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<a href="../../about.html">About</a> - </li> - <li> - <a href="../../features.html">Features</a> - </li> - <li> - <a href="../../applications.html">Applications</a> - </li> - <li> - <a href="../../advocacy/">Advocacy</a> - </li> - <li> - <a href="../../marketing/">Marketing</a> - </li> - <li> - <a href="../../administration.html">Administration</a> - </li> - <li> - <a href="../../news/newsflash.html">News</a> - </li> - <li> - <a href="../../events/events.html">Events</a> - </li> - <li> - <a href="../../news/press.html">Press</a> - </li> - <li> - <a href="../../multimedia/multimedia.html">Multimedia</a> - </li> - <li> - <a href="../../art.html">Artwork</a> - </li> - <li> - <a href="../../logo.html">Logo</a> - </li> - <li> - <a href="../../donations/">Donations</a> - </li> - <li> - <a href="../../copyright/">Legal Notices</a> - </li> - <li> - <a href="../../privacy.html">Privacy Policy</a> - </li> - </ul> - </div> - </div> - <div id="contentwrap"><h1>Introduction</h1><p>This Status Report covers FreeBSD related projects between April - and June 2008. During this period The FreeBSD Foundation has - released their <a href="http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/press/2008Jul-newsletter.shtml" shape="rect">July - Newsletter</a>.</p><p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! We hope you - enjoy reading.</p><hr /><h3><a href="#Google-Summer-of-Code">Google Summer of Code</a></h3><ul><li><a href="#Layer2-filtering">Layer2 filtering</a></li><li><a href="#Porting-BSD-licensed-text-processing-tools-from-OpenBSD">Porting BSD-licensed text-processing tools from - OpenBSD</a></li></ul><h3><a href="#Projects">Projects</a></h3><ul><li><a href="#Build-cluster">Build cluster</a></li><li><a href="#finstall">finstall</a></li><li><a href="#FreeBSD-Bugbusting-Team">FreeBSD Bugbusting Team</a></li><li><a href="#Graphics-support-for-the-boot-loader">Graphics support for the boot loader</a></li><li><a href="#USB">USB</a></li></ul><h3><a href="#FreeBSD-Architecture">FreeBSD Architecture</a></h3><ul><li><a href="#ARM/Marvell-port">ARM/Marvell port</a></li></ul><h3><a href="#The-Ports-Collection">The Ports Collection</a></h3><ul><li><a href="#Ports-Collection">Ports Collection</a></li><li><a href="#Qt/KDE4-Status-Report">Qt/KDE4 Status Report</a></li></ul><h3><a href="#Documentation">Documentation</a></h3><ul><li><a href="#FreeBSD-FAQ-Renovation">FreeBSD FAQ Renovation</a></li><li><a href="#The-FreeBSD-Dutch-Documentation-Project">The FreeBSD Dutch Documentation Project</a></li><li><a href="#The-FreeBSD-Hungarian-Documentation-Project">The FreeBSD Hungarian Documentation Project</a></li><li><a href="#The-FreeBSD-Spanish-Documentation-Project">The FreeBSD Spanish Documentation Project</a></li></ul><ul></ul><hr /><br /><h1><a name="Google-Summer-of-Code" href="#Google-Summer-of-Code" id="Google-Summer-of-Code">Google Summer of Code</a></h1><br /><h2><a name="Layer2-filtering" href="#Layer2-filtering" id="Layer2-filtering">Layer2 filtering</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/GlebKurtsov/Improving_layer2_filtering" title="http://wiki.freebsd.org/GlebKurtsov/Improving_layer2_filtering"></a></td><td> - URL: <a href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/GlebKurtsov/Improving_layer2_filtering" title="">http://wiki.freebsd.org/GlebKurtsov/Improving_layer2_filtering</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://blogs.freebsdish.org/gleb/" title="http://blogs.freebsdish.org/gleb/"></a></td><td> - URL: <a href="http://blogs.freebsdish.org/gleb/" title="">http://blogs.freebsdish.org/gleb/</a></td></tr></table><p> - Contact: - Gleb - - Kurtsou - <<a href="mailto:gk@FreeBSD.org">gk@FreeBSD.org</a>> - <br /> - Contact: - Andrew - - Thompson - <<a href="mailto:thompsa@FreeBSD.org">thompsa@FreeBSD.org</a>> - </p> - <p>Project aims to improve layer2 filtering in ipfw and pf. So far - following project goals are achieved: pfil framework is extended to - handle ethernet packets, ipfw layer2 filtering is greatly - simplified, added l2filter and l2tag per interface flags. Both ipfw - and pf firewalls support filtering by ethernet addresses, support - stateful filtering with ethernet addresses and firewall's lookup - tables are extended to contain ethernet addresses.</p> - <h3>Open tasks:</h3><ol><li>Implement ARP filtering options in IPFW.