The FreeBSD Status Reports for the Second Quarter of 2008 are now

available at:
http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2008-04-2008-06.html
For convenience I have included them below as well.
Regards,

Brad Davis
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FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report
Introduction
   This Status Report covers FreeBSD related projects between April and

   June 2008. During this period The FreeBSD Foundation has released their

   July Newsletter.
   Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! We hope you enjoy

   reading.

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Google Summer of Code
     * Layer2 filtering

     * Porting BSD-licensed text-processing tools from OpenBSD
Projects
     * Build cluster

     * finstall

     * FreeBSD Bugbusting Team

     * Graphics support for the boot loader

     * USB
FreeBSD Architecture
     * ARM/Marvell port
The Ports Collection
     * Ports Collection

     * Qt/KDE4 Status Report
Documentation
     * FreeBSD FAQ Renovation

     * The FreeBSD Dutch Documentation Project

     * The FreeBSD Hungarian Documentation Project

     * The FreeBSD Spanish Documentation Project

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ARM/Marvell port
   URL:

   http://p4web.freebsd.org/@md=d&cd=//depot/projects/arm/src/sys/arm/orio

   n/&c=0h4@//depot/projects/arm/src/sys/arm/orion/?ac=83
   Contact: Rafal Jaworowski

   Contact: Bartlomiej Sieka 
   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:

     * Orion (already available in Perforce):
     * 88F5281

     * 88F5181

     * 88F5182
     Kirkwood - 88F6281
     Discovery - MV78100
   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:

     * UART

     * EHCI USB 2.0

     * Ethernet

     * IDMA (general purpose DMA engine)

     * XOR

     * TWSI (I2C)

     * Timers, watchdog, RTC

     * GPIO

     * Interrupt controller

     * L1, L2 cache
   High level functional summary:

     * Production Quality

     * Error-free Operation

     * Multiuser

     * Self-hosted kernel/world builds

     * NFS- or USB-mounted root filesystem
   The code is partially available (Orion in Perforce), other variants

   will also be integrated with Perforce/SVN soon.
Open tasks:
    1. Drivers that are In-progress: PCI and PCIE.

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Build cluster
   Contact: Kris Kennaway 
   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.

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finstall
   URL: http://wiki.freebsd.org/finstall

   URL: http://www.sf.net/projects/finstall
   Contact: Ivan Voras 
   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.
Open tasks:
    1. Partition editor.

    2. Package selection.

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FreeBSD Bugbusting Team
   URL: http://www.freebsd.org/support.html#gnats

   URL: http://wiki.freebsd.org/BugBusting

   URL:

   http://people.freebsd.org/~linimon/studies/prs/pr_manpage_index.html

   URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~linimon/studies/prs/pr_tag_index.html

   URL:

   http://people.freebsd.org/~linimon/studies/prs/prs_possibly_committed.h

   tml

   URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~linimon/studies/prs/well_known_prs.html

   URL: http://wiki.freebsd.org/JeremyChadwick/Commonly_reported_issues
   Contact: Ceri Davies

   Contact: Remko Lodder

   Contact: Mark Linimon 
   We have granted Bruce Cran (bruce@) direct access to GNATS and Volker

   Werth (vwe@) has been released from mentorship. We appreciate their

   help!
   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.
   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 by manpage.
   In addition, another new report, oriented towards PR submitters,

   summarizes the most commonly reported issues. Many of these issues

   persist because they are difficult to fix. Before filing a PR, you may

   want to check through this list.
   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 BugBusting. In particular, the Resources page is much more

   complete.
   Jeremy Chadwick (koitsu@) is now maintaining a page 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.
   The overall PR count has been holding at around 5300 since the last

   release.
Open tasks:
    1. Think of some way for committers to only view PRs that have been in

       some way 'vetted' or 'confirmed'.

    2. Generate more publicity for what we've already got in place, and

       for what we intend to do next.

    3. Define new categories, classifications, and states for PRs, that

       will better match our workflow.

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FreeBSD FAQ Renovation
   URL: http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en/books/faq/

   URL: http://wiki.freebsd.org/faq-renewal
   Contact: Gábor Páli

   Contact: Manolis Kiagias 
   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.
   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.
Open tasks:
    1. Review the renovated FAQ.

    2. Add more question and answers to the FAQ.

    3. Refine the FAQ renewal proposal.

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Graphics support for the boot loader
   URL: http://wiki.freebsd.org/OliverFromme/BootLoader
   Contact: Oliver Fromme 
   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.)
   For a more detailed description and screen shots please refer to the

   project's Wiki URL above.
   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.
Open tasks:
    1. Implement a platform switch.

    2. Implement "themes" support (in FORTH).

    3. Documentation.

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Layer2 filtering
   URL: http://wiki.freebsd.org/GlebKurtsov/Improving_layer2_filtering

   URL: http://blogs.freebsdish.org/gleb/
   Contact: Gleb Kurtsou

   Contact: Andrew Thompson 
   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.
Open tasks:
    1. Implement ARP filtering options in IPFW.

