Response already committed是什么原因啊

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####<2010-3-25 下午01时37分26秒 CST> <Error> <HTTP> <cc> <ProxyServer> <[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '2' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'> <<WLS Kernel>> <> <> <1269495446550> <BEA-101020> <[weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext@889b77 - appName: 'BEAProxy4_myCluster_ProxyServer', name: 'BEAProxy4_myCluster_ProxyServer', context-path: ''] Servlet failed with Exception
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Response already committed
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletResponseImpl.objectIfCommitted(ServletResponseImpl.java:1422)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletResponseImpl.sendError(ServletResponseImpl.java:580)
at weblogic.servlet.proxy.HttpClusterServlet.service(HttpClusterServlet.java:302)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:856)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper$ServletServiceAction.run(StubSecurityHelper.java:227)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper.invokeServlet(StubSecurityHelper.java:125)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.execute(ServletStubImpl.java:283)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.execute(ServletStubImpl.java:175)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext$ServletInvocationAction.run(WebAppServletContext.java:3244)
at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(AuthenticatedSubject.java:321)
at weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAs(SecurityManager.java:121)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.securedExecute(WebAppServletContext.java:2010)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.execute(WebAppServletContext.java:1916)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletRequestImpl.run(ServletRequestImpl.java:1366)
at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:209)
at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:181)
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这是weblogic代理日志中报的错,请高手回答
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Method in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest Returns an array containing all of the Cookie objects the client sent with this request. getCookies() - Method in class javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequestWrapper The default behavior of this method is to return getCookies() on the wrapped request object. getCreationTime() - Method in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpSession Returns the time when this session was created, measured in milliseconds since midnight January 1, 1970 GMT. getDateHeader(String) - Method in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest Returns the value of the specified request header as a long value that represents a Date object. getDateHeader(String) - Method in class javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequestWrapper The default behavior of this method is to return getDateHeader(String name) on the wrapped request object. getDomain() - Method in class javax.servlet.http.Cookie Returns the domain name set for this cookie. getFilterName() - Method in interface javax.servlet.FilterConfig Returns the filter-name of this filter as defined in the deployment descriptor. getHeader(String) - Method in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest Returns the value of the specified request header as a String. getHeader(String) - Method in class javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequestWrapper The default behavior of this method is to return getHeader(String name) on the wrapped request object. getHeaderNames() - Method in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest Returns an enumeration of all the header names this request contains. getHeaderNames() - Method in class javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequestWrapper The default behavior of this method is to return getHeaderNames() on the wrapped request object. getHeaders(String) - Method in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest Returns all the values of the specified request header as an Enumeration of String objects. getHeaders(String) - Method in class javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequestWrapper The default behavior of this method is to return getHeaders(String name) on the wrapped request object. getId() - Method in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpSession Returns a string containing the unique identifier assigned to this session. getIds() - 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As of Java Servlet API 2.1 with no replacement. 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Method in interface javax.servlet.ServletConfig Returns the names of the servlet's initialization parameters as an Enumeration of String objects, or an empty Enumeration if the servlet has no initialization parameters. getInitParameterNames() - Method in interface javax.servlet.ServletContext Returns the names of the context's initialization parameters as an Enumeration of String objects, or an empty Enumeration if the context has no initialization parameters. getInitParameterNames() - Method in class javax.servlet.GenericServlet Returns the names of the servlet's initialization parameters as an Enumeration of String objects, or an empty Enumeration if the servlet has no initialization parameters. getInputStream() - Method in class javax.servlet.ServletRequestWrapper The default behavior of this method is to return getInputStream() on the wrapped request object. getInputStream() - Method in interface javax.servlet.ServletRequest Retrieves the body of the request as binary data using a ServletInputStream. getIntHeader(String) - Method in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest Returns the value of the specified request header as an int. getIntHeader(String) - Method in class javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequestWrapper The default behavior of this method is to return getIntHeader(String name) on the wrapped request object. getLastAccessedTime() - Method in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpSession Returns the last time the client sent a request associated with this session, as the number of milliseconds since midnight January 1, 1970 GMT, and marked by the time the container received the request. getLastModified(HttpServletRequest) - Method in class javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet Returns the time the HttpServletRequest object was last modified, in milliseconds since midnight January 1, 1970 GMT. getLocalAddr() - Method in class javax.servlet.ServletRequestWrapper The default behavior of this method is to return getLocalAddr() on the wrapped request object. getLocalAddr() - Method in interface javax.servlet.ServletRequest Returns the Internet Protocol (IP) address of the interface on which the request was received. getLocale() - Method in interface javax.servlet.ServletResponse Returns the locale