates collaboration between commercial vendors and FreeBSD +developers; and finally, represents the FreeBSD Project in executing contracts, +license agreements, and other legal arrangements that require a recognized +legal entity. +</p> +<p>Here are some highlights of what we did to help FreeBSD last quarter: +</p> +<h3>COVID-19 Impact to the Foundation</h3> + +<p>Like most organizations, we transitioned all of our staff to work from home. +We also put a temporary ban on travel for staff members, which didn't affect +our output too much, since most conferences went virtual. We continued +supporting the community and Project, even though some of our work and +responses may have been delayed because of changes in some of our priorities +and the impact of limited childcare for a few of our staff members. +</p> +<h3>Partnerships and Commercial User Support</h3> + +<p>We help facilitate collaboration between commercial users and FreeBSD +developers. We also meet with companies to discuss their needs and bring that +information back to the Project. Not surprisingly, the stay at home orders, +combined with our company ban on travel during Q4 made in-person meetings +non-existent. However, the team was able to continue meeting with our partners +and commercial users virtually. These meetings help us understand some of the +applications where FreeBSD is used. +</p> +<p>An event we help plan and organize, that helps with vendor/developer +engagement, is the annual Bay Area Vendor Summit. We weren't going to let a +pandemic stop us from holding this invaluable yearly event, so we went virtual! +From the feedback we received from the vendor community on how we should run +this, so it would be beneficial for them, we decided to hold this over 3 half +days in November. One unexpected result was that more commercial users from +around the world attended. Since a Vendor/Developer Summit is typically +invitation only, we opened this up to FreeBSD contributors from around the +world to watch the livestream. Because of the success and excitement of this +event, we are planning to hold another one around June or July. +</p> +<h3>Fundraising Efforts</h3> + +<p>We want to take a moment to say thank you to all the individuals and +corporations that stepped up to help fund our efforts last year. As of this +writing, we raised $1,235,926, and will have the final tally by mid-January. +The companies that gave generous financial contributions include Arm, NetApp, +Netflix, Juniper Networks, Beckhoff, VMware, Stormshield, Tarsnap, and Google. +We also want to say thank you to the Koum Family Foundation for awarding us a +large grant, and to "the employees of Ngnix" who also made generous financial +contributions. +</p> +<p>We truly appreciate these large contributions, which makes the most impact on +how much we can contribute back to the Project. However, it's the individual +donations that have the most meaning to us. Those are the folks who are giving +because they trust we will invest their personal donations, whether large or +small, into improving the operating system and Project. As stewards of your +donations, we want to thank you for your trust in us and your commitment to +making FreeBSD the best platform for products, education, research, computing, +and more. +</p> +<p>You'll find out how we used your donations for Q4 in our report, as well as in +individual reports throughout this status report. +</p> +<p>Though we know this is a Q4 status report, we are excited about our plans for +2021, including growing our software development team! We'll be posting two +job descriptions for a Senior Software Developer and Project Coordinator soon. +</p> +<p>Please consider making a donation to help us continue and increase our support +for FreeBSD in 2021: https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/donate/. +</p> +<p>We also have the Partnership Program, to provide more benefits for our larger +commercial donors. Find out more information at +https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/FreeBSD-foundation-partnership-program/ +and share with your companies! +</p> +<h3>OS Improvements</h3> + +<p>The Foundation provided many project grants over the last quarter, and you +can read about OpenZFS Zstd support, Linuxulator application compatibility +improvements, LLDB target support, test lab infrastructure, and WiFi projects +in other entries in this quarterly report. +</p> +<p>The Foundation hired six co-op students from the University of Waterloo during +the 2020 fall term, as well as one intern. Former co-op student Tiger +returned, and new students Yang and Zac joined us for the first time. +</p> +<p>Tiger worked on improvements to the code-coverage guided kernel fuzzing tool +Syzkaller, adding new system call definitions so that Syzkaller can expand the +code it tests. A number of FreeBSD kernel bug fixes have already resulted from +this work. Tiger also contributed a number of improvements to the ELF Tool +Chain