</li></ol><hr /><h2><a name="Porting-BSD-licensed-text-processing-tools-from-OpenBSD" href="#Porting-BSD-licensed-text-processing-tools-from-OpenBSD" id="Porting-BSD-licensed-text-processing-tools-from-OpenBSD">Porting BSD-licensed text-processing tools from - OpenBSD</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/G%C3%A1borSoC2008" title="http://wiki.freebsd.org/G%C3%A1borSoC2008">Wiki page</a></td><td> - URL: <a href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/G%C3%A1borSoC2008" title="Wiki page">http://wiki.freebsd.org/G%C3%A1borSoC2008</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://p4web.freebsd.org/@md=d&cd=//&c=Kqj@//depot/projects/soc2008/gabor_textproc/?ac=83" title="http://p4web.freebsd.org/@md=d&cd=//&c=Kqj@//depot/projects/soc2008/gabor_textproc/?ac=83">Perforce depot</a></td><td> - URL: <a href="http://p4web.freebsd.org/@md=d&cd=//&c=Kqj@//depot/projects/soc2008/gabor_textproc/?ac=83" title="Perforce depot">http://p4web.freebsd.org/@md=d&cd=//&c=Kqj@//depot/projects/soc2008/gabor_textproc/?ac=83</a></td></tr></table><p> - Contact: - Gábor - - Kövesdán - <<a href="mailto:gabor@FreeBSD.org">gabor@FreeBSD.org</a>> - </p> - <p>The grep utility is ready for a thorough test on the portbuild - cluster. It is almost compatible with GNU grep, but there are - differences in the regex handling at the level of the regex - libraries of GNU and the base system one, thus a better - compatibility is very hard to implement.</p> - - <p>Some progress has been made on diff, but some important options - are still missing. The sort utility seems to be very problematic in - the aspect of the wide character support by design, thus it was - given a lower priority.</p> - <h3>Open tasks:</h3><ol><li>Finish the incomplete options of diff and optimize it.</li><li>Investigate about the opportunities to fix sort.</li></ol><hr /><br /><h1><a name="Projects" href="#Projects" id="Projects">Projects</a></h1><br /><h2><a name="Build-cluster" href="#Build-cluster" id="Build-cluster">Build cluster</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr></table><p> - Contact: - Kris - - Kennaway - <<a href="mailto:kris@FreeBSD.org">kris@FreeBSD.org</a>> - </p> - <p>For the past couple of months I have been working on - generalizing the package build cluster to allow it to host other - batch and interactive jobs. Currently we make an inefficient use of - build machines because various projects have dedicated machines - that are either underloaded or overloaded for their particular - tasks. The goal is to provide a framework for combining all of - these machine resources into a single cluster that can be shared by - many users, reducing dead time and allowing distributed build tasks - to take advantage of extra build resources when available. - Developers will be able to obtain on-demand interactive access to a - jail running on any of the available architectures, with root - access. Similarly, batch jobs will specify their resource - requirements and be dispatched to run on a suitable machine in the - cluster. Current status: The job queue manager is working and is - now being used to map package builds to machines. Various package - build scripts have been rewritten to use it instead of the previous - build scheduler. The generic job dispatcher is being prototyped and - will be validated with several existing services such as INDEX - builds. Various support services like ZFS snapshot replication have - been written.</p> - <hr /><h2><a name="finstall" href="#finstall" id="finstall">finstall</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/finstall" title="http://wiki.freebsd.org/finstall"></a></td><td> - URL: <a href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/finstall" title="">http://wiki.freebsd.org/finstall</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.sf.net/projects/finstall" title="http://www.sf.net/projects/finstall"></a></td><td> - URL: <a href="http://www.sf.net/projects/finstall" title="">http://www.sf.net/projects/finstall</a></td></tr></table><p> - Contact: - Ivan - - Voras - <<a href="mailto:ivoras@freebsd.org">ivoras@freebsd.org</a>> - </p> - <p>Between the last report and this one, the project has yielded a - LiveCD installer for i386 containing FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. The - project was presented at BSDCan 2008. The development is - progressing slowly due to the lack of free time. I'm looking for - funding that will allow me more involvement in the project. The big - item currently in development is documentation and description of - the protocol used between the front-end and the back-end, which - will result in more robustness in the implementation and could - support third-party clients. This sub-project is near completion. - The project is currently hosted at SourceForge to allow - contribution from non-FreeBSD developers.</p> - <h3>Open tasks:</h3><ol><li>Partition editor.</li><li>Package selection.