svn commit: r49845 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Fri Jan 13 06:26:35 UTC 2017

Author: bjk
Date: Fri Jan 13 06:26:34 2017
New Revision: 49845
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/49845

Log:
  Add the core entry from matthew

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-10-2016-12.xml

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