set of binary utilities, and worked on tooling to run tests from other +tool suites against ELF Tool Chain. +</p> +<p>Zac worked on an improvement to the pkg package management tool, investigating +and upstreaming patches for FreeBSD support in FreePBX, and investigating +compiler support for addressing the stack clash vulnerability. +</p> +<p>Yang investigated and fixed a compilation bug with the kernel's Skein-1024 +assembly implementation (used by ZFS), and then a number of projects related to +Capsicum: applying Capsicum to sort(1), implementing a Capsicum service to +execute utilities, and finally working with developers of the Game of Trees +(got) version control system to adapt it for Capsicum support. +</p> +<p>Our intern Ka Ho focused on improving the desktop experience of the FreeBSD. +He fixed and improved many items of OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) on +FreeBSD, worked on FreeBSD native audio support on Firefox, adding a facility +that user-space audio programs could make use of to enumerate a list of audio +devices. He also ported the fcitx5 input method framework. +</p> +<p>The five Foundation staff members continued contributions in 2020 in both +ongoing operational tasks (including the Git working group and security team) +and software development for a number of projects. +</p> +<p>Staff members responded to reported security vulnerabilities and release +errata, prepared patches, and participated in the security advisory process. +We also worked on proactive security vulnerability mitigations. Syzkaller +also provided many reports of kernel issues that resulted in +Foundation-sponsored bug fixes. We worked on several issues relating to +FreeBSD/arm64 to move it along the path of being a Tier-1 architecture. +</p> +<p>We participated in code reviews and supported community members in integrating +changes into FreeBSD, and triaged incoming bug reports. +</p> +<p>We contributed enhancements to many kernel and userland subsystems, including +the x86 pmap layer, ELF run-time linker and kernel loader, the Capsicum +sandboxing framework and Casper services, the threading library, some RISC-V +changes, the build system, tool chain and freebsd-update, network stack +stability improvements, machine-dependent optimizations, new kernel interfaces, +DTrace bug fixes, documentation improvements, and others. +</p> +<p>### Continuous Integration and Quality Assurance +</p> +<p>The Foundation provides a full-time staff member and funds projects on +improving continuous integration, automated testing, and overall quality +assurance efforts for the FreeBSD Project. +</p> +<p>During the fourth quarter of 2020, Foundation staff continued improving and +monitoring the Project's CI infrastructure, and working with experts to fix +the failing builds and the regressions found by tests. The work was focused +on pre-commit tests and development of the CI staging environment. The other +main working item is working on the VCS migration to change the src and doc +source from Subversion to Git. There are also many work-in-progress tasks like +analysis and improve the tests of non-x86 platforms. +</p> +<p>See the FreeBSD CI section of this report for completed work items and detailed +information. +</p> +<h3>Supporting FreeBSD Infrastructure</h3> + +<p>The Foundation provides hardware and support to improve the FreeBSD +infrastructure. Last quarter, we continued supporting FreeBSD hardware located +around the world. We coordinated efforts between the new NYI Chicago facility +and clusteradm to start working on getting the facility prepared for some of +the new FreeBSD hardware we are planning on purchasing. NYI generously +provides this for free to the Project. We also worked on connecting with the +new owners of the NYI Bridgewater site, where most of the existing FreeBSD +infrastructure is located. +</p> +<p>Some of the purchases we made for the Project last quarter to support +infrastructure includes: +</p> +<ul> +<li><p>5 application servers to run tasks like bugzilla, wiki, website, cgi, + Phabricator, host git, etc. +</p></li> +<li><p>1 server to replace the old pkg server, which will provide a lot more IOPS + to avoid the slowdowns seen during peak times of the day where the disks + simply cannot keep up with the request volume. +</p></li> +<li><p>1 server for exp-runs and to make them faster. +</p></li> +<li><p>1 server to build packages more frequently. +</p> +</li></ul> +<h3>FreeBSD Advocacy and Education</h3> + +<p>A large part of our efforts are dedicated to advocating for the Project. This +includes promoting work being done by others with FreeBSD; producing advocacy +literature to teach people about FreeBSD and help make the path to starting +using FreeBSD or contributing to the Project easier; and attending and getting +other FreeBSD contributors to volunteer to run FreeBSD events, staff FreeBSD +tables, and give FreeBSD presentations. +</p> +<p>The FreeBSD Foundation sponsors many