</li></ol><hr /><h2><a name="FreeBSD-Bugbusting-Team" href="#FreeBSD-Bugbusting-Team" id="FreeBSD-Bugbusting-Team">FreeBSD Bugbusting Team</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.freebsd.org/support.html#gnats" title="http://www.freebsd.org/support.html#gnats">GNATS</a></td><td> - URL: <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/support.html#gnats" title="GNATS">http://www.freebsd.org/support.html#gnats</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/BugBusting" title="http://wiki.freebsd.org/BugBusting">BugBusting</a></td><td> - URL: <a href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/BugBusting" title="BugBusting">http://wiki.freebsd.org/BugBusting</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~linimon/studies/prs/pr_manpage_index.html" title="http://people.freebsd.org/~linimon/studies/prs/pr_manpage_index.html">PRs indexed by manpage</a></td><td> - URL: <a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~linimon/studies/prs/pr_manpage_index.html" title="PRs indexed by manpage">http://people.freebsd.org/~linimon/studies/prs/pr_manpage_index.html</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~linimon/studies/prs/pr_tag_index.html" title="http://people.freebsd.org/~linimon/studies/prs/pr_tag_index.html">PRs indexed by tag</a></td><td> - URL: <a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~linimon/studies/prs/pr_tag_index.html" title="PRs indexed by tag">http://people.freebsd.org/~linimon/studies/prs/pr_tag_index.html</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~linimon/studies/prs/prs_possibly_committed.html" title="http://people.freebsd.org/~linimon/studies/prs/prs_possibly_committed.html">PRs which may have already been committed</a></td><td> - URL: <a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~linimon/studies/prs/prs_possibly_committed.html" title="PRs which may have already been committed">http://people.freebsd.org/~linimon/studies/prs/prs_possibly_committed.html</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~linimon/studies/prs/well_known_prs.html" title="http://people.freebsd.org/~linimon/studies/prs/well_known_prs.html">Well-Known PRs as determined by the bugbusting team</a></td><td> - URL: <a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~linimon/studies/prs/well_known_prs.html" title="Well-Known PRs as determined by the bugbusting team">http://people.freebsd.org/~linimon/studies/prs/well_known_prs.html</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/JeremyChadwick/Commonly_reported_issues" title="http://wiki.freebsd.org/JeremyChadwick/Commonly_reported_issues">Commonly Reported Issues</a></td><td> - URL: <a href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/JeremyChadwick/Commonly_reported_issues" title="Commonly Reported Issues">http://wiki.freebsd.org/JeremyChadwick/Commonly_reported_issues</a></td></tr></table><p> - Contact: - Ceri - - Davies - <<a href="mailto:bugmeister@">bugmeister@</a>> - <br /> - Contact: - Remko - - Lodder - <<a href="mailto:bugmeister@">bugmeister@</a>> - <br /> - Contact: - Mark - - Linimon - <<a href="mailto:bugmeister@">bugmeister@</a>> - </p> - <p>We have granted Bruce Cran (bruce@) direct access to GNATS and - Volker Werth (vwe@) has been released from mentorship. We - appreciate their help!</p> - - <p>We had a third bugathon in June, which resulted in the closing - of a number of bugs and the investigation/classification of several - others. We are still trying to find ways to get more committers - helping us with closing PRs that the team has already analyzed.</p> - - <p>We continue to make good progress in categorizing PRs as they - arrive with 'tags' that correspond to manpages. (Special thanks go - to Dylan Cochran for the help.) As a result, we now have created - some prototype reports that allow browsing the database - <url href="http://people.freebsd.org/~linimon/studies/prs/pr_manpage_index.html"> - by manpage</url>.</p> - - <p>In addition, another new report, oriented towards PR submitters, - summarizes the - <url href="http://people.freebsd.org/~linimon/studies/prs/well_known_prs.html"> - most commonly reported issues</url>. - Many of these issues persist because they are difficult to fix. - Before filing a PR, you may want to check through this list.</p> - - <p>Mark Linimon summarized the good technical suggestions from the - bugathons so far this year to the wiki. As a part of this, he - rearranged the wiki pages, so if you have not seen them for a - while, please see - <url href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/BugBusting">BugBusting</url>. - In particular, the Resources page is much more complete.</p> - - <p>Jeremy Chadwick (koitsu@) is now maintaining a - <url href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/JeremyChadwick/Commonly_reported_issues"> - page</url> - - that summarizes some of the commonly reported issues. This - complements some of the reports, above, but includes a great deal - more information, including how-tos.</p> - - <p>The overall PR count has been holding at around 5300 since the - last release.