From wblock@wonkity.com Sun Jan 31 10:51:19 2016 Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2016 10:51:13 -0500 From: Warren Block To: Benjamin Kaduk Cc: monthly@freebsd.org Subject: Re: draft 2015Q4 intro On Thu, 28 Jan 2016, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: > Hi all, > > Any comments on the following draft introduction? A quick pass below. Nothing major. > The fourth quarter of 2015, from October to December, saw a great deal > of activity for &os;; this is now the third quarter running for which > I can say that this is the largest report yet published! Many thanks > to the developers who proactively submitted topics and entries; it > is great to have more complete coverage of ongoing development for > the community to learn about in these reports. The fourth quarter of 2015 saw a great deal of activity for &os;. This is now the third quarter running for which I can say that this is the largest report yet published! Many thanks to the developers who proactively submitted topics and entries. It is great to have more complete coverage of ongoing development for the community to learn about in these reports. > This quarter has seen an experimental new team formed, to triage new > bugs in bugzilla, and improve the procedures and tooling for managing > bug submissions. Making more effective use of automation and tooling > can help to increase developer productivity and the quality of &os;, just > as the adoption of Jenkins and continual integration tooling is > catching regressions quickly and maintaining the high standards for > the system. An experimental new team was formed this quarter to triage newly-reported bugs and improve the procedures and tooling for managing bug submissions. Making more effective use of automation and tooling can help to increase developer productivity and the quality of &os;, just as the adoption of Jenkins and continual integration tooling catches regressions quickly and maintains the high standards for the system. > Efforts to bring our BSD high standards to new architectures > continue, with impressive work on arm64 leading to its promotion > to Tier-2 status, and a flurry of work bringing up the new RISC-V > hardware architecture. Software architecture is also under active > development, such as in the area of system startup and service > management, with a handful of potential init system replacements > under development (launchd, relaunchd, and nosh are mentioned in > this report). Architectural changes are underway that are > instigated both from academic research (multipath TCP) and from > the realities of industry (sendfile(2) improvements); &os; > provides an excellent platform where contributions from both research > and industry are encouraged. Efforts to bring our BSD high standards to new architectures continue, with impressive work on arm64 leading to its promotion to Tier-2 status and a flurry of work bringing up the new RISC-V hardware architecture. Software architecture is also under active development, including system startup and service management. A handful of potential init system replacements are mentioned in this report: launchd, relaunchd, and nosh. Architectural changes originating both from academic research (multipath TCP) and from the realities of industry (sendfile(2) improvements) are under way. &os; provides a welcoming platform for contributions from both research and industry. > To all the readers, whether from academia or industry, hobbyist > or professional: I hope you are as excited as I am to read about all of > the progress and projects covered in this report, and the future > of &os;! > > —Ben Kaduk