conferences, events, and summits around +the globe. These events can be BSD-related, open source, or technology events +geared towards underrepresented groups. We support the FreeBSD-focused events +to help provide a venue for sharing knowledge, to work together on projects, +and to facilitate collaboration between developers and commercial users. This +all helps provide a healthy ecosystem. We support the non-FreeBSD events to +promote and raise awareness of FreeBSD, to increase the use of FreeBSD in +different applications, and to recruit more contributors to the Project. +</p> +<p>While we were still unable to attend in-person meetings due to COVID-19, we +were able to attend virtual events at new venues and facilitate the first +online FreeBSD Vendor Summit. In addition to attending and planning virtual +events, we are continually working on new training initiatives and updating our +selection of <a href='https://freebsdfoundation.org/freebsd-project/resources/'>how-to guides</a> to facilitate getting more folks to try out FreeBSD. +</p> +<p>Check out some of the advocacy and education work we did last quarter: +</p> +<ul> +<li><p>Continued our FreeBSD Fridays series of 101 classes. Topics included an + Introduction to Capsicum, Introduction to Bhyve, Introduction to DTrace, and + more. Videos of the past sessions can be found <a href='https://freebsdfoundation.org/freebsd-fridays/'>here</a>. We'll be back with new + sessions in early 2021. +</p></li> +<li><p>Gave a FreeBSD talk at the nerdear.la conference on October 20th. +</p></li> +<li><p>Participated in the podcast: <a href='https://freebsdfoundation.org/news-and-events/latest-news/what-the-dev-podcast-a-dive-into-the-freebsd-foundation-on-its-20th-anniversary/'>What the Dev: A Dive into the FreeBSD Foundation on its 20th Anniversary</a> +</p></li> +<li><p>Promoted the Foundation's 20th Anniversary in the FossBytes article: + <a href='https://freebsdfoundation.org/news-and-events/latest-news/fossbytes-20-years-of-the-freebsd-foundation/'>20 Years of The FreeBSD Foundation</a> +</p></li> +<li><p>Continued to promote the FreeBSD Office Hours series. Videos from the one hour + sessions can be found on the Project's <a href='https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxLxR_oW-NAmChIcSkAyZGQ'>YouTube Channel</a>. See the Office Hours + section of this report for more information. +</p></li> +<li><p>Added two new How-To Guides: <a href='https://freebsdfoundation.org/contributing-freebsd-documentation/'>Contributing FreeBSD Documentation</a> + and <a href='https://freebsdfoundation.org/freebsd-project/resources/how-to-submit-a-bug-report/'>How to Submit a Bug Report</a>. +</p></li> +<li><p>Worked with the organizing committee to host the <a href='https://wiki.freebsd.org/DevSummit/202011'>November 2020 Vendor Summit</a> +</p></li> +<li><p>Promoted the <a href='https://freebsdfoundation.org/news-and-events/latest-news/freebsd-essential-to-bringing-cheri-and-arms-morello-processor-to-life/'>use of FreeBSD</a> in regards to CHERI and ARM's Morello Processor +</p></li> +<li><p>Authored a <a href='https://www.fosslife.org/beginners-guide-freebsd'>Beginners Guide to FreeBSD</a> for Fosslife. +</p></li> +<li><p>Sponsored All Things Open as a Media Sponsor. +</p></li> +<li><p>Sponsored OpenZFS Developers Summit at the Bronze level. +</p></li> +<li><p>Applied for a virtual stand at FOSDEM 2021. +</p></li> +<li><p>Committed to attend the online Apricot 2021. +</p> +</li></ul> +Keep up to date with our latest work in our newsletters: +<p>https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/news-and-events/newsletter/ +</p> +<p>Netflix provided an update on how and why they use FreeBSD in our latest +<a href='https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-case-study-netflix/'>Contributor Case Study</a>. +</p> +<p>We help educate the world about FreeBSD by publishing the professionally +produced FreeBSD Journal. As we mentioned previously, the FreeBSD Journal is +now a free publication. Find out more and access the latest issues at +https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/journal/. +</p> +<p>You can find out more about events we attended and upcoming events at +https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/news-and-events/. +</p> +<h3>Legal/FreeBSD IP</h3> + +<p>The Foundation owns the FreeBSD trademarks, and it is our responsibility to +protect them. We also provide legal support for the core team to investigate +questions that arise. +</p> +<p>Go to http://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org to find out how we support FreeBSD and +how we can help you! +</p></body></project> +<project cat='team'> +<title>FreeBSD Release Engineering Team </title> + +<contact> +<person> +<name>FreeBSD Release Engineering Team</name> +<email>[email protected]</email> +</person> +</contact> + +<links> +<url href='https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.2R/schedule.html'>FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE