On Sat, 5 Nov 2011, Daniel Gerzo wrote:
danger 2011-11-05 14:59:08 UTC
FreeBSD doc repository
Added files:
en/news/status report-2011-07-2011-09.xml
Log:
- add the status report for Q3/2011
Please review. I'd like to connect it to the build and release it on
Monday
Hi Daniel,
The attached patch runs something resembling a grammar comb over the
entries.
I worry that I have changed the meaning of the Ethernet Switch Framework
entry, though -- it was quite hard to make sense of.
I probably missed some things, though.
-Ben Kaduk
--- report-2011-07-2011-09.xml.orig 2011-11-06 14:41:26.000000000 -0500
+++ report-2011-07-2011-09.xml 2011-11-06 23:33:01.000000000 -0500
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@
<p>This report covers &os;-related projects between July and
September 2011. It is the third of the four reports planned for 2011.
- This quarter was mainly devoted to polishing the stuff for the next
- major version of &os;, 9.0, which is to be released in September.</p>
+ This quarter was mainly devoted to polishing the bits for the next
+ major version of &os;, 9.0, which is to be released in November.</p>
<p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report
contains 27 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
@@ -105,13 +105,13 @@
<p>We tried to re-activate committers who did not contribute for
some time but most of them are currently unable to free up enough
time. We hope to gain fresh contributor blood as we are getting
- occasional reports about bugs and grammar in the german
+ occasional reports about bugs and grammar in the German
translation.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Submit grammar, spelling or other errors you find in the
- german documents and the website</task>
+ German documents and the website</task>
<task>Translate more articles and other open handbook sections
(especially the new chapter about the new &os;
@@ -151,13 +151,13 @@
<p>The www/ja and doc/ja_JP.eucJP/books/handbook subtrees have
constantly been updated since the last report.</p>
- <p>www/ja: During this period, many part of outdated contents in
+ <p>www/ja: During this period, many areas of outdated content in
the www/ja subtree were updated to the latest versions in the
- English counterpart. The Japanese version of 8.2R release
+ English counterparts. The Japanese version of 8.2R release
announcement was added and the upcoming 9.0R announcement will be
translated in a timely manner.</p>
- <p>Handbook: Japanese "kernelconfig" section finally caught up with
+ <p>Handbook: The Japanese "kernelconfig" section finally caught up with
the original English version. The next targets are "cutting-edge"
and new installer section.</p>
</body>
@@ -200,10 +200,10 @@
</links>
<body>
- <p>The ports tree slowly moves up closer to 23,000. The PR count
+ <p>The ports tree slowly moves up closer to the 23,000 mark. The PR
count
still remains at about 1000.</p>
- <p>In Q2 we added 4 new committers, took in 6 commit bit for safe
+ <p>In Q2 we added 4 new committers, but took in 6 commit bits for safe
keeping.</p>
<p>The Ports Management team have been running -exp runs on an
@@ -215,12 +215,12 @@
<li>Python update</li>
<li>Boost updates</li>
<li>Gtk3 updates</li>
- <li>Clang testing</li>
+ <li>clang testing</li>
<li>pkgng testing</li>
<li>testing ruby19</li>
- <li>set default fortran to lang/gcc46</li>
+ <li>setting the default fortran to lang/gcc46</li>
<li>setting apache22 as default</li>
- <li>set default LDFLAGS in CONFIGURE_ENV</li>
+ <li>setting default LDFLAGS in CONFIGURE_ENV</li>
</ul>
<p>Work continues to refine the new build master pointyhat-west. An
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@
