svn commit: r47031 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

[Warren Block]

Author: wblock
Date: Mon Jul 20 23:33:07 2015
New Revision: 47031
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/47031

Log:
  Add an introduction and reworked header section, still commented out.

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-04-2015-06.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-04-2015-06.xml
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       list.</strong></p>
 
     <?ignore
-    <p>This report covers &os;-related projects between April and
-      June 2015.  This is the second of four reports planned for
-      2015.</p>
-
-    <p>Another productive quarter for the &os; project and community
-      has passed.  BSDCan was held in Ottawa in June, and both it and
-      the preceding Developer Summit allowed developers to plan for
-      the future and discover what others have already
-      accomplished.</p>
-
-    <p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work!</p>
-
-    <p>The deadline for submissions covering the period from July
-      to September 2015 is October 1, 2015.</p>
+    <p>The second quarter of 2015, from April to June, was another
+      period of busy activity for &os;.  This report is the largest we
+      have published so far.</p>
+
+    <p>The cluster and release engineering teams continued to improve
+      the structure that supports &os; building, maintenance, and
+      installability.  Projects ran the gamut from security and speed
+      improvements to virtualization and storage appliances.  New
+      kernel drivers and capabilities were added, while work to make
+      &os; run on various ARM architectures continued at a rapid pace.
+      The Ports Collection grew, even while adding capabilities and
+      fixing problems.  Outside projects like <tt>pkgsrc</tt> have
+      become interested in adding support.  Documentation was a major
+      focus, one that is often complimented by people new to &os;.
+      BSDCan 2015 was a great success, turning many hours of sleep
+      deprivation into an even greater amount of inspiration.</p>
+
+    <p>As always, a great deal of this activity was directly sponsored
+      by the Foundation.  The project's status as a first-class
+      operating system owes a great deal to the Foundation's past and
+      ongoing work.</p>
+
+    <p>The number and detail of these reports really gives only a tiny
+      glimpse of all that is happening.  A huge portion of &os;
+      development takes place all the time, including bug fixes,
+      feature improvements, rewrites, and imports of new code.  This
+      ongoing work is difficult, time-consuming, and, far too often,
+      unrecognized.  We should take a moment to consider and thank
+      not just the contributors listed here, but also the end users,
+      bug submitters, port maintainers, coders, security analysts,
+      infrastructure defenders, tinkerers, scientists, designers,
+      questioners, answerers, rule makers, testers, documenters,
+      sysadmins, dogmatists, iconoclasts, and crazed geniuses who make
+      &os; such an effective and useful operating system.  If you are
+      reading this, you are one of these people, too.  Thank you.</p>
+
+    <p><i>—Warren Block</i></p>
+
+    <p><hr /></p>
+
+    <p>This status report was compiled by
+      <a href="mailto:bjk at FreeBSD.org">Benjamin Kaduk</a> and
+      <a href="mailto:wblock at FreeBSD.org">Warren Block</a>.  Please
+      submit status reports for the third quarter of 2015 (July to
+      September) by October 1, 2015.</p>
     ?>
   </section>