specified for this response using the ServletResponse.setLocale(java.util.Locale) method. getLocale() - Method in class javax.servlet.ServletRequestWrapper The default behavior of this method is to return getLocale() on the wrapped request object. getLocale() - Method in interface javax.servlet.ServletRequest Returns the preferred Locale that the client will accept content in, based on the Accept-Language header. getLocale() - Method in class javax.servlet.ServletResponseWrapper The default behavior of this method is to return getLocale() on the wrapped response object. getLocales() - Method in class javax.servlet.ServletRequestWrapper The default behavior of this method is to return getLocales() on the wrapped request object. getLocales() - Method in interface javax.servlet.ServletRequest Returns an Enumeration of Locale objects indicating, in decreasing order starting with the preferred locale, the locales that are acceptable to the client based on the Accept-Language header. getLocalName() - Method in class javax.servlet.ServletRequestWrapper The default behavior of this method is to return getLocalName() on the wrapped request object. getLocalName() - Method in interface javax.servlet.ServletRequest Returns the host name of the Internet Protocol (IP) interface on which the request was received. getLocalPort() - Method in class javax.servlet.ServletRequestWrapper The default behavior of this method is to return getLocalPort() on the wrapped request object. getLocalPort() - Method in interface javax.servlet.ServletRequest Returns the Internet Protocol (IP) port number of the interface on which the request was received. getMajorVersion() - Method in interface javax.servlet.ServletContext Returns the major version of the Java Servlet API that this servlet container supports. getMaxAge() - Method in class javax.servlet.http.Cookie Returns the maximum age of the cookie, specified in seconds, By default, -1 indicating the cookie will persist until browser shutdown. getMaxInactiveInterval() - Method in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpSession Returns the maximum time interval, in seconds, that the servlet container will keep this session open between client accesses. getMethod() - Method in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest Returns the name of the HTTP method with which this request was made, for example, GET, POST, or PUT. getMethod() - Method in class javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequestWrapper The default behavior of this method is to return getMethod() on the wrapped request object. getMimeType(String) - Method in interface javax.servlet.ServletContext Returns the MIME type of the specified file, or null if the MIME type is not known. getMinorVersion() - Method in interface javax.servlet.ServletContext Returns the minor version of the Servlet API that this servlet container supports. getName() - Method in class javax.servlet.ServletContextAttributeEvent Return the name of the attribute that changed on the ServletContext. getName() - Method in class javax.servlet.ServletRequestAttributeEvent Return the name of the attribute that changed on the ServletRequest getName() - Method in class javax.servlet.http.HttpSessionBindingEvent Returns the name with which the attribute is bound to or unbound from the session. getName() - Method in class javax.servlet.http.Cookie Returns the name of the cookie. getNamedDispatcher(String) - Method in interface javax.servlet.ServletContext Returns a RequestDispatcher object that acts as a wrapper for the named servlet. getOutputStream() - Method in interface javax.servlet.ServletResponse Returns a ServletOutputStream suitable for writing binary data in the response. getOutputStream() - Method in class javax.servlet.ServletResponseWrapper The default behavior of this method is to return getOutputStream() on the wrapped response object. getParameter(String) - Method in class javax.servlet.ServletRequestWrapper The default behavior of this method is to return getParameter(String name) on the wrapped request object. getParameter(String) - Method in interface javax.servlet.ServletRequest Returns the value of a request parameter as a String, or null if the parameter does not exist. getParameterMap() - Method in class javax.servlet.ServletRequestWrapper The default behavior of this method is to return getParameterMap() on the wrapped request object. getParameterMap() - Method in interface javax.servlet.ServletRequest Returns a java.util.Map of the parameters of this request. getParameterNames() - Method in class javax.servlet.ServletRequestWrapper The default behavior of this method is to return getParameterNames() on the wrapped request object. getParameterNames() - Method in interface javax.servlet.ServletRequest Returns an Enumeration of String objects containing the names of the parameters contained in this request. getParameterValues(String) - Method in class javax.servlet.ServletRequestWrapper The default behavior of this method is to return getParameterValues(String name) on the wrapped request object. getParameterValues(String) - Method in interface javax.servlet.ServletRequest Returns an array of String objects containing all of the values the given request parameter has, or null if the parameter does not exist. getPath() - Method in class javax.servlet.http.Cookie Returns the path on the server to which the browser returns this cookie. getPathInfo() - Method in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest Returns any extra path information associated with the URL the client sent when it made this request. getPathInfo() - Method in class javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequestWrapper The default behavior of this method is to return getPathInfo() on the wrapped request object. getPathTranslated() - Method in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest Returns any extra path information after the servlet name but before the query string, and translates it to a real path. getPathTranslated() - Method in class javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequestWrapper The default behavior of this method is to return getPathTranslated() on the wrapped request object. getProtocol() - Method in class javax.servlet.ServletRequestWrapper The default behavior of this method is to return getProtocol() on the wrapped request object. getProtocol() - Method in interface javax.servlet.ServletRequest Returns the name and version of the protocol the request uses in the form protocol/majorVersion.minorVersion, for example, HTTP/1.1. getQueryString() - Method in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest Returns the query string that is contained in the request URL after the path. getQueryString() - Method in class javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequestWrapper The default behavior of this method is to return getQueryString() on the wrapped request object. getReader() - Method in class javax.servlet.ServletRequestWrapper The default behavior of this method is to return getReader() on the wrapped request object. getReader() - Method