</p> - <h3>Open tasks:</h3><ol><li>Think of some way for committers to only view PRs that have - been in some way 'vetted' or 'confirmed'.</li><li>Generate more publicity for what we've already got in place, - and for what we intend to do next.</li><li>Define new categories, classifications, and states for PRs, - that will better match our workflow.</li></ol><hr /><h2><a name="Graphics-support-for-the-boot-loader" href="#Graphics-support-for-the-boot-loader" id="Graphics-support-for-the-boot-loader">Graphics support for the boot loader</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/OliverFromme/BootLoader" title="http://wiki.freebsd.org/OliverFromme/BootLoader"></a></td><td> - URL: <a href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/OliverFromme/BootLoader" title="">http://wiki.freebsd.org/OliverFromme/BootLoader</a></td></tr></table><p> - Contact: - Oliver - - Fromme - <<a href="mailto:olli@freebsd.org">olli@freebsd.org</a>> - </p> - <p>This project aims to implement graphics support for FreeBSD's - boot loader. It will replace the existing ASCII menu. (Note that - the ASCII menu will still be available when graphics mode cannot be - used, such as on serial console or on unsupported hardware.)</p> - - <p>For a more detailed description and screen shots please refer to - the project's Wiki URL above.</p> - - <p>Progress is slow (due to lack of time) but steady. The code - currently lives in the Perforce repository. I'll try to prepare a - first public CFT as soon as possible.</p> - <h3>Open tasks:</h3><ol><li>Implement a platform switch.</li><li>Implement "themes" support (in FORTH).</li><li>Documentation.</li></ol><hr /><h2><a name="USB" href="#USB" id="USB">USB</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://p4web.freebsd.org/@md=d&cd=//depot/projects/usb/src/sys/dev/usb2/&c=oDu@//depot/projects/usb/src/sys/dev/usb2/?ac=83" title="http://p4web.freebsd.org/@md=d&cd=//depot/projects/usb/src/sys/dev/usb2/&c=oDu@//depot/projects/usb/src/sys/dev/usb2/?ac=83">Current USB files</a></td><td> - URL: <a href="http://p4web.freebsd.org/@md=d&cd=//depot/projects/usb/src/sys/dev/usb2/&c=oDu@//depot/projects/usb/src/sys/dev/usb2/?ac=83" title="Current USB files">http://p4web.freebsd.org/@md=d&cd=//depot/projects/usb/src/sys/dev/usb2/&c=oDu@//depot/projects/usb/src/sys/dev/usb2/?ac=83</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://p4web.freebsd.org/@md=d&cd=//&cdf=//depot/projects/usb/src/sys/dev/usb2/core/README.TXT&c=Vfw@//depot/projects/usb/src/sys/dev/usb2/core/README.TXT?ac=64&rev1=2" title="http://p4web.freebsd.org/@md=d&cd=//&cdf=//depot/projects/usb/src/sys/dev/usb2/core/README.TXT&c=Vfw@//depot/projects/usb/src/sys/dev/usb2/core/README.TXT?ac=64&rev1=2">Current USB API README file</a></td><td> - URL: <a href="http://p4web.freebsd.org/@md=d&cd=//&cdf=//depot/projects/usb/src/sys/dev/usb2/core/README.TXT&c=Vfw@//depot/projects/usb/src/sys/dev/usb2/core/README.TXT?ac=64&rev1=2" title="Current USB API README file">http://p4web.freebsd.org/@md=d&cd=//&cdf=//depot/projects/usb/src/sys/dev/usb2/core/README.TXT&c=Vfw@//depot/projects/usb/src/sys/dev/usb2/core/README.TXT?ac=64&rev1=2</a></td></tr></table><p> - Contact: - Hans Petter - - Sirevaag Selasky - <<a href="mailto:hselasky@freebsd.org">hselasky@freebsd.org</a>> - </p> - <p>During the last three months there has been a number of changes. - Most notably all global USB symbols have been renamed to "usb2_" to - allow for co-existence with the old USB stack. Also there is now a - completely new and reworked UGEN driver which allows multiple - drivers to hook onto the same USB device. No more need to unload - any kernel drivers. For example it is now possible to have a - userland Mouse driver stealing half of the mouse events at the same - time "ums" is loaded. The only disadvantage is that your mouse - cursor will move slower on the screen. This is maybe not the most - common use-case, but it illustrates that kernel USB drivers are no - longer locking out other USB userland drivers. A new userland - libusb is in the works for FreeBSD. The USB stack now also has - support for independent USB BUS, USB Device, and USB Interface - permissions. That means you can more easily give USB permissions to - USB device drivers at either USB BUS, USB Device or USB Interface - level. All USB modules have now been grouped into functional - categories: usb2_bluetooth, usb2_ndis, usb2_controller, usb2_quirk, - usb2_core, usb2_serial, usb2_ethernet, usb2_sound, usb2_image, - usb2_storage, usb2_input, usb2_template, usb2_misc, and - usb2_wlan.</p> - - <p>Ideas and comments with regard to the new USB API are welcome - on the <a href="http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-usb" shape="rect"> - FreeBSD-USB Mailing List</a>.