schedule</url> +<url href='https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.0R/schedule.html'>FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE schedule</url> +<url href='https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/snapshots/ISO-IMAGES/'>FreeBSD development snapshots</url> +</links> + +<body><p>The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is responsible for setting +and publishing release schedules for official project releases +of FreeBSD, announcing code freezes and maintaining the respective +branches, among other things. +</p> +<p>During the fourth quarter of 2020, the Release Engineering Team completed +work on 12.2-RELEASE, the third release from the stable/12 branch, released +on October 27. Thank you to all involved for the hard work that went into +this release. +</p> +<p>Additionally throughout the quarter, several development snapshots builds +were released for the head, stable/12, and stable/11 branches. +Development snapshot builds for 13.0-CURRENT have recently been built from +the Git tree within the project, while further snapshot builds for 12.x and +11.x will continue to be built from Subversion. As we approach the end of +2020, continued preparations are being put in place for the upcoming 13.0 +release, which will be the first release from Git. +</p> +<p>Much of this work was sponsored by Rubicon Communications, LLC (netgate.com) +and the FreeBSD Foundation. +</p></body></project> +<project cat='team'> +<title>Cluster Administration Team</title> + +<contact> +<person> +<name>Cluster Administration Team</name> +<email>[email protected]</email> +</person> +</contact> + +<links> +<url href='https://www.freebsd.org/administration.html#t-clusteradm'>Cluster Administration Team members</url> +</links> + +<body><p>The FreeBSD Cluster Administration Team consists of the people responsible for +administering the machines that the Project relies on for its distributed work +and communications to be synchronised. In this quarter, the team has worked +on the following: +</p> +<ul> +<li><p>Finished setting up the Malaysia mirror site, generously hosted by the + <a href='https://myren.net.my/'>Malaysian Research & Education Network</a>. Traffic + from Oceania and parts of Asia is now going to this mirror instead of + farther away sites like Japan and California. +</p></li> +<li><p>Upgraded the package building machines to a version of head from + mid-October 2020. +</p></li> +<li><p>Upgraded developer machines in the cluster (freefall, ref\* and universe\*) to + a version of head from mid-October 2020. +</p></li> +<li><p>Installed eight new x86 servers in our New Jersey site: + five application servers, two package builders and one mirror server. +</p><ul> +<li><p>The new mirror server is in production (pkg0.nyi.freebsd.org). +</p></li> +<li><p>The two package builders are in production. +</p></li> +<li><p>Two of the application servers have been put into production as the Git +source of truth and the cgit web frontend, respectively. +</p></li></ul> +</li><li><p>Installed two new aarch64 servers in our New Jersey site. Both are now + building aarch64 packages. +</p></li> +<li><p>Fixed package mirror synchronisation for powerpc64 packages. +</p></li> +<li><p>Rebuilt the ZFS pool on the UK mirror server (pkg0.bme.freebsd.org) for + better I/O parallelism. This should improve download performance + especially at peak times. +</p></li> +<li><p>Ongoing systems administration work: +</p><ul> +<li><p>Accounts management for committers. +</p></li> +<li><p>Backups of critical infrastructure. +</p></li> +<li><p>Keeping up with security updates in 3rd party software. +</p> +</li></ul> +</li></ul> +Work in progress: + +<ul> +<li><p>Hardware refreshing for web services, backup version control system in NYI +</p></li> +<li><p>Upgrading production machines in the FreeBSD cluster to 12.2 +</p><ul> +<li><p>Most machines have been upgraded as of mid-December 2020 +</p></li> +<li><p>Remaining machines will be decommissioned / repurposed after services +migrate to newer hardware +</p></li></ul> +</li><li><p>Supporting Git migration and infrastructure setup +</p></li> +<li><p>powerpc pkgbuilder/ref/universal machines +</p></li> +<li><p>Preparations for a new mirror site in Australia, to be hosted by + <a href='https://www.ix.asn.au'>IX Australia</a>. +</p></li> +<li><p>Setup Brazil (BRA) mirror. +</p></li> +<li><p>Review the service jails and service administrators operation. +</p></li> +<li><p>Searching for more providers that can fit the requirements for a + <a href='https://wiki.freebsd.org/Teams/clusteradm/generic-mirror-layout'>generic mirrored layout</a> + or a + <a href='https://wiki.freebsd.org/Teams/clusteradm/tiny-mirror'>tiny mirror</a>. +</p></li></ul> +</body></project> +<project cat='team'> +<title>Continuous Integration</title> + +<links> +<url href='https://ci.FreeBSD.org'>FreeBSD Jenkins Instance</url> +<url href='https://ci.FreeBSD.org/hwlab'>FreeBSD