Here is some FreeBSD-related stuff that I am interested in, including projects, studies, presentations, and links.

Projects

FreeBSD support schedule

Here is a graphical representation of my own interpretation of the support schedules -- both past and the proposed future ones. (See disclaimers.) You can also see the data in tabular format.

There is also a text representation of release schedules vs. ports freezes/slushes.

architecture feature map

(Unfortunately, I have not committed the time to maintain this file recently, and it is severely out-of-date)

FreeBSD sometimes gets stuck in this discussion about 'what constitutes a Tier-1 Architecture'. Rather than working from the semantics and trying to see what fits, this chart attempts to show, graphically, which features are currently implemented in which architecture, and what their status is.

Studies

periodic reports

• Public distfiles on freefall (should be examined for stale committers)

STALE periodic reports

• New Problem Report prototype pages (currently static and generated once per day)
• Recent submitters of patches to FreeBSD, by category (generated once per day)
• Recent submitters of PR to FreeBSD, by category (generated once per day)

miscellaneous

• various dmesgs

Presentations

Presentations that I have done at past conferences, in chronological order.

Note that due to their age, some of the discussions are OBE.

• The FreeBSD Ports Monitoring System (BSDCan 2006)
• How The FreeBSD Ports Collection Works (EuroBSDCon 2006)
• Recent Updates To The FreeBSD Ports Monitoring System (BSDCan 2007)
• GNATS Problem Report Workflow (BSDCan 2007) (now OBE but some of the discussion still applies)
• The State of Packages On FreeBSD (BSDCan 2008)
• FreeBSD Bugbusting: Where We Are, Where We Ought To Be (BSDCan 2008)
• BugBusting/GNATS Birds-Of-a-Feather (BOF) session (inconclusive) (BSDCan 2008)

Links

my cobweb-filled home page

In case you're curious.