<p>linimon is working on a set of scripts to more quickly produce
pre-configured PXEboot images for package build nodes.</p>
- <p>The update of FreeBSD_version in param.h to 1000000 proved very
+ <p>The update of __FreeBSD_version in param.h to 1000000 proved very
disruptive to the ports tree, triggering lots of bad assumption in
code that interpreted it as &os; 1. A great deal of work has
gone into identifying the instances of broken code and fixing and
@@ -417,7 +417,7 @@
immediately allocating and deallocating kernel virtual memory. This
results in a gain in terms of performances (there is a relatively
high cost in the approach adopted until now), and also in terms of
- reduction of fragmentation (VM system uses a first-fit policy of
+ reduction of fragmentation (the VM system uses a first-fit policy of
allocation so there is room for improvements).</p>
</body>
</project>
@@ -570,14 +570,14 @@
PACKETpro family of embedded processors.</p>
<p>The chip includes two Power Architecture PPC465 processor cores,
- which are compliant with Book-E specification of the architecture,
+ which are compliant with the Book-E specification of the architecture,
and a number of integrated peripherals.</p>
<p>This work is extending current Book-E support in &os; towards
- PPC4xx processors variation along with device drivers for
+ PPC4xx processor variants along with device drivers for
integrated peripherials.</p>
- <p>Following drivers has been created since last report:</p>
+ <p>The following drivers has been created since the last report:</p>
<ul>
<li>Interrupt controller</li>
@@ -619,14 +619,14 @@
<body>
<p>Marvell Armada XP is a complete system-on-chip solution based on
- Sheeva embedded CPU. These devices integrate up to four ARMv6/v7
+ Sheeva embedded CPUs. These devices integrate up to four ARMv6/v7
compliant Sheeva CPU cores with shared L2 cache.</p>
<p>This work is extending &os;/arm infrastructure towards
support for recent ARM architecture variations along with a basic
set of device drivers for integrated peripherials.</p>
- <p>The following code has been implemented since last status
+ <p>The following code has been implemented since the last status
report:</p>
<ul>
@@ -672,8 +672,8 @@
</contact>
<body>
- <p>We updated existing ports to their latest versions, hunted down
- a bug in 9-CURRENT rtld which was causing GHC to crash
+ <p>We updated existing ports to their latest versions and hunted down
+ a bug in the 9-CURRENT rtld which was causing GHC to crash
intermittently. We also started work on Haskell Platform 2011.3.0.0
(development version) in a <a
href="https://github.com/freebsd-haskell/freebsd-haskell/tree/haskell-platform-2011.3.0.0";>
@@ -683,7 +683,7 @@
<help>
<task>Test GHC to work with clang/LLVM.</task>
- <task>Add an option to GHC port to be able to build it with already
+ <task>Add an option to the GHC port to be able to build it with an
already
installed GHC instead of requiring a separate GHC boostrap
tarball.</task>
@@ -718,7 +718,7 @@
not bring a new interface, but is a property of interface address.
Rewriting it in this way helps to remove several hacks from
incoming packet processing, simplifies some code, makes CARP
- addresses more sane from viewpoint of routing daemons such as
+ addresses more sane from the viewpoint of routing daemons such as
quagga/zebra and closes many CARP-related PRs in GNATS. It also
brings support for a single redundant address on the subnet, the
thing that is called "carpdev feature" in OpenBSD, long awaited in
@@ -982,8 +982,8 @@
<body>
<p>The 10th anniversary European BSD Conference was organized in
Maarssen, The Netherlands with more than 250 registered visitors.
