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diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/README b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/README
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/README
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/README
@@ -7,47 +7,46 @@
quarterly-submissions@FreeBSD.org
0) Timeline
+ - The months of January, April, July and October are dedicated to put
+ together the reports submitted during the precedent month. This can
+ include waiting for late submissions.
+ - portmgr@ entries default to the extended headline, because of the
+ overlap between quarterly reports and quarterly ports branches.
+ - All entries can have the deadline extended by emailing
+ quarterly-submissions@ up until the extended deadline.
+ - Quarterly status report publication is done during the same months
+ as soon as the report is ready.
- First Quarter:
- First call for reports: March 1st
- 2 weeks left reminder: March 15th
- Last reminder: March 24th
- - Standard deadline for submissions: March 31st
- - Deadline for submissions for portmgr@ and late reports
- (a heads-up is appreciated): April 8th
+ - Standard deadline: March 31st
+ - Extended deadline: April 8th
- Second Quarter:
- First call for reports: June 1st
- 2 weeks left reminder: June 15th
- Last reminder: June 24th
- - Standard deadline for submissions: June 30th
- - Deadline for submissions for portmgr@ and late reports
- (a heads-up is appreciated): July 8th
+ - Standard deadline: June 30th
+ - Extended deadline: July 8th
- Third Quarter:
- First call for reports: September 1st
- 2 weeks left reminder: September 15th
- Last reminder: September 24th
- - Standard deadline for submissions: September 30th
- - Deadline for submissions for portmgr@ and late reports
- (a heads-up is appreciated): October 8th
+ - Standard deadline: September 30th
+ - Extended deadline: October 8th
- Fourth Quarter:
- First call for reports: December 1st
- 2 weeks left reminder: December 15th
- Last reminder: December 24th
- - Standard deadline for submissions: December 31st
- - Deadline for submissions for portmgr@ and late reports
- (a heads-up is appreciated): January 8th
-
- The months of January, April, July and October are dedicated to put together
- the reports submitted during the precedent month. This can include waiting
- for late submissions.
- Quarterly status report publication is done during the same months as soon as
- it is ready.
+ - Standard deadline: December 31st
+ - Extended deadline: January 8th
1) Call for reports
- - Send reports to the freebsd-quarterly-calls@ mailing list, to all submitters
+ - Send calls to the freebsd-quarterly-calls@ mailing list, to all submitters
of last quarterly status reports (they may have updates or further
improvements), and, depending on the season:
- Various conference organizers:
@@ -78,13 +77,13 @@
https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-sample.md
- Reporting howto is at: https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/howto.html.
It contains a great deal of useful hints for the submitters on how
- to write good reports. But it also helps to forward all the completed
+ to write good reports. It also helps to forward all the completed
reports to developers for reference, and point to the latest report
in the CFR.
2) Building the report:
- - Review and merge pull requests as they are coming in.
- - Review and merge reports submitted via email.
+ - Review and merge pull requests as well as those submitted via email, as
+ they come in.
- For each newly merged report, add its filename to the local Makefile: put it
in the variable corresponding to the section where you want the report to
appear. Sort the variables content as you want to sort the reports in the
@@ -92,7 +91,7 @@
- While the reports are being updated, other doc-committers (wblock,
pluknet, and bjk, for example) may review the individual entries and
propose fixes.
- - Write an introduction in a file named intro.md in the quarter directory.
+ - Write an introduction in a file named intro.md in the quarterly directory.
It should be usually the last step in the process; a good introduction
can be only written once all the reports have been collected.
- theraven may be poked for composing a nice introduction for the reports.
@@ -102,7 +101,7 @@
- Run "make" or "make all-xml" in the quarter directory. This step needs perl
as it invokes the md2docbook perl script. Warning: md2docbook lacks some
features and likely has some bugs. Do not waste your time working on it and
- prefer manual solutions instead: once the conversion of the FreeBSD website
+ use manual editing instead: once the conversion of the FreeBSD website
to Hugo/AsciiDoctor is finished the md2docbook script will become obsolete.
- Copy the generated DocBook draft to
en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-XXXX-YY-XXXX-ZZ.xml,
@@ -119,31 +118,32 @@
- Files to edit and commit:
- In doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/ :
- The quarterly report itself:
- report-yyyy-mm-yyyy-mm.xml
+ The quarterly report itself:
+ doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-yyyy-mm-yyyy-mm.xml
- Update the next due date on the status report page and
- add a link to the new report below that:
- status.xml
+ Update the next due date on the status report page and
+ add a link to the new report below that:
+ doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/status.xml
- In doc/share/xml/ :
- The news entry for the main website page:
- news.xml
+ The news entry for the main website page:
+ doc/share/xml/news.xml
- Sample:
+ Sample for the news entry (may need to add month):
+ <day>
+ <name>15</name>
<event>
<title>June-October 2006 Status Report</title>
- <p>The <a
- href="&enbase;/news/status/report-2006-06-2006-10.html">June to October 2006 Status Report</a>
- is now available with 49 entries.</p>
- </event>
+ <p>The <a
+ href="&enbase;/news/status/report-2006-06-2006-10.html">October to December 2020 Status Report</a>
+ is now available with 49 entries.</p>
+ </event>
+ </day>
- After the html version of the report has been built and is online, run
in the quarter directory "make all-txt" and prettify its output. This step
- needs that you have installed www/lynx and lang/perl5.30 (or other version)
- on your system.
+ requires that you have installed www/lynx and lang/perl5.30 (or newer= on
+ your system.
lynx defaults to a width of 80 and will forcibly wrap URLs to fit
within that size. The prettification process includes undoing that

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