in interface javax.servlet.ServletRequest Retrieves the body of the request as character data using a BufferedReader. getRealPath(String) - Method in interface javax.servlet.ServletContext Returns a String containing the real path for a given virtual path. getRealPath(String) - Method in class javax.servlet.ServletRequestWrapper The default behavior of this method is to return getRealPath(String path) on the wrapped request object. getRealPath(String) - Method in interface javax.servlet.ServletRequest Deprecated. As of Version 2.1 of the Java Servlet API, use ServletContext.getRealPath(java.lang.String) instead. getRemoteAddr() - Method in class javax.servlet.ServletRequestWrapper The default behavior of this method is to return getRemoteAddr() on the wrapped request object. getRemoteAddr() - Method in interface javax.servlet.ServletRequest Returns the Internet Protocol (IP) address of the client or last proxy that sent the request. getRemoteHost() - Method in class javax.servlet.ServletRequestWrapper The default behavior of this method is to return getRemoteHost() on the wrapped request object. getRemoteHost() - Method in interface javax.servlet.ServletRequest Returns the fully qualified name of the client or the last proxy that sent the request. getRemotePort() - Method in class javax.servlet.ServletRequestWrapper The default behavior of this method is to return getRemotePort() on the wrapped request object. getRemotePort() - Method in interface javax.servlet.ServletRequest Returns the Internet Protocol (IP) source port of the client or last proxy that sent the request. getRemoteUser() - Method in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest Returns the login of the user making this request, if the user has been authenticated, or null if the user has not been authenticated. getRemoteUser() - Method in class javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequestWrapper The default behavior of this method is to return getRemoteUser() on the wrapped request object. getRequest() - Method in class javax.servlet.ServletRequestWrapper Return the wrapped request object. getRequestDispatcher(String) - Method in interface javax.servlet.ServletContext Returns a RequestDispatcher object that acts as a wrapper for the resource located at the given path. getRequestDispatcher(String) - Method in class javax.servlet.ServletRequestWrapper The default behavior of this method is to return getRequestDispatcher(String path) on the wrapped request object. getRequestDispatcher(String) - Method in interface javax.servlet.ServletRequest Returns a RequestDispatcher object that acts as a wrapper for the resource located at the given path. getRequestedSessionId() - Method in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest Returns the session ID specified by the client. getRequestedSessionId() - Method in class javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequestWrapper The default behavior of this method is to return getRequestedSessionId() on the wrapped request object. getRequestURI() - Method in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest Returns the part of this request's URL from the protocol name up to the query string in the first line of the HTTP request. getRequestURI() - Method in class javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequestWrapper The default behavior of this method is to return getRequestURI() on the wrapped request object. getRequestURL() - Method in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest Reconstructs the URL the client used to make the request. getRequestURL() - Method in class javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequestWrapper The default behavior of this method is to return getRequestURL() on the wrapped request object. getRequestURL(HttpServletRequest) - Static method in class javax.servlet.http.HttpUtils Deprecated. Reconstructs the URL the client used to make the request, using information in the HttpServletRequest object. getResource(String) - Method in interface javax.servlet.ServletContext Returns a URL to the resource that is mapped to a specified path. getResourceAsStream(String) - Method in interface javax.servlet.ServletContext Returns the resource located at the named path as an InputStream object. getResourcePaths(String) - Method in interface javax.servlet.ServletContext Returns a directory-like listing of all the paths to resources within the web application whose longest sub-path matches the supplied path argument. getResponse() - Method in class javax.servlet.ServletResponseWrapper Return the wrapped ServletResponse object. getRootCause() - Method in class javax.servlet.ServletException Returns the exception that caused this servlet exception. getScheme() - Method in class javax.servlet.ServletRequestWrapper The default behavior of this method is to return getScheme() on the wrapped request object. getScheme() - Method in interface javax.servlet.ServletRequest Returns the name of the scheme used to make this request, for example, http, https, or ftp. getSecure() - Method in class javax.servlet.http.Cookie Returns true if the browser is sending cookies only over a secure protocol, or false if the browser can send cookies using any protocol. getServerInfo() - Method in interface javax.servlet.ServletContext Returns the name and version of the servlet container on which the servlet is running. getServerName() - Method in class javax.servlet.ServletRequestWrapper The default behavior of this method is to return getServerName() on the wrapped request object. getServerName() - Method in interface javax.servlet.ServletRequest Returns the host name of the server to which the request was sent. getServerPort() - Method in class javax.servlet.ServletRequestWrapper The default behavior of this method is to return getServerPort() on the wrapped request object. getServerPort() - Method in interface javax.servlet.ServletRequest Returns the port number to which the request was sent. getServlet() - Method in class javax.servlet.UnavailableException Deprecated. As of Java Servlet API 2.2, with no replacement. Returns the servlet that is reporting its unavailability. getServlet(String) - Method in interface javax.servlet.ServletContext Deprecated. As of Java Servlet API 2.1, with no direct replacement. This method was originally defined to retrieve a servlet from a ServletContext. In this version, this method always returns null and remains only to preserve binary compatibility. This method will be permanently removed in a future version of the Java Servlet API. In lieu of this method, servlets can share information using the ServletContext class and can perform shared business logic by invoking methods on common non-servlet classes. getServletConfig() - Method in interface javax.servlet.Servlet Returns a ServletConfig object, which contains initialization and startup parameters for this servlet. getServletConfig() - Method in class javax.servlet.GenericServlet Returns this servlet's ServletConfig object. getServletContext() - Method in class javax.servlet.ServletRequestEvent Returns the