- There were many interesting tutorials, including introduction to
- DTrace or working with Netgraph. It featured 26 high-quality talks
+ There were many interesting tutorials, including introductions to
+ DTrace and working with Netgraph. It featured 26 high-quality talks
and 2 keynote speakers on various topics related to &os;,
OpenBSD, NetBSD, or even MINIX: OpenBSD PF, NetBSD NPF, IPv6
support in &os;, virtualization in the BSD domain, recent
@@ -1024,11 +1024,11 @@
&os; Developer Summit organized as part of EuroBSDcon 2011 in
Maarssen, The Netherlands. This year EuroBSDcon organizers offered
us their generous support in handling the details, like
- registrations, renting the venue, or providing food for keeping
+ registrations, renting the venue, and providing food for keeping
attendees happy.</p>
<p>The Maarssen developer summit spanned over 3 days. It is
- generally a workshop-style event that has now adapted the layout of
+ generally a workshop-style event that has now adopted the layout of
the developer summit organized successfully in Canada earlier in
May. On the first day, there were working groups on various topics,
e.g. Capsicum, toolchain issues, ports, and documentation. On the
@@ -1129,9 +1129,9 @@
</links>
<body>
- <p>ZRouter.org is a young project that targeting to produce &os;
+ <p>ZRouter.org is a young project that aims to produce &os;
based firmware for small boxes such a SOHO router, APs, etc. At
- present time ZRouter.org able to build working firmware for:</p>
+ the present time ZRouter.org is able to build working firmware for:</p>
<ul>
<li>D-Link DAP-1350</li>
@@ -1150,7 +1150,7 @@
<p>Currently we are working on most parts of the core system but we
are also in the planning phase for implementing a simple web-based
- GUI which we hope will have taken form before next &os; status
+ GUI which we hope will have taken form before the next &os; status
report.</p>
<p>We still have many items not done, so any devices in that list
@@ -1159,7 +1159,7 @@
<p>It is easy to add new devices, because we have separate
definition of board and SoC(System on Chip), so if you have "Asus
WL-500g Premium v2" for example, you can copy D-Link/DIR-320
- directory and tweak to work for you device. We already have basic
+ directory and tweak to work for your device. We already have basic
support for:</p>
<ul>
@@ -1209,10 +1209,11 @@
</links>
<body>
- <p>Many embedded devices have Ethernet switch on board, same take a
- place on some multiports NICs, switch framework designed to give
- ability to user easily control basic futures that management
- switches have, such a VLANs, QOS, port mirroring, etc. Currently we
+ <p>Many embedded devices have an Ethernet switch on board;
+ in some ways this is similar to some multiport NICs.
+ A switch framework is designed to give users the ability to easily
+ control basic features present in managed switches, such as
+ VLANs, QoS, port mirroring, etc. Currently we are
able to control only VLANs on:</p>
<ul>
@@ -1230,7 +1231,7 @@
<help>
<task>Fix AR8216/AR8316 driver</task>
<task>Fix BCM5325 driver, not all ports pass data</task>
- <task>Add tick handler for RTL8309 to auto unisolate ports</task>
+ <task>Add tick handler for RTL8309 to automatically unisolate
ports</task>
<task>Unify MIB statistic counters access</task>
<task>Add mii read/write bus methods</task>
<task>Implement pseudo interfaces for switch PHYs</task>
@@ -1260,17 +1261,18 @@
images.</p>
<p>Providing a way to make regular build images of latest version
- from SVN. Images currently can be `dd` to USB flash (to make real
- hardware testing), VirtualBox (.vdi).</p>
+ from SVN. Images currently can be copied with
+ `dd` to USB flash (for testing on real hardware) and
+ VirtualBox (.vdi) images.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Build images with ports-set from main port-tree</task>
<task>Build images with ports-set from main port-tree plus
- overrides form area51 (Like expeerimental images)</task>
+ overrides from area51 (like experimental images)</task>
- <task>Build images with special development branches included (Like
+ <task>Build images with special development branches included (like
for testing drivers)</task>
</help>
</project>
@@ -1305,7 +1307,7 @@
<body>
<p>After a few rather quiet months, the &os; Greek Documentation
- Project is back in track, translating and improving the Handbook,
+ Project is back in action, translating and improving the Handbook,
FAQ and &os; articles. The new bsdinstall chapter has been
translated and is now present in the Handbook. Our <a
href="http://www.FreeBSDgr.org/handbook";>experimental Handbook
@@ -1401,13 +1403,13 @@
</links>
<body>
- <p>AR5416, AR9160, AR9280 functions in both station and hostap
+ <p>AR5416, AR9160, and AR9280 function in both station and hostap
mode. Performance is good.</p>
<p>Software retry of frames is implemented. Aggregation is
implemented.</p>
- <p>BAR TX is not yet handled. HT protection is not implemented, neither
+ <p>BAR TX is not yet handled. HT protection is not implemented; neither
is MIMO powersave.</p>
</body>
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