svn commit: r47988 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Sat Jan 9 23:34:52 UTC 2016

Author: bjk
Date: Sat Jan  9 23:34:50 2016
New Revision: 47988
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/47988

Log:
  Add entry on IPv6 promotion for upstream distfiles from Torsten Zuehlsdorff

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml	Sat Jan  9 23:13:01 2016	(r47987)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml	Sat Jan  9 23:34:50 2016	(r47988)
@@ -1460,4 +1460,43 @@
       </task>
     </help>
   </project>
+
+  <project cat='ports'>
+    <title>IPv6 Promotion Campaign</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Torsten</given>
+	  <common>Zühlsdorff</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>ports at toco-domains.de</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <links>
+      <url href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/IPv6PortsTODO" />
+    </links>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>There are more and more machines on the internet that
+	<strong>only</strong> support IPv6.  I manage some of them, and
+	was regularly hit by missing IPv6 support when building ports.</p>
+
+      <p>I did some research into the impact of missing IPv6 support
+	on the ports tree.  The results are that 10.308 of 25.522 ports
+	are not fetchable when using IPv6.  This renders — through
+	dependencies — a total of 17.715 ports unbuildable from
+	IPv6-only systems.  All you can do than is wait and hope that
+	distcache.FreeBSD.org caches the distfile.  But this will take
+	some time, which may not be a luxury available when a piece of
+	software in use is hit by a security issue.</p>
+
+      <p>Based on the research, a promotion campaign for IPv6 was
+	started.  Some volunteers will contact the relevant system
+	administrators and try to convince them to support IPv6.  This
+	will start in January 2016 and will hopefully create some progress
+	soon.</p>
+    </body>
+  </project>
 </report>