</p> - <hr /><br /><h1><a name="FreeBSD-Architecture" href="#FreeBSD-Architecture" id="FreeBSD-Architecture">FreeBSD Architecture</a></h1><br /><h2><a name="ARM/Marvell-port" href="#ARM/Marvell-port" id="ARM/Marvell-port">ARM/Marvell port</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://p4web.freebsd.org/@md=d&cd=//depot/projects/arm/src/sys/arm/orion/&c=0h4@//depot/projects/arm/src/sys/arm/orion/?ac=83" title="http://p4web.freebsd.org/@md=d&cd=//depot/projects/arm/src/sys/arm/orion/&c=0h4@//depot/projects/arm/src/sys/arm/orion/?ac=83">Orion in Perforce</a></td><td> - URL: <a href="http://p4web.freebsd.org/@md=d&cd=//depot/projects/arm/src/sys/arm/orion/&c=0h4@//depot/projects/arm/src/sys/arm/orion/?ac=83" title="Orion in Perforce">http://p4web.freebsd.org/@md=d&cd=//depot/projects/arm/src/sys/arm/orion/&c=0h4@//depot/projects/arm/src/sys/arm/orion/?ac=83</a></td></tr></table><p> - Contact: - Rafal - - Jaworowski - <<a href="mailto:raj@semihalf.com">raj@semihalf.com</a>> - <br /> - Contact: - Bartlomiej - - Sieka - <<a href="mailto:tur@semihalf.com">tur@semihalf.com</a>> - </p> - <p>After the last couple of months of intensive development going - on towards FreeBSD support for Marvell System-on-Chip devices, we - have FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT running on the following systems:</p> - <ul> - <li>Orion (already available in Perforce):</li> - <ul> - <li>88F5281</li> - <li>88F5181</li> - <li>88F5182</li> - </ul> - <li>Kirkwood - 88F6281</li> - <li>Discovery - MV78100</li> - </ul> - <p>The above families of SOCs are built around CPU - cores compliant with ARMv5TE instruction set architecture - definition. They share a number of integrated peripherals, for most - of which we already have operational and stable drivers:</p> - <ul> - <li>UART</li> - <li>EHCI USB 2.0</li> - <li>Ethernet</li> - <li>IDMA (general purpose DMA engine)</li> - <li>XOR</li> - <li>TWSI (I2C)</li> - <li>Timers, watchdog, RTC</li> - <li>GPIO</li> - <li>Interrupt controller</li> - <li>L1, L2 cache</li> - </ul> - <p>High level functional summary:</p> - <ul> - <li>Production Quality</li> - <li>Error-free Operation</li> - <li>Multiuser</li> - <li>Self-hosted kernel/world builds</li> - <li>NFS- or USB-mounted root filesystem</li> - </ul> - <p>The code is partially available (Orion in Perforce), other - variants will also be integrated with Perforce/SVN soon.</p> - <h3>Open tasks:</h3><ol><li>Drivers that are In-progress: PCI and PCIE.</li></ol><hr /><br /><h1><a name="The-Ports-Collection" href="#The-Ports-Collection" id="The-Ports-Collection">The Ports Collection</a></h1><br /><h2><a name="Ports-Collection" href="#Ports-Collection" id="Ports-Collection">Ports Collection</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.freebsd.org/ports/" title="http://www.freebsd.org/ports/">The FreeBSD Ports Collection</a></td><td> - URL: <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/ports/" title="The FreeBSD Ports Collection">http://www.freebsd.org/ports/</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing-ports/" title="http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing-ports/">Contributing to the FreeBSD Ports Collection</a></td><td> - URL: <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing-ports/" title="Contributing to the FreeBSD Ports Collection">http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing-ports/</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~fenner/portsurvey/" title="http://people.freebsd.org/~fenner/portsurvey/">FreeBSD ports unfetchable distfile survey (Bill Fenner's report)</a></td><td> - URL: <a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~fenner/portsurvey/" title="FreeBSD ports unfetchable distfile survey (Bill Fenner's report)">http://people.freebsd.org/~fenner/portsurvey/</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://portsmon.FreeBSD.org/index.html" title="http://portsmon.FreeBSD.org/index.html">FreeBSD ports monitoring system</a></td><td> - URL: <a href="http://portsmon.FreeBSD.org/index.html" title="FreeBSD ports monitoring system">http://portsmon.FreeBSD.org/index.html</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.freebsd.org/portmgr/index.html" title="http://www.freebsd.org/portmgr/index.html">The FreeBSD Ports Management Team</a></td><td> - URL: <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/portmgr/index.html" title="The FreeBSD Ports Management Team">http://www.freebsd.org/portmgr/index.html</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://tinderbox.marcuscom.com" title="http://tinderbox.marcuscom.com">marcuscom Tinderbox</a></td><td> - URL: <a href="http://tinderbox.marcuscom.com" title="marcuscom Tinderbox">http://tinderbox.marcuscom.com</a></td></tr></table><p> - Contact: - Mark - - Linimon - <<a href="mailto:linimon@FreeBSD.org">linimon@FreeBSD.org</a>> - </p> - <p>The ports count has jumped to over 19,000. The PR count has been - holding steady at around 900.