ServletContext of this web application. getServletContext() - Method in interface javax.servlet.FilterConfig Returns a reference to the ServletContext in which the caller is executing. getServletContext() - Method in interface javax.servlet.ServletConfig Returns a reference to the ServletContext in which the caller is executing. getServletContext() - Method in class javax.servlet.ServletContextEvent Return the ServletContext that changed. getServletContext() - Method in class javax.servlet.GenericServlet Returns a reference to the ServletContext in which this servlet is running. getServletContext() - Method in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpSession Returns the ServletContext to which this session belongs. getServletContextName() - Method in interface javax.servlet.ServletContext Returns the name of this web application corresponding to this ServletContext as specified in the deployment descriptor for this web application by the display-name element. getServletInfo() - Method in interface javax.servlet.Servlet Returns information about the servlet, such as author, version, and copyright. getServletInfo() - Method in class javax.servlet.GenericServlet Returns information about the servlet, such as author, version, and copyright. getServletName() - Method in interface javax.servlet.ServletConfig Returns the name of this servlet instance. getServletName() - Method in class javax.servlet.GenericServlet Returns the name of this servlet instance. getServletNames() - Method in interface javax.servlet.ServletContext Deprecated. As of Java Servlet API 2.1, with no replacement. This method was originally defined to return an Enumeration of all the servlet names known to this context. In this version, this method always returns an empty Enumeration and remains only to preserve binary compatibility. This method will be permanently removed in a future version of the Java Servlet API. getServletPath() - Method in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest Returns the part of this request's URL that calls the servlet. getServletPath() - Method in class javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequestWrapper The default behavior of this method is to return getServletPath() on the wrapped request object. getServletRequest() - Method in class javax.servlet.ServletRequestEvent Returns the ServletRequest that is changing. getServlets() - Method in interface javax.servlet.ServletContext Deprecated. As of Java Servlet API 2.0, with no replacement. This method was originally defined to return an Enumeration of all the servlets known to this servlet context. In this version, this method always returns an empty enumeration and remains only to preserve binary compatibility. This method will be permanently removed in a future version of the Java Servlet API. getSession() - Method in class javax.servlet.http.HttpSessionEvent Return the session that changed. getSession() - Method in class javax.servlet.http.HttpSessionBindingEvent Return the session that changed. getSession() - Method in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest Returns the current session associated with this request, or if the request does not have a session, creates one. getSession() - Method in class javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequestWrapper The default behavior of this method is to return getSession() on the wrapped request object. getSession(boolean) - Method in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest Returns the current HttpSession associated with this request or, if there is no current session and create is true, returns a new session. getSession(boolean) - Method in class javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequestWrapper The default behavior of this method is to return getSession(boolean create) on the wrapped request object. getSession(String) - Method in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpSessionContext Deprecated. As of Java Servlet API 2.1 with no replacement. This method must return null and will be removed in a future version of this API. getSessionContext() - Method in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpSession Deprecated. As of Version 2.1, this method is deprecated and has no replacement. It will be removed in a future version of the Java Servlet API. getUnavailableSeconds() - Method in class javax.servlet.UnavailableException Returns the number of seconds the servlet expects to be temporarily unavailable. getUserPrincipal() - Method in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest Returns a java.security.Principal object containing the name of the current authenticated user. getUserPrincipal() - Method in class javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequestWrapper The default behavior of this method is to return getUserPrincipal() on the wrapped request object. getValue() - Method in class javax.servlet.ServletContextAttributeEvent Returns the value of the attribute that has been added, removed, or replaced. getValue() - Method in class javax.servlet.ServletRequestAttributeEvent Returns the value of the attribute that has been added, removed or replaced. getValue() - Method in class javax.servlet.http.HttpSessionBindingEvent Returns the value of the attribute that has been added, removed or replaced. getValue() - Method in class javax.servlet.http.Cookie Returns the value of the cookie. getValue(String) - Method in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpSession Deprecated. As of Version 2.2, this method is replaced by HttpSession.getAttribute(java.lang.String). getValueNames() - Method in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpSession Deprecated. As of Version 2.2, this method is replaced by HttpSession.getAttributeNames() getVersion() - Method in class javax.servlet.http.Cookie Returns the version of the protocol this cookie complies with. getWriter() - Method in interface javax.servlet.ServletResponse Returns a PrintWriter object that can send character text to the client. getWriter() - Method in class javax.servlet.ServletResponseWrapper The default behavior of this method is to return getWriter() on the wrapped response object. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- H HttpServlet - class javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet. Provides an abstract class to be subclassed to create an HTTP servlet suitable for a Web site. HttpServlet() - Constructor for class javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet Does nothing, because this is an abstract class. HttpServletRequest - interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest. Extends the ServletRequest interface to provide request information for HTTP servlets. HttpServletRequestWrapper - class javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequestWrapper. Provides a convenient implementation of the HttpServletRequest interface that can be subclassed by developers wishing to adapt the request to a Servlet. HttpServletRequestWrapper(HttpServletRequest) - Constructor for class javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequestWrapper Constructs a request object wrapping the given request. HttpServletResponse - interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse. Extends the ServletResponse interface to provide HTTP-specific functionality in sending a response. HttpServletResponseWrapper - class javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponseWrapper. Provides a convenient implementation of the HttpServletResponse interface that can be subclassed by developers wishing to adapt the response from a Servlet. HttpServletResponseWrapper(HttpServletResponse) - Constructor for class javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponseWrapper Constructs a response adaptor wrapping the given response. HttpSession - interface javax.servlet.http.HttpSession. Provides a way to identify a user across more than one page request or visit to a Web site and to store information about that user. HttpSessionActivationListener - interface javax.servlet.http.HttpSessionActivationListener. Objects that are bound to a session may listen to container events notifying them that sessions will be passivated and that session will be activated. HttpSessionAttributeListener - interface javax.servlet.http.HttpSessionAttributeListener. This listener interface can be implemented in order to get notifications of changes to the attribute lists of sessions within this web application. HttpSessionBindingEvent - class javax.servlet.http.HttpSessionBindingEvent. Events of this type are either sent to an object that implements HttpSessionBindingListener when it is bound or unbound from a session, or to a HttpSessionAttributeListener that has been configured in the deployment descriptor when any attribute is bound, unbound or replaced in a session. HttpSessionBindingEvent(HttpSession, String) - Constructor for class javax.servlet.http.HttpSessionBindingEvent Constructs an event that notifies an object that it has been bound to or unbound from a session. HttpSessionBindingEvent(HttpSession, String, Object) - Constructor for class javax.servlet.http.HttpSessionBindingEvent Constructs an event that notifies an object that it has been bound to or unbound from a session. HttpSessionBindingListener - interface javax.servlet.http.HttpSessionBindingListener. Causes an object to be notified when it is bound to or unbound from a session. HttpSessionContext - interface javax.servlet.http.HttpSessionContext. Deprecated. As of Java(tm) Servlet API 2.1 for security reasons, with no replacement. This interface will be removed in a future version of this API. HttpSessionEvent - class javax.servlet.http.HttpSessionEvent. This is the class representing event notifications for changes to sessions within a web application. HttpSessionEvent(HttpSession) - Constructor for class javax.servlet.http.HttpSessionEvent Construct a session event from the given source. HttpSessionListener - interface javax.servlet.http.HttpSessionListener. Implementations of this interface are notified of changes to the list of active sessions in a web application. HttpUtils - class javax.servlet.http.HttpUtils. Deprecated. As of Java(tm) Servlet API 2.3. These methods were only useful with the default encoding and have been moved to the request interfaces. HttpUtils() - Constructor for class javax.servlet.http.HttpUtils Deprecated. Constructs an empty HttpUtils object. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I include(ServletRequest, ServletResponse) - Method in interface javax.servlet.RequestDispatcher Includes the content of a resource (servlet, JSP page, HTML file) in the response. init() - Method in class javax.servlet.GenericServlet A convenience method which can be overridden so that there's no need to call super.init(config). init(FilterConfig) - Method in interface javax.servlet.Filter Called by the web container to indicate to a filter that it is being placed into service. init(ServletConfig) - Method in interface javax.servlet.Servlet Called by the servlet container to indicate to a servlet that the servlet is being placed into service. init(ServletConfig) - Method in class javax.servlet.GenericServlet Called by the servlet container to indicate to a servlet that the servlet is being placed into service. invalidate() - Method in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpSession Invalidates this session then unbinds any objects bound to it. isCommitted() - Method in interface javax.servlet.ServletResponse Returns a boolean indicating if the response has been committed. isCommitted() - Method in class javax.servlet.ServletResponseWrapper The default behavior of this method is to return isCommitted() on the wrapped response object. isNew() - Method in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpSession Returns true if the client does not yet know about the session or if the client chooses not to join the session. isPermanent() - Method in class javax.servlet.UnavailableException Returns a boolean indicating whether the servlet is permanently unavailable. isRequestedSessionIdFromCookie() - Method in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest Checks whether the requested session ID came in as a cookie. isRequestedSessionIdFromCookie() - Method in class javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequestWrapper The default behavior of this method is to return isRequestedSessionIdFromCookie() on the wrapped request object. isRequestedSessionIdFromUrl() - Method in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest Deprecated. As of Version 2.1 of the Java Servlet API, use HttpServletRequest.isRequestedSessionIdFromURL() instead. isRequestedSessionIdFromUrl() - Method in class javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequestWrapper The default behavior of this method is to return isRequestedSessionIdFromUrl() on the wrapped request object. isRequestedSessionIdFromURL() - Method in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest Checks whether the requested session ID came in as part of the request URL. isRequestedSessionIdFromURL() - Method in class javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequestWrapper The default behavior of this method is to return isRequestedSessionIdFromURL() on the wrapped request object. isRequestedSessionIdValid() - Method in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest Checks whether the requested session ID is still valid. isRequestedSessionIdValid() - Method in class javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequestWrapper The default behavior of this method is to return isRequestedSessionIdValid() on the wrapped request object. isSecure() - Method in class javax.servlet.ServletRequestWrapper The default behavior of this method is to return isSecure() on the wrapped request object. isSecure() - Method in interface javax.servlet.ServletRequest Returns a boolean indicating whether this request was made using a secure channel, such as HTTPS. isUserInRole(String) - Method in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest Returns a boolean indicating whether the authenticated user is included in the specified logical "role". isUserInRole(String) - Method in class javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequestWrapper The default behavior of this method is to return isUserInRole(String role) on the wrapped request object. