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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
@@ -7,68 +7,68 @@
quarterly-submissions@FreeBSD.org
0) Timeline
+ - The months of January, April, July and October are dedicated to
+ putting 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
- of last quarterly status reports (they may have updates or further
- improvements), and, depending on the season:
+ - 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:
- AsiaBSDCon (secretary@asiabsdcon.org) March (First Quarter);
- BSDCan (info@bsdcan.org) May (Second Quarter);
- EuroBSDcon September - October (Third-Fourth Quarter).
- EuroBSDcon as an organization is not interested in writing reports for
- FreeBSD (at least it was not in October 2019: its reason is that the
- conference is not FreeBSD specific), so reports about this event should be
- asked to members of the FreeBSD community that attended to it;
- - Google Summer of Code students and their mentors: soc-students@ and
- soc-mentors@ (Second and Third Quarter).
- - The easiest way to send calls for quarterly status reports is to use the
- sendcalls perl script in the tools directory of the git repository. It
- can also be used through a cron job, for example:
-
- 0 0 1,15,24 3,6,9,12 * cd ~/freebsd-quarterly/tools && ./sendcalls -s 'Lorenzo Salvadore'
-
- If you are indeed using a cron job, please run it on freefall and sign it
- with your name so that it is possible to infer who has configured the cron
- job, in case something goes wrong.
+ EuroBSDcon as an organization is not interested in writing
+ reports for FreeBSD (at least it was not in October 2019:
+ its reason is that the conference is not FreeBSD specific),
+ so reports about this event should be asked of members of the
+ FreeBSD community that attended it;
+ - Google Summer of Code students and their mentors: soc-students@
+ and soc-mentors@ (Second and Third Quarter).
+ - The easiest way to send calls for quarterly status reports is to use
+ the sendcalls perl script in the tools directory of the git
+ repository. It can also be used through a cron job, for example:
+
+ 0 0 1,15,24 3,6,9,12 * cd ~/freebsd-quarterly/tools && ./sendcalls -s 'Daniel Ebdrup Jensen'
+
+ If you are indeed using a cron job, please run it on freefall and
+ sign it with your name so that it is possible to infer who has
+ configured the cronjob, in case something goes wrong.
The script automatically sends calls to freebsd-quarterly-calls@, last
quarter submitters and other recipients depending on the season.
- It may also be worth making a call for reports on the forums as was
@@ -78,38 +78,42 @@
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.
- - 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
- correpondig section.
+ - 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 corresponding section.
- 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.
+ - theraven may be poked for composing a nice introduction for the
+ reports.
wblock suggests that we ask different people to write introductions to
- add variety. Different people will bring different viewpoints and help
- keep it fresh.
- - 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
- to Hugo/AsciiDoctor is finished the md2docbook script will become obsolete.
+ add variety. Different people will bring different viewpoints and
+ help keep it fresh.
+ - 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 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,
add it to the list in en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/Makefile,
run "make", and review the generated HTML file,
en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-XXXX-YY-XXXX-ZZ.html.
- This step needs that you have installed textproc/docproj on your system.
+ This step needs that you have installed textproc/docproj on your
+ system.
- Adjust the Markdown source and regenerate until you are happy with
the result.
- Some special characters still break with that - noticed when sos@
@@ -119,46 +123,47 @@
- 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>
+ <title>October-December 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-2020-10-2020-12.html">October to December 2020 Status Report</a>
+ is now available with 42 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.
+ - 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 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
- wrapping of URLS, which is made easier by some questions that are asked you
- during "make all-txt". In some cases lynx will refuse to output
- certain Unicode characters (such as the U+0142 LATIN SMALL LETTER L
- WITH STROKE found in trasz's surname), instead using an ASCII
+ wrapping of URLS, which is made easier by some questions that are
+ asked of you during "make all-txt". In some cases lynx will refuse to
+ output certain Unicode characters (such as the U+0142 LATIN SMALL
+ LETTER L WITH STROKE found in trasz's surname), instead using an ASCII
transliteration; these should be returned to the UTF-8 form.
- Send out
To: announce@
Subject: FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report - <First> Quarter <year>
- This one must be approved, so find someone (mail postmaster) who can do
- that before starting.
+ This one must be approved, so find someone (mail postmaster) who can
+ do that before starting.
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