</p> - - <p>KDE has been updated to 4.1. Special thanks go to Martin Wilke - for a great deal of pre-testing.</p> - - <p>GNOME has been updated three times, first to 2.22.1 and then to - 2.22.2 and 2.22.3.</p> - - <p>Other notable updates are automake, gettext, libtool, and - m4.</p> - - <p>Florent Thoumie has been working on some updates to the pkg_* - tools.</p> - - <p>Ion-Mihai Tetcu has set up a tinderbox with several purposes: - first, to quickly try to build packages as changes are committed; - secondly, to build them with a non-standard set of environment - variables; and thirdly, to build older packages with the non- - standard set of environment variables. As a result of all this - work, and work by various committers, we are much closer to - building packages corrected in the NOPORTDOCS case.</p> - - <p>Kris Kennaway has done a substantial rewrite of the package - building tools, including moving as a default to ZFS, which allows - quick cloning of src and ports directories. It is now much easier - to manage and monitor the builds. Work on this is continuing. See - the commits to - <url href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/Tools/portbuild/scripts/"> - Tools/portbuild/scripts</url> - - for more information. (Work is ongoing to update the Package - Building article.) Related work has involved cleaning up some of - the ports infrastructure; in particular, the INDEX builds are now - much faster.</p> - - <p>We have been able to do many -exp runs since the last report, - including those for bsd.cmake.mk, autotools update, CC environment - passing, the KDE 4.1 pre-integration and post-integration checks, - lockmgr changes, tty changes, and others.</p> - - <p>Although a number of PRs have been closed, we are still at 57 - portmgr PRs, the same as the last report.</p> - - <p>The following large changes are in the pipeline: - <ul> - <li>Introduction of Perl 5.10</li> - </ul> - </p> - - <p>We are currently building packages for amd64-6, amd64-7, - amd64-8, i386-6, i386-7, i386-8, sparc64-6, and sparc64-7. RELENG_5 - has reached the end of its supported life.</p> - - <p>We have added 4 new committers since the last report.</p> - <h3>Open tasks:</h3><ol><li>Most of the remaining ports PRs are "existing port/PR - assigned to committer". Although the maintainer-timeout policy is - helping to keep the backlog down, we are going to need to do more - to get the ports in the shape they really need to be in.</li><li>Although we have added many maintainers, we still have over - 4,000 unmaintained ports (see, for instance, the list on portsmon). - We are always looking for dedicated volunteers to adopt at least a - few unmaintained ports. As well, the packages on amd64 and sparc64 - lag behind i386, and we need more testers for those.</li></ol><hr /><h2><a name="Qt/KDE4-Status-Report" href="#Qt/KDE4-Status-Report" id="Qt/KDE4-Status-Report">Qt/KDE4 Status Report</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://freebsd.kde.org" title="http://freebsd.kde.org"></a></td><td> - URL: <a href="http://freebsd.kde.org" title="">http://freebsd.kde.org</a></td></tr></table><p> - Contact: - Martin - - Wilke - <<a href="mailto:miwi@FreeBSD.org">miwi@FreeBSD.org</a>> - <br /> - Contact: - FreeBSD KDE Team - <<a href="mailto:kde@FreeBSD.org">kde@FreeBSD.org</a>> - </p> - <p>Qt4 has been updated to 4.4.1 in our test repository. We ran - into some runtime problems with Qt 4.4.0, so it was never committed - it to the ports tree. Most of the problems have been fixed in 4.4.1 - and we plan to commit it in a few days.</p> - - <p>At the moment, the KDE 4.1 ports are ready for testing before - they are committed to the FreeBSD ports tree. We have already had - the first Call for Public Testing on July 17th, 2008 with KDE 4.1 - beta2. The feedback has been positive so far. If you want to help - to test them to speed up the process, please visit the - <a href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/KDE4/install" shape="rect">Wiki page</a> - - and provide feedback.</p> - - <p>We plan to have it all committed by the middle of August.