Hardware Testing Lab</url> +<url href='https://artifact.ci.FreeBSD.org'>FreeBSD CI artifact archive</url> +<url href='https://hackmd.io/@FreeBSD-CI'>FreeBSD CI weekly report</url> +<url href='https://wiki.freebsd.org/Jenkins'>FreeBSD Jenkins wiki</url> +<url href='https://wiki.freebsd.org/HostedCI'>Hosted CI wiki</url> +<url href='https://wiki.freebsd.org/3rdPartySoftwareCI'>3rd Party Software CI</url> +<url href='https://preview.tinyurl.com/y9maauwg'>Tickets related to freebsd-testing@</url> +<url href='https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ci'>FreeBSD CI Repository</url> +</links> + +<contact> +<person> +<name>Jenkins Admin</name> +<email>[email protected]</email> +</person> +<person> +<name>Li-Wen Hsu</name> +<email>[email protected]</email> +</person> +</contact> +<body><p>Contact: <a href='https://lists.FreeBSD.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-testing'>freebsd-testing Mailing List</a><br /> +Contact: IRC #freebsd-ci channel on EFNet<br /> +</p> +<p>The FreeBSD CI team maintains the continuous integration system +of the FreeBSD project. The CI system firstly checks the committed changes +can be successfully built, then performs various tests and analysis over the +newly built results. +The artifacts from those builds are archived in the artifact server for +further testing and debugging needs. The CI team members examine the +failing builds and unstable tests and work with the experts in that area to +fix the code or adjust test infrastructure. The details of these efforts +are available in the <a href='https://hackmd.io/@FreeBSD-CI'>weekly CI reports</a>. +</p> +<p>During the fourth quarter of 2020, we continued working with the contributors and +developers in the project to fulfil their testing needs and also keep +collaborating with external projects and companies to improve their products +and FreeBSD. +</p> +<p>Important changes: +</p> +<ul> +<li><p>doc jobs were changed to use git to follow VCS migration: +</p><ul> +<li><p>https://ci.freebsd.org/job/FreeBSD-doc-main/ +</p></li> +<li><p>https://ci.freebsd.org/job/FreeBSD-doc-main-igor/ + Thanks Brandon Bergren (bdragon@) +</p></li></ul> +</li><li><p>head and stable/12 build environment have been upgraded to 12.2-RELEASE +</p> +</li></ul> +New jobs added: + +<ul> +<li><p><a href='https://ci.freebsd.org/job/FreeBSD-head-riscv64-LINT'>LINT kernel of head on riscv64</a> +</p> +</li></ul> +Work in progress: + +<ul> +<li><p>Follow VCS migration, change src jobs to use Git - PRs are + <a href='https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ci/pull/121'>available</a> + Thanks Brandon Bergren (bdragon@) +</p></li> +<li><p>Collecting and sorting CI tasks and ideas + <a href='https://hackmd.io/@FreeBSD-CI/freebsd-ci-todo'>here</a> +</p></li> +<li><p>Testing and merging pull requests in the + <a href='https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ci/pulls'>the FreeBSD-ci repo</a> +</p></li> +<li><p>Designing and implementing pre-commit CI building and testing +</p></li> +<li><p>Reducing the procedures of CI/test environment setting up for contributors and + developers +</p></li> +<li><p>Setting up the CI stage environment and putting the experimental jobs on it +</p></li> +<li><p>Setting up public network access for the VM guest running tests +</p></li> +<li><p>Implementing automatic tests on bare metal hardware +</p></li> +<li><p>Adding drm ports building tests against -CURRENT +</p></li> +<li><p>Planning to run ztest and network stack tests +</p></li> +<li><p>Adding more external toolchain related jobs +</p></li> +<li><p>Improving the hardware lab to be more mature and adding more hardware +</p></li> +<li><p>Helping more software get FreeBSD support in their CI pipeline + Wiki pages: <a href='https://wiki.freebsd.org/3rdPartySoftwareCI'>3rdPartySoftwareCI</a>, + <a href='https://wiki.freebsd.org/HostedCI'>HostedCI</a> +</p></li> +<li><p>Working with hosted CI providers to have better FreeBSD support +</p></li> +<li><p>The build and test results will be sent to the + <a href='https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/dev-ci'>dev-ci mailing list</a> + soon. Feedback and help with analysis is very appreciated! +</p> +</li></ul> +Please see freebsd-testing@ related tickets for more WIP information, and don't hesitate to join the effort! + +<p>Sponsor: The FreeBSD Foundation +</p></body></project> +<project cat='team'> +<title>Ports Collection</title> + +<links> +<url href='https://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/'>About FreeBSD Ports</url> +<url href='https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/ports-contributing.html'>Contributing to Ports</url> +<url href='http://portsmon.freebsd.org/index.html'>FreeBSD Ports Monitoring</url> +<url href='https://www.freebsd.org/portmgr/index.html'>Ports Management Team</url> +<url href='http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/'>Ports Tarball</url> +</links> + +<contact> +<person> +<name>René