     __________________________________________________________________
Porting BSD-licensed text-processing tools from OpenBSD
   URL: http://wiki.freebsd.org/G%C3%A1borSoC2008

   URL:

   http://p4web.freebsd.org/@md=d&cd=//&c=Kqj@//depot/projects/soc2008/gab

   or_textproc/?ac=83
   Contact: Gábor Kövesdán 
   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.
   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.
Open tasks:
    1. Finish the incomplete options of diff and optimize it.

    2. Investigate about the opportunities to fix sort.

     __________________________________________________________________
Ports Collection
   URL: http://www.freebsd.org/ports/

   URL:

   http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing-ports/

   URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~fenner/portsurvey/

   URL: http://portsmon.FreeBSD.org/index.html

   URL: http://www.freebsd.org/portmgr/index.html

   URL: http://tinderbox.marcuscom.com
   Contact: Mark Linimon 
   The ports count has jumped to over 19,000. The PR count has been

   holding steady at around 900.
   KDE has been updated to 4.1. Special thanks go to Martin Wilke for a

   great deal of pre-testing.
   GNOME has been updated three times, first to 2.22.1 and then to 2.22.2

   and 2.22.3.
   Other notable updates are automake, gettext, libtool, and m4.
   Florent Thoumie has been working on some updates to the pkg_* tools.
   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.
   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

   Tools/portbuild/scripts 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.
   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.
   Although a number of PRs have been closed, we are still at 57 portmgr

   PRs, the same as the last report.
   The following large changes are in the pipeline:

     * Introduction of Perl 5.10
   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.
   We have added 4 new committers since the last report.
Open tasks:
    1. 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.

    2. 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.

     __________________________________________________________________
Qt/KDE4 Status Report
   URL: http://freebsd.kde.org
   Contact: Martin Wilke

   Contact: FreeBSD KDE Team 
   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.
   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 Wiki page and provide feedback.
   We plan to have it all committed by the middle of August.

     __________________________________________________________________
The FreeBSD Dutch Documentation Project
   URL: http://www.freebsd-nl.org

   URL: http://www.evilcoder.org/freebsd_nl/
   Contact: Remko Lodder

   Contact: Rene Ladan 
   The FreeBSD Dutch Documentation Project is an ongoing project to

   translate the FreeBSD Documentation resources to the Dutch language.
   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.
   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.
   We also started with the FAQ translation, which is another major target

   which we should be reaching at some point.
   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.
Open tasks:
    1. Finish the Handbook translation.

    2. Finish the FAQ translation.

    3. Finish the Website translation.

    4. Keep the projects in sync with the English version(s).

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The FreeBSD Hungarian Documentation Project
   URL: http://FreeBSD.org/hu

   URL: http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/hu_HU.ISO8859-2/

   URL: http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/HungarianDocumentationProject

   URL:

   http://p4web.freebsd.org/@md=d&cd=//depot/projects/docproj_hu/&c=aXw@//

   depot/projects/docproj_hu/?ac=83
   Contact: Gábor Kövesdán

   Contact: Gábor Páli 
   Hungarian translation of the FreeBSD Handbook has been finally

   committed to the doc repository. The translation of the FreeBSD FAQ has

   also been started, however, the original document needed to be brought

   up to date first. Two other article translations has been added,

   compiz-fusion and linux-users.
   Our Perforce depot was reorganized for the better layout, giving

   newcomers more space to play. The checkupdate script written by

   Giorgos Keramidas, a new tool for checking translations has been

   adopted to help the project's work.
Open tasks:
    1. Translate release notes for -CURRENT and 7.X.

    2. Translate more articles.

    3. Translate books/fdp-primer.

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The FreeBSD Spanish Documentation Project
   URL: http://FreeBSD.org/es

   URL: http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/es_ES.ISO8859-1/

   URL: http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/SpanishDocumentationProject

   URL:

   http://p4web.freebsd.org/@md=d&cd=//depot/projects/docproj_es/&c=S1s@//

   depot/projects/docproj_es/?ac=83
   Contact: José Vicente Carrasco Vayá

   Contact: Gábor Kövesdán 
   We have not made any significant progress in this period. We definitely

   need more active translators to progress with the translation project.
Open tasks:
    1. Complete renovation of the Spanish web site.

    2. Update Handbook translation.

    3. Translate release notes for -CURRENT and 7.X.

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USB
   URL:

   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

   URL:

   http://p4web.freebsd.org/@md=d&cd=//&cdf=//depot/projects/usb/src/sys/d

   ev/usb2/core/README.TXT&c=Vfw@//depot/projects/usb/src/sys/dev/usb2/cor

   e/README.TXT?ac=64&rev1=2
   Contact: Hans Petter Sirevaag Selasky 
   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.
   Ideas and comments with regard to the new USB API are welcome on the

   FreeBSD-USB Mailing List.

     __________________________________________________________________
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