</p> - <hr /><br /><h1><a name="Documentation" href="#Documentation" id="Documentation">Documentation</a></h1><br /><h2><a name="FreeBSD-FAQ-Renovation" href="#FreeBSD-FAQ-Renovation" id="FreeBSD-FAQ-Renovation">FreeBSD FAQ Renovation</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en/books/faq/" title="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en/books/faq/"></a></td><td> - URL: <a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en/books/faq/" title="">http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en/books/faq/</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/faq-renewal" title="http://wiki.freebsd.org/faq-renewal">FreeBSD FAQ Renewal Proposal</a></td><td> - URL: <a href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/faq-renewal" title="FreeBSD FAQ Renewal Proposal">http://wiki.freebsd.org/faq-renewal</a></td></tr></table><p> - Contact: - Gábor - - Páli - <<a href="mailto:pgj@FreeBSD.org">pgj@FreeBSD.org</a>> - <br /> - Contact: - Manolis - - Kiagias - <<a href="mailto:manolis@FreeBSD.org">manolis@FreeBSD.org</a>> - </p> - <p>An extensive work on renovating the FreeBSD FAQ has been started - to support its Greek and Hungarian translations. Further - improvements and content changes are still possible, we hope other - committers will help us to keep the FAQ updated and tuned - further.</p> - - <p>We have launched a renewal proposal to collect and organize the - ideas around a more interactive, accurate, open for comments, - consistent across several views etc. FAQ document. We would like to - experiment with methods to implement the goals mentioned before, - and help is more than welcome.</p> - <h3>Open tasks:</h3><ol><li>Review the renovated FAQ.</li><li>Add more question and answers to the FAQ.</li><li>Refine the FAQ renewal proposal.</li></ol><hr /><h2><a name="The-FreeBSD-Dutch-Documentation-Project" href="#The-FreeBSD-Dutch-Documentation-Project" id="The-FreeBSD-Dutch-Documentation-Project">The FreeBSD Dutch Documentation Project</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.freebsd-nl.org" title="http://www.freebsd-nl.org">Main documentation site</a></td><td> - URL: <a href="http://www.freebsd-nl.org" title="Main documentation site">http://www.freebsd-nl.org</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.evilcoder.org/freebsd_nl/" title="http://www.evilcoder.org/freebsd_nl/">Project site</a></td><td> - URL: <a href="http://www.evilcoder.org/freebsd_nl/" title="Project site">http://www.evilcoder.org/freebsd_nl/</a></td></tr></table><p> - Contact: - Remko - - Lodder - <<a href="mailto:remko@FreeBSD.org">remko@FreeBSD.org</a>> - <br /> - Contact: - Rene - - Ladan - <<a href="mailto:r.c.ladan@gmail.com">r.c.ladan@gmail.com</a>> - </p> - <p> - <p>The FreeBSD Dutch Documentation Project is an ongoing project - to translate the FreeBSD Documentation resources to the Dutch - language.</p> - - <p>The project is currently progressing very well in translating - the FreeBSD Handbook to the Dutch language, the last chapter is - being translated by the project members.</p> - - <p>Recent achievements include the translation of the Jails - chapter, and the Virtualization chapter, as well as progression - on the Advanced Networking chapter. Rene Ladan is a keyplayer in - that region.</p> - - <p>We also started with the FAQ translation, which is another - major target which we should be reaching at some point.</p> - - <p>If you care to helpout with the translation(s) and/or want to - know something about it, please do not hesitate to contact us, we - are glad to help where possible.</p> - </p> - <h3>Open tasks:</h3><ol><li>Finish the Handbook translation.</li><li>Finish the FAQ translation.</li><li>Finish the Website translation.</li><li>Keep the projects in sync with the English version(s).</li></ol><hr /><h2><a name="The-FreeBSD-Hungarian-Documentation-Project" href="#The-FreeBSD-Hungarian-Documentation-Project" id="The-FreeBSD-Hungarian-Documentation-Project">The FreeBSD Hungarian Documentation Project</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://FreeBSD.org/hu" title="http://FreeBSD.org/hu">Hungarian Web Site for FreeBSD</a></td><td> - URL: <a href="http://FreeBSD.org/hu" title="Hungarian Web Site for FreeBSD">http://FreeBSD.org/hu</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/hu_HU.ISO8859-2/" title="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/hu_HU.ISO8859-2/">Hungarian Documentation for FreeBSD</a></td><td> - URL: <a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/hu_HU.ISO8859-2/" title="Hungarian Documentation for FreeBSD">http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/hu_HU.ISO8859-2/</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/HungarianDocumentationProject" title="http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/HungarianDocumentationProject">The FreeBSD Hungarian Documentation Project's Wiki Page</a></td><td> - URL: <a href="http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/HungarianDocumentationProject" title="The FreeBSD Hungarian Documentation Project's Wiki Page">http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/HungarianDocumentationProject</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://p4web.freebsd.org/@md=d&cd=//depot/projects/docproj_hu/&c=aXw@//depot/projects/docproj_hu/?ac=83" title="http://p4web.freebsd.org/@md=d&cd=//depot/projects/docproj_hu/&c=aXw@//depot/projects/docproj_hu/?ac=83">Perforce