Ladan</name> +<email>[email protected]</email> +</person> +<person> +<name>FreeBSD Ports Management Team</name> +<email>[email protected]</email> +</person> +</contact> + +<body><p>The Ports Management Team is responsible for overseeing the +overall direction of the Ports Tree, building packages, and +personnel matters. Below is what happened in the last quarter. +</p> +<p>For the last quarter the dashboard looks like: +</p> +<ul> +<li><p>41500 ports (including flavors) +</p></li> +<li><p>2516 open PRs of which 625 are unassigned +</p></li> +<li><p>8715 commits to the HEAD branch by 164 committers +</p></li> +<li><p>420 commits to the 2020Q4 branch by 59 committers +</p> +</li></ul> +Compared to the third quarter, the PR statistics mostly stayed the same. There +<p>were slightly fewer commits by the same number of people. The number of ports +again grew steadily, this time by almost 4 percent. +</p> +<p>During the last quarter, we welcomed Juray Lutter (otis@) as a new ports +committer and said goodbye to cpm, jadawin, knu, araujo, mmokhi and scottl. +</p> +<p>Traditionally merges to the quarterly ports branches, which are more +conservative versions of the HEAD tree, required approval of either the +Ports Security Team (ports-secteam@) or portgmr@. There were already a number +of blanket approvals for tested commits, ranging from fixing typing mistakes to +upgrading web browsers to their latest version. As of last December, all +ports committers are free to merge on their own, lessening the burden on +ports-secteam@. +</p> +<p>Patent limitations have been disconnected from the license framework, given +that patents are a complex topic with implications varying from one jurisdiction +to another. +</p> +<p>The last quarter saw a number of updates to default versions of ports: +</p> +<ul> +<li><p>librsvg2: "rust" on supported platforms, "legacy" + otherwise +</p></li> +<li><p>Mono: 5.10 +</p></li> +<li><p>FPC switched to 3.2.0 +</p></li> +<li><p>GCC switched to 10 for powerpc64le +</p></li> +<li><p>Lazarus switched to 2.0.10 +</p></li> +<li><p>Ruby switched to 2.7.X +</p></li> +<li><p>Samba switched to 4.12 +</p> +</li></ul> +During the last quarter, a new virtual category was added: "education" for ports +<p>that for instance help the user to learn about a certain topic or help +facilitating examinations. +</p> +<p>The @shell and @sample keywords have been rewritten in Lua which makes root-dir +compliant (see pkg -r) and ensures they are Capsicum-sandboxed. +</p> +<p>The last quarter also saw updates to several user-facing ports: +</p> +<ul> +<li><p>Firefox 84.0.1 +</p></li> +<li><p>Firefox-esr 78.6.0 +</p></li> +<li><p>Chromium 87.0.4280.88 +</p></li> +<li><p>Ruby 2.7.2 +</p></li> +<li><p>Qt5 5.15.2 +</p></li> +<li><p>XFce 4.16 +</p> +</li></ul> +As always, antoine@ was busy running exp-runs, 37 this quarter, testing: + +<ul> +<li><p>various ports upgrades +</p></li> +<li><p>changing sys/cdefs.h in base +</p></li> +<li><p>adding "set pipefail" to most framework scripts to catch errors earlier +</p></li> +<li><p>changing the default locale to C.UTF-8 in base +</p></li> +<li><p>using bsdgrep as /usr/bin/grep +</p></li></ul> +</body></project> +<project cat='team'> +<title>Office Hours</title> + +<contact> +<person> +<name>Allan Jude</name> +<email>[email protected]</email> +</person> +<person> +<name>Ed Maste</name> +<email>[email protected]</email> +</person> +</contact> + +<body><p>During the final quarter of 2020 three office hours sessions were held. +</p> +<p>The first was hosted by the core team in a time slot conducive to Asia and +Australia, covering topics including the transition to git, recruiting for +project teams, and core's todo list. +</p> +<p>The second was hosted by the git transition team, and answered attendee +questions about the transition to git and how it would impact the project's +workflows. +</p> +<p>The third session was hosted by bhyve maintainers Peter Grehan and John Baldwin +to present recent development efforts and answer questions about bhyve. +</p> +<p>The project is looking for volunteers to host future office hours sessions, as +well as taking topic suggestions. We also hope to improve the system to allow people +to submit questions ahead of time, so that we can take maximum advantage of +subject matter experts when we have them for these calls. +</p> +<p>You can find the schedule for future office hours, and videos of past +office hours on the <a href='https://wiki.freebsd.org/OfficeHours'>FreeBSD Wiki</a> +</p> +<p>Sponsor: ScaleEngine Inc. +</p></body></project> +<project cat='proj'> +<title>GPL in Base</title> + +<links> +<url href='https://wiki.freebsd.org/GPLinBase'>GPL Software in the Base System</url> +</links> + +<contact> +<person> +<name>Ed Maste</name> +<email>[email protected]</email> +</person> +<person> +<name>Kyle Evans</name> +<email>[email protected]</email> +</person> +<person> +<name>Baptiste Daroussin</name> +<email>[email protected]</email> +</person> +</contact> + +<body><p>A