Notices by NetBSD Foundation ? (netbsd@mastodon.sdf.org), page 2

@iwein This is a hiring policy - it's part of the developer contract that all new members of the Foundation are required to sign. Foundation membership is required for commit access.

@mark This is one of the sets of rules that every person with commit access has to follow. Becoming a committer is not easy, it requires joining the Foundation and signing various contracts that place the burden of responsibility on the member. It's a fairly reasonable assumption that we should be able to trust our members, and if not they shouldn't be members.

@daniel_collin @asmodai This is one of the sets of rules that every person with commit access has to follow. Becoming a committer is not easy, it requires joining the Foundation and signing various contracts that place the burden of responsibility on the member. It's a fairly reasonable assumption that we should be able to trust our members, and if not they shouldn't be members.

New development policy: code generated by a large language model or similar technology (e.g. ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot) is presumed to be tainted (i.e. of unclear copyright, not fitting NetBSD's licensing goals) and cannot be committed to NetBSD.

https://www.NetBSD.org/developers/commit-guidelines.html

@phf just alan coopersmith, who works on x.org for oracle solaris, and has been prompt in merging BSD patches

It turns out we have been secretly maintaining X.Org over the years and nobody noticed.

(The number of not-yet-upstreamed patches in our xsrc tree is fairly huge, working on fixing that...)

@distrowatch Someone keeps a careful eye on HTTP directories, it's not announced yet 😜

@ParadeGrotesque In Germany, instead of crossing their fingers, people press their thumbs in a clenched fist. Very aggressive!

I usually try to keep you informed about interesting commits that are happening, but we're all clenching for NetBSD 10 right now...

Regardless, nat committed a new audio driver...

... for Motorola 68000 Macintoshes. enjoy!

@ParadeGrotesque Fifth time's the charm

dear santa, please bring me some new boots, a sword, some plushies, a sparcstation 20,

@rl_dane @ivan Lot of recent fixes for pkgsrc on Mac OS X 10.4 too, making it a great choice for a distraction-free artistic and programmer workstation that can do everything except the modern web.

@selea A good compiler never came!

some news!

- NetBSD 10 is waiting for OpenSSL 3. This will likely be the last breaking change we make to the BETA, and it's necessary so we can support 10 in the long term.

- For accessibility reasons, a couple of programs in base gained support for the informal no-color.org standard.

- NetBSD make (known as "bmake" elsewhere, or just "make" on FreeBSD) performance improvements! People who spend too much time compiling operating systems ( us 🤔 ) will be pleased.

Fun fact: the 2009 model of Sidekick smartphone came with NetBSD as standard.

you don't have to wear eyeliner while using one, but it helps ✨

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Seeing some confused headlines in the past week, "NetBSD adds support for Commodore Amiga"!

We added support for the amiga in 1994.
We added support for amd64 in 2004.
We added support for aarch64 in 2018 (and Apple M1 in 2021).
We improved support for X11 on the Amiga in 2021.

@straw @neko Diabetic neuropathy?