Depot for The FreeBSD Hungarian Documentation Project</a></td><td> - URL: <a href="http://p4web.freebsd.org/@md=d&cd=//depot/projects/docproj_hu/&c=aXw@//depot/projects/docproj_hu/?ac=83" title="Perforce Depot for The FreeBSD Hungarian Documentation Project">http://p4web.freebsd.org/@md=d&cd=//depot/projects/docproj_hu/&c=aXw@//depot/projects/docproj_hu/?ac=83</a></td></tr></table><p> - Contact: - Gábor - - Kövesdán - <<a href="mailto:gabor@FreeBSD.org">gabor@FreeBSD.org</a>> - <br /> - Contact: - Gábor - - Páli - <<a href="mailto:pgj@FreeBSD.org">pgj@FreeBSD.org</a>> - </p> - <p>Hungarian translation of the - <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/doc/hu/books/handbook" shape="rect"> - FreeBSD Handbook</a> - - has been finally committed to the doc repository. The translation - of the - <em>FreeBSD FAQ</em> - - has also been started, however, the original document needed to be - brought up to date first. Two other article translations has been - added, - <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/doc/hu/articles/compiz-fusion" shape="rect"> - compiz-fusion</a> - - and - <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/doc/hu/articles/linux-users" shape="rect"> - linux-users</a>.</p> - - <p>Our Perforce depot was reorganized for the better layout, giving - newcomers more space to play. The - <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/doc/el_GR.ISO8859-7/share/tools/checkupdate/checkupdate.py" shape="rect"> - checkupdate</a> - - script written by Giorgos Keramidas, a new tool for checking - translations has been adopted to help the project's work.</p> - <h3>Open tasks:</h3><ol><li>Translate release notes for -CURRENT and 7.X.</li><li>Translate more articles.</li><li>Translate books/fdp-primer.</li></ol><hr /><h2><a name="The-FreeBSD-Spanish-Documentation-Project" href="#The-FreeBSD-Spanish-Documentation-Project" id="The-FreeBSD-Spanish-Documentation-Project">The FreeBSD Spanish Documentation Project</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://FreeBSD.org/es" title="http://FreeBSD.org/es">Spanish Web Site for FreeBSD</a></td><td> - URL: <a href="http://FreeBSD.org/es" title="Spanish Web Site for FreeBSD">http://FreeBSD.org/es</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/es_ES.ISO8859-1/" title="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/es_ES.ISO8859-1/">Spanish Documentation for FreeBSD</a></td><td> - URL: <a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/es_ES.ISO8859-1/" title="Spanish Documentation for FreeBSD">http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/es_ES.ISO8859-1/</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/SpanishDocumentationProject" title="http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/SpanishDocumentationProject">The FreeBSD Spanish Documentation Project's Wiki Page</a></td><td> - URL: <a href="http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/SpanishDocumentationProject" title="The FreeBSD Spanish Documentation Project's Wiki Page">http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/SpanishDocumentationProject</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://p4web.freebsd.org/@md=d&cd=//depot/projects/docproj_es/&c=S1s@//depot/projects/docproj_es/?ac=83" title="http://p4web.freebsd.org/@md=d&cd=//depot/projects/docproj_es/&c=S1s@//depot/projects/docproj_es/?ac=83">Perforce Depot for The FreeBSD Spanish Documentation Project</a></td><td> - URL: <a href="http://p4web.freebsd.org/@md=d&cd=//depot/projects/docproj_es/&c=S1s@//depot/projects/docproj_es/?ac=83" title="Perforce Depot for The FreeBSD Spanish Documentation Project">http://p4web.freebsd.org/@md=d&cd=//depot/projects/docproj_es/&c=S1s@//depot/projects/docproj_es/?ac=83</a></td></tr></table><p> - Contact: - José Vicente - - Carrasco Vayá - <<a href="mailto:carvay@FreeBSD.org">carvay@FreeBSD.org</a>> - <br /> - Contact: - Gábor - - Kövesdán - <<a href="mailto:gabor@FreeBSD.org">gabor@FreeBSD.org</a>> - </p> - <p>We have not made any significant progress in this period. We - definitely need more active translators to progress with the - translation project.</p> - <h3>Open tasks:</h3><ol><li>Complete renovation of the Spanish web site.</li><li>Update Handbook translation.</li><li>Translate release notes for -CURRENT and 7.X.</li></ol><hr /><a href="../news.html">News Home</a> | <a href="status.html">Status Home</a></div> - <br class="clearboth" /> - </div> - <div id="footer"> - <span><a href="../../search/index-site.html">Site Map</a> | - <a href="../../copyright/">Legal Notices</a> | © 1995–2021 The FreeBSD Project. - All rights reserved.</span> - <br /> - </div> - </div> - </div> - </body> -</html> |