long-standing goal of the FreeBSD project is for the base system to migrate +to modern, copyfree or more permissively licensed components. In this quarter, +the following components have been successfully removed or replaced: +</p> +<ul> +<li><p>gdb (<a href='https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=1c0ea326aa6d'>removed</a> in favor of lldb in base or devel/gdb in ports) +</p></li> +<li><p>gnugrep (<a href='https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=b82a9ec5f53e'>replaced</a> with bsdgrep) +</p></li> +<li><p>libgnuregex (<a href='https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=8aff76fb37b5'>removed</a>) +</p> +</li></ul> +The following component(s) have yet to be claimed. Some replacement prospects +<p>may be listed on the above-linked wiki page. Interested parties are welcome to +evaluate the options to restart the discussion: +</p> +<ul> +<li><p>dialog +</p></li> +<li><p>gcov (kernel) +</p> +</li></ul> +The following component(s) have a principal investigator to coordinate work. +<p>Note that partial completion likely means that a component is partially +compatible, but could use evaluation and patches to bring parity with the +component that it is replacing. +</p> +<ul> +<li><p>diff3 (Contact bapt@ if interested) +</p></li></ul> +</body></project> +<project cat='proj'> +<title>Git Migration Working Group</title> + +<links> +<url href='https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src'>src (base system) git repo</url> +<url href='https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/doc'>doc git repo</url> +<url href='https://cgit-dev.FreeBSD.org/ports'>Beta ports git repo</url> +<url href='https://github.com/bsdimp/freebsd-git-docs'>Warner's git documentation repo</url> +<url href='https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-git'>FreeBSD-git mailing list</url> +<url href='https://github.com/freebsd/git_conv'>Git conversion tooling repo</url> +<url href='http://gameoftrees.org/'>Game of Trees</url> +<url href='https://github.com/johnmehr/gitup'>gitup</url> +</links> + +<contact> +<person> +<name>Li-Wen Hsu</name> +<email>[email protected]</email> +</person> +<person> +<name>Warner Losh</name> +<email>[email protected]</email> +</person> +<person> +<name>Ed Maste</name> +<email>[email protected]</email> +</person> +<person> +<name>Ulrich Spörlein</name> +<email>[email protected]</email> +</person> +</contact> + +<body><p>The Git working group largely completed the migration of the doc and src +(base system) trees from Subversion to Git in December 2020. We are currently +working on some minor outstanding issues and preparing for the ports tree +migration. +</p> +<p>We set up new hosts to serve as the Git repositories and mirrors, and developed +commit hooks for restrictions on commits to various branches, generation of +commit mail, and similar needs. +</p> +<p>The doc tree migration occurred on December 8th and 9th. After the conversion +some minor changes to the documentation build infrastructure were necessary. +</p> +<p>The src tree migration occurred between December 20th and 23rd for the main +branch; some additional tasks occurred over the next week or so. These +included enabling the stable branches, vendor (contrib) code updates, and +the git->svn gateway. We are translating stable branch commits to Subversion +for the stable/11 and stable/12 branches and associated release branches. This +allows FreeBSD users who follow stable branches or releases to continue using +existing processes and tooling. +</p> +<p>An experimental Git conversion of the ports tree is available at the link +above. There are some unique challenges in the ports tree (that do not impact +the doc or src repos in the same way), so additional work is ongoing. The +window for migrating the ports tree is immediately prior to a quarterly +branch, so we anticipate a migration at the end of March 2021. Over the next +few months testing of the experimental ports repo is very welcome. +</p> +<p>Process documentation for developer and user interaction with FreeBSD's +repositories is currently available in Warner's GitHub repository at the link +above. It will be moved to the FreeBSD developer's handbook and/or other +suitable locations following the documentation project's asciidoc conversion. +</p> +<p>The working group is experimenting with two permissively-licensed tools that +are compatible with Git servers or repositories. Game of Trees is a version +control system that is compatible with Git repositories. It is being developed +by Stefan Sperling along with some OpenBSD developers and other contributions. +</p> +<p>John Mehr's gitup is a minimal, dependency-free program that clones and +synchronizes a local tree with a remote repository. It is intended for use +cases that would otherwise be served by tools like portsnap. +</p> +<p>Sponsor: The FreeBSD Foundation (in part) +</p></body></project> +<project cat='proj'> +<title>Linux