From 706048418141ca5381027750f2d610ba80c71ceb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Soobin Rho Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2023 23:28:19 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] status: mfsBSD building integration: initial commit doc: fix typos ('Sponsored : ' -> 'Sponsor: ') doc: add explanation on mfsBSD and the location of the project repository doc: split into 3 sentences for better flow doc: add a missing set of brackets "[]" to a link doc: add emails of mentors and change the first person (I) to the third person doc: addresse feedback from @lsalvadore on #192 doc: addresse feedback from @jehops on #192 Sponsored by: Google, Inc. (GSoC 2023) Co-authored-by: Pau Amma Signed-off-by: Soobin Rho --- .../mfsbsd-building-integration.adoc | 28 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+) create mode 100644 website/content/en/status/report-2023-04-2023-06/mfsbsd-building-integration.adoc diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2023-04-2023-06/mfsbsd-building-integration.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2023-04-2023-06/mfsbsd-building-integration.adoc new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..f5d8982cb38d --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2023-04-2023-06/mfsbsd-building-integration.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +=== Integrate mfsBSD into the release building tools + +Links: + +link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2023Projects/IntegrateMfsBSDIntoTheReleaseBuildingTools[Wiki Article] URL: link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2023Projects/IntegrateMfsBSDIntoTheReleaseBuildingTools[] + +Contact: Soobin Rho + +==== What is mfsBSD? + +"mfsBSD is a toolset to create small-sized but full-featured mfsroot based distributions of FreeBSD that store all files in memory (MFS) [Memory File System] and load from hard drive, usb storage device or optical media. +It can be used for a variety of purposes, including diskless systems, recovery partitions and remotely overwriting other operating systems." + +mailto:mm@FreeBSD.org[Martin Matuska] is both the author of the link:https://people.freebsd.org/~mm/mfsbsd/mfsbsd.pdf[mfsBSD white paper] and the maintainer of the link:https://github.com/mmatuska/mfsbsd[mfsBSD repository]. + +==== Purpose of this project + +This project creates an additional target of the weekly snapshots of -current and -stable versions of mfsBSD images in the src/release makefile. +Currently, only the release versions of mfsBSD images are produced, which means they tend to get out of sync with the tools in base. +This project aims to address that problem. + +==== Location of this project + +This project is a GSoC 2023 (Google Summer of Code) project, under mentorship from mailto:otis@FreeBSD.org[Juraj Lutter] and mailto:jrm@FreeBSD.org[Joseph Mingrone]. + +As a GSoC project, the official coding period is between May 29, 2023 and August 28, 2023. +As a humble beginner in the open-source community, the author of this project welcomes all comments / suggestions / PR's to the link:https://github.com/soobinrho/freebsd-src/tree/integrate-mfsBSD-building[project repository], which is where all the code for this project will be located for the duration of the official GSoC coding period. + +Sponsor: Google, Inc. (GSoC 2023)