compatibility layer update</title> + +<contact> +<person> +<name>Edward Tomasz Napierala</name> +<email>[email protected]</email> +</person> +</contact> + +<body><p>Linuxulator improvements have been ongoing for the last two years, +with support from the FreeBSD foundation over a few distinct project +grants as well as contributions from the community. +The goal of this project is to improve FreeBSD's ability to execute +unmodified Linux binaries. +Current status is being tracked at <a href='https://wiki.freebsd.org/LinuxApps'>Linux app status Wiki page</a>. +The work has now shifted from command-line apps to desktop applications. +</p> +<p>There wasn't much Foundation-sponsored work done during this quarter, +apart from extending fuse(4) to make it possible to run Linux FUSE +servers, which is one of the things required to run AppImages. +The Foundation-sponsored effort will continue into the first quarter +of 2021 in order to make sure the 13.0-RELEASE ships with Linuxulator in a good shape. +</p> +<p>There was a very significant contribution from Conrad Meyer in the form +of <code>SO_PASSCRED</code> setsockopt(2) support, <code>PR_SETDUMPABLE</code> and <code>PR_GETDUMPABLE</code> +prctl(2) flags, and also <code>CLONE_FS</code> and <code>CLONE_FILES</code> handling. This, +along with some more cleanups and improvements, leads to working Linux +Chromium; it has been tested with Netflix and Spotify clients. It still +requires three flags (<code>--no-sandbox --no-zygote --in-process-gpu</code>) +to be passed on the command line to work around missing functionality, though. Also, +the name_to_handle_at(2) and open_by_handle_at(2) syscalls are now supported. +There are also much better debug messages for unrecognized socket options. +</p> +<p>Sponsor: The FreeBSD Foundation +</p></body></project> +<project cat='proj'> +<title>LLDB Debugger Improvements</title> + +<links> +<url href='https://www.moritz.systems/blog/lldb-debugger-improvements-for-freebsd/'>Moritz Systems Project Description</url> +<url href='https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/guest-blog-foundation-sponsors-freebsd-lldb-improvements/'>FreeBSD Foundation Blog</url> +<url href='https://github.com/moritz-systems/llvm-project'>Git Repository</url> +</links> + +<contact> +<person> +<name>Kamil Rytarowski</name> +<email>[email protected]</email> +</person> +<person> +<name>Michał Górny</name> +<email>[email protected]</email> +</person> +</contact> + +<body><p>The LLDB project builds on libraries provided by LLVM and Clang to provide a +great modern debugger. It uses the Clang ASTs and the expression parser, LLVM +JIT, LLVM disassembler, etc so that it provides an experience that “just +works”. It is also blazing fast and more permissively licensed than GDB, the +GNU Debugger. +</p> +<p>LLDB is the default debugger in Xcode on macOS and supports debugging C, +Objective-C, and C++ on the desktop and iOS devices and the simulator. +</p> +<p>FreeBSD includes LLDB in the base system. At present, it has some limitations +in comparison with the GNU GDB debugger, and does not yet provide a complete +replacement. It used to rely on an obsolete plugin model in LLDB that was a +growing technical debt. This project aimed to bring LLDB closer to a fully +featured replacement for GDB, and therefore for FreeBSD to feature a modern +debugger for software developers. +</p> +<p>The legacy monolithic target support executed the application being debugged in +the same process space as the debugger. The modern LLDB plugin approach, used +on other supported targets, executes the target process under a separate +lldb-server process. This improves reliability and simplifies the process / +thread model in LLDB itself. In addition, remote and local debugging is now +performed using the same approach. +</p> +<p>After the migration to the new process model on 32 and 64-bit x86 CPUs, the +project focused on reviewing the results of LLDB’s test suite and fixing tests +as time permits. +</p> +<p>During the Moritz Systems work, the FreeBSD Project gained numerous important +improvements: in the kernel, userland base libraries (the dynamic loader) and +the LLVM toolchain FreeBSD support. +</p> +<p>The introduced changes are expected to be shipped with LLDB 12.0, and where +applicable in FreeBSD 13.0. +</p> +<p>The overall experience of FreeBSD/LLDB developers and advanced users on this +rock solid Operating System reached the state known from other environments. +Furthermore, the FreeBSD-focused work also resulted in generic improvements, +enhancing the LLDB support for Linux and NetBSD. +</p> + +<p>Sponsor: The FreeBSD Foundation<br /> +</p></body></project> +<project cat='proj'> +<title>Upstreaming NetApp Changes</title> + +<links> +<url href='https://klarasystems.com/freebsd-development/'>Klara Inc.</url> +</links> + *** 1772 LINES SKIPPED *** _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/dev-commits-doc-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"