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- J javax.servlet - package javax.servlet This chapter describes the javax.servlet package. javax.servlet.http - package javax.servlet.http This chapter describes the javax.servlet.http package. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- L log(Exception, String) - Method in interface javax.servlet.ServletContext Deprecated. As of Java Servlet API 2.1, use ServletContext.log(String message, Throwable throwable) instead. This method was originally defined to write an exception's stack trace and an explanatory error message to the servlet log file. log(String) - Method in interface javax.servlet.ServletContext Writes the specified message to a servlet log file, usually an event log. log(String) - Method in class javax.servlet.GenericServlet Writes the specified message to a servlet log file, prepended by the servlet's name. log(String, Throwable) - Method in interface javax.servlet.ServletContext Writes an explanatory message and a stack trace for a given Throwable exception to the servlet log file. log(String, Throwable) - Method in class javax.servlet.GenericServlet Writes an explanatory message and a stack trace for a given Throwable exception to the servlet log file, prepended by the servlet's name. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- P parsePostData(int, ServletInputStream) - Static method in class javax.servlet.http.HttpUtils Deprecated. Parses data from an HTML form that the client sends to the server using the HTTP POST method and the application/x-www-form-urlencoded MIME type. parseQueryString(String) - Static method in class javax.servlet.http.HttpUtils Deprecated. Parses a query string passed from the client to the server and builds a HashTable object with key-value pairs. print(boolean) - Method in class javax.servlet.ServletOutputStream Writes a boolean value to the client, with no carriage return-line feed (CRLF) character at the end. print(char) - Method in class javax.servlet.ServletOutputStream Writes a character to the client, with no carriage return-line feed (CRLF) at the end. print(double) - Method in class javax.servlet.ServletOutputStream Writes a double value to the client, with no carriage return-line feed (CRLF) at the end. print(float) - Method in class javax.servlet.ServletOutputStream Writes a float value to the client, with no carriage return-line feed (CRLF) at the end. print(int) - Method in class javax.servlet.ServletOutputStream Writes an int to the client, with no carriage return-line feed (CRLF) at the end. print(long) - Method in class javax.servlet.ServletOutputStream Writes a long value to the client, with no carriage return-line feed (CRLF) at the end. print(String) - Method in class javax.servlet.ServletOutputStream Writes a String to the client, without a carriage return-line feed (CRLF) character at the end. println() - Method in class javax.servlet.ServletOutputStream Writes a carriage return-line feed (CRLF) to the client. println(boolean) - Method in class javax.servlet.ServletOutputStream Writes a boolean value to the client, followed by a carriage return-line feed (CRLF). println(char) - Method in class javax.servlet.ServletOutputStream Writes a character to the client, followed by a carriage return-line feed (CRLF). println(double) - Method in class javax.servlet.ServletOutputStream Writes a double value to the client, followed by a carriage return-line feed (CRLF). println(float) - Method in class javax.servlet.ServletOutputStream Writes a float value to the client, followed by a carriage return-line feed (CRLF). println(int) - Method in class javax.servlet.ServletOutputStream Writes an int to the client, followed by a carriage return-line feed (CRLF) character. println(long) - Method in class javax.servlet.ServletOutputStream Writes a long value to the client, followed by a carriage return-line feed (CRLF). println(String) - Method in class javax.servlet.ServletOutputStream Writes a String to the client, followed by a carriage return-line feed (CRLF). putValue(String, Object) - Method in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpSession Deprecated. As of Version 2.2, this method is replaced by HttpSession.setAttribute(java.lang.String, java.lang.Object) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- R readLine(byte[], int, int) - Method in class javax.servlet.ServletInputStream Reads the input stream, one line at a time. removeAttribute(String) - Method in interface javax.servlet.ServletContext Removes the attribute with the given name from the servlet context. removeAttribute(String) - Method in class javax.servlet.ServletRequestWrapper The default behavior of this method is to call removeAttribute(String name) on the wrapped request object. removeAttribute(String) - Method in interface javax.servlet.ServletRequest Removes an attribute from this request. removeAttribute(String) - Method in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpSession Removes the object bound with the specified name from this session. removeValue(String) - Method in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpSession Deprecated. As of Version 2.2, this method is replaced by HttpSession.removeAttribute(java.lang.String) requestDestroyed(ServletRequestEvent) - Method in interface javax.servlet.ServletRequestListener The request is about to go out of scope of the web application. RequestDispatcher - interface javax.servlet.RequestDispatcher. Defines an object that receives requests from the client and sends them to any resource (such as a servlet, HTML file, or JSP file) on the server. requestInitialized(ServletRequestEvent) - Method in interface javax.servlet.ServletRequestListener The request is about to come into scope of the web application. reset() - Method in interface javax.servlet.ServletResponse Clears any data that exists in the buffer as well as the status code and headers. reset() - Method in class javax.servlet.ServletResponseWrapper The default behavior of this method is to call reset() on the wrapped response object. resetBuffer() - Method in interface javax.servlet.ServletResponse Clears the content of the underlying buffer in the response without clearing headers or status code. resetBuffer() - Method in class javax.servlet.ServletResponseWrapper The default behavior of this method is to call resetBuffer() on the wrapped response object. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- S SC_ACCEPTED - Static variable in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse Status code (202) indicating that a request was accepted for processing, but was not completed. SC_BAD_GATEWAY - Static variable in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse Status code (502) indicating that the HTTP server received an invalid response from a server it consulted when acting as a proxy or gateway. SC_BAD_REQUEST - Static variable in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse Status code (400) indicating the request sent by the client was syntactically incorrect. SC_CONFLICT - Static variable in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse Status code (409) indicating that the request could not be completed due to a conflict with the current state of the resource. SC_CONTINUE - Static variable in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse Status code (100) indicating the client can continue. SC_CREATED - Static variable in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse Status code (201) indicating the request succeeded and created a new resource on the server. SC_EXPECTATION_FAILED - Static variable in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse Status code (417) indicating that the server could not meet the expectation given in the Expect request header. SC_FORBIDDEN - Static variable in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse Status code (403) indicating the server understood the request but refused to fulfill it. SC_FOUND - Static variable in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse Status code (302) indicating that the resource reside temporarily under a different URI. SC_GATEWAY_TIMEOUT - Static variable in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse Status code (504) indicating that the server did not receive a timely response from the upstream server while acting as a gateway or proxy. SC_GONE - Static variable in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse Status code (410) indicating that the resource is no longer available at the server and no forwarding address is known. SC_HTTP_VERSION_NOT_SUPPORTED - Static variable in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse Status code (505) indicating that the server does not support or refuses to support the HTTP protocol version that was used in the request message. SC_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR - Static variable in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse Status code (500) indicating an error inside the HTTP server which prevented it from fulfilling the request. SC_LENGTH_REQUIRED - Static variable in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse Status code (411) indicating that the request cannot be handled without a defined Content-Length. SC_METHOD_NOT_ALLOWED - Static variable in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse Status code (405) indicating that the method specified in the Request-Line is not allowed for the resource identified by the Request-URI. SC_MOVED_PERMANENTLY - Static variable in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse Status code (301) indicating that the resource has permanently moved to a new location, and that future references should use a new URI with their requests. SC_MOVED_TEMPORARILY - Static variable in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse Status code (302) indicating that the resource has temporarily moved to another location, but that future references should still use the original URI to access the resource. SC_MULTIPLE_CHOICES - Static variable in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse Status code (300) indicating that the requested resource corresponds to any one of a set of representations, each with its own specific location. SC_NO_CONTENT - Static variable in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse Status code (204) indicating that the request succeeded but that there was no new information to return. SC_NON_AUTHORITATIVE_INFORMATION - Static variable in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse Status code (203) indicating that the meta information presented by the client did not originate from the server. SC_NOT_ACCEPTABLE - Static variable in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse Status code (406) indicating that the resource identified by the request is only capable of generating response entities which have content characteristics not acceptable according to the accept headers sent in the request. SC_NOT_FOUND - Static variable in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse Status code (404) indicating that the requested resource is not available. SC_NOT_IMPLEMENTED - Static variable in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse Status code (501) indicating the HTTP server does not support the functionality needed to fulfill the request. SC_NOT_MODIFIED - Static variable in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse Status code (304) indicating that a conditional GET operation found that the resource was available and not modified. SC_OK - Static variable in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse Status code (200) indicating the request succeeded normally. SC_PARTIAL_CONTENT - Static variable in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse Status code (206) indicating that the server has fulfilled the partial GET request for the resource. SC_PAYMENT_REQUIRED - Static variable in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse Status code (402) reserved for future use. SC_PRECONDITION_FAILED - Static variable in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse Status code (412) indicating that the precondition given in one or more of the request-header fields evaluated to false when it was tested on the server. SC_PROXY_AUTHENTICATION_REQUIRED - Static variable in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse Status code (407) indicating that the client MUST first authenticate itself with the proxy. SC_REQUEST_ENTITY_TOO_LARGE - Static variable in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse Status code (413) indicating that the server is refusing to process the request because the request entity is larger than the server is willing or able to process. SC_REQUEST_TIMEOUT - Static variable in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse Status code (408) indicating that the client did not produce a request within the time that the server was prepared to wait. SC_REQUEST_URI_TOO_LONG - Static variable in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse Status code (414) indicating that the server is refusing to service the request because the Request-URI is longer than the server is willing to interpret. SC_REQUESTED_RANGE_NOT_SATISFIABLE - Static variable in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse Status code (416) indicating that the server cannot serve the requested byte range. SC_RESET_CONTENT - Static variable in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse Status code (205) indicating that the agent SHOULD reset the document view which caused the request to be sent. SC_SEE_OTHER - Static variable in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse Status code (303) indicating that the response to the request can be found under a different URI. SC_SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE - Static variable in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse Status code (503) indicating that the HTTP server is temporarily overloaded, and unable to handle the request. SC_SWITCHING_PROTOCOLS - Static variable in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse Status code (101) indicating the server is switching protocols according to Upgrade header. SC_TEMPORARY_REDIRECT - Static variable in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse Status code (307) indicating that the requested resource resides temporarily under a different URI. SC_UNAUTHORIZED - Static variable in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse Status code (401) indicating that the request requires HTTP authentication. SC_UNSUPPORTED_MEDIA_TYPE - Static variable in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse Status code (415) indicating that the server is refusing to service the request because the entity of the request is in a format not supported by the requested resource for the requested method. SC_USE_PROXY - Static variable in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse Status code (305) indicating that the requested resource MUST be accessed through the proxy given by the Location field. sendError(int) - Method in class javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponseWrapper The default behavior of this method is to call sendError(int sc) on the wrapped response object. sendError(int) - Method in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse Sends an error response to the client using the specified status code and clearing the buffer. sendError(int, String) - Method in class javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponseWrapper The default behavior of this method is to call sendError(int sc, String msg) on the wrapped response object. sendError(int, String) - Method in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse Sends an error response to the client using the specified status. sendRedirect(String) - Method in class javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponseWrapper The default behavior of this method is to return sendRedirect(String location) on the wrapped response object. sendRedirect(String) - Method in interface javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse Sends a temporary redirect response to the client using the specified redirect location URL. service(HttpServletRequest, HttpServletResponse) - Method in class javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet Receives standard HTTP requests from the public service method and dispatches them to the doXXX methods defined in this class. service(ServletRequest, ServletResponse) - Method in interfac
A project model for the FreeBSD Project Niklas Saers Copyright © 2002-2005 Niklas Saers [ Split HTML / Single HTML ] Table of Contents Foreword 1 Overview 2 Definitions 2.1. Activity 2.2. Process 2.3. Hat 2.4. Outcome 2.5. FreeBSD 3 Organisational structure 4 Methodology model 4.1. Development model 4.2. Release branches 4.3. Model summary 5 Hats 5.1. General Hats 5.1.1. Contributor 5.1.2. Committer 5.1.3. Core Team 5.1.4. Maintainership 5.2. Official Hats 5.2.1. Documentation project manager 5.2.2. CVSup Mirror Site Coordinator 5.2.3. Internationalisation 5.2.4. Postmaster 5.2.5. Quality Assurance 5.2.6. Release Coordination 5.2.7. Public Relations & Corporate Liaison 5.2.8. Security Officer 5.2.9. Source Repository Manager 5.2.10. Election Manager 5.2.11. Web site Management 5.2.12. Ports Manager 5.2.13. Standards 5.2.14. Core Secretary 5.2.15. GNATS Administrator 5.2.16. Bugmeister 5.2.17. Donations Liaison Officer 5.2.18. Admin 5.3. Process dependent hats 5.3.1. Report originator 5.3.2. Bugbuster 5.3.3. Mentor 5.3.4. Vendor 5.3.5. Reviewers 5.3.6. CVSup Mirror Site Admin 6 Processes 6.1. Adding new and removing old committers 6.2. Adding/Removing an official CVSup Mirror 6.3. Committing code 6.4. Core election 6.5. Development of new features 6.6. Maintenance 6.7. Problem reporting 6.8. Reacting to misbehaviour 6.9. Release engineering 7 Tools 7.1. Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 7.2. CVSup 7.3. GNATS 7.4. Mailman 7.5. Perforce 7.6. Pretty Good Privacy 7.7. Secure Shell 8 Sub-projects 8.1. The Ports Subproject 8.2. The FreeBSD Documentation Project References List of Figures 3-1. The FreeBSD Project's structure 3-2. The FreeBSD Project's structure with committers in categories 4-1. Jørgenssen's model for change integration 4-2. The FreeBSD release tree 4-3. The overall development model 5-1. Overview of official hats 6-1. Process summary: adding a new committer 6-2. Process summary: removing a committer 6-3. Process summary: adding a CVSup mirror 6-4. Process summary: A committer commits code 6-5. Process summary: A contributor commits code 6-6. Process summary: Core elections 6-7. Jørgenssen's model for change integration 6-8. Process summary: problem reporting 6-9. Process summary: release engineering 8-1. Number of ports added between 1996 and 2005 Foreword Up until now, the FreeBSD project has released a number of described techniques to do different parts of work. However, a project model summarising how the project is structured is needed because of the increasing amount of project members. [1] This paper will provide such a project model and is donated to the FreeBSD Documentation project where it can evolve together with the project so that it can at any point in time reflect the way the project works. It is based on [Saers, 2003]. I would like to thank the following people for taking the time to explain things that were unclear to me and for proofreading the document. Andrey A. Chernov Bruce A. Mah Dag-Erling Smørgrav Giorgos Keramidas Ingvil Hovig Jesper Holck John Baldwin John Polstra Kirk McKusick Mark Linimon Marleen Devos Niels Jørgenssen Nik Clayton Poul-Henning Kamp Simon L. Nielsen Chapter 1 Overview A project model is a means to reduce the communications overhead in a project. As shown by [Brooks, 1995], increasing the number of project participants increases the communication in the project exponentionally. FreeBSD has during the past few year increased both its mass of active users and committers, and the communication in the project has risen accordingly. This project model will serve to reduce this overhead by providing an up-to-date description of the project. During the Core elections in 2002, Mark Murray stated “I am opposed to a long rule-book, as that satisfies lawyer-tendencies, and is counter to the technocentricity that the project so badly needs.” [FreeBSD, 2002B]. This project model is not meant to be a tool to justify creating impositions for developers, but as a tool to facilitate coordination. It is meant as a description of the project, with an overview of how the different processes are executed. It is an introduction to how the FreeBSD project works. The FreeBSD project model will be described as of July 1st, 2004. It is based on the Niels Jørgensen's paper [Jørgensen, 2001], FreeBSD's official documents, discussions on FreeBSD mailing lists and interviews with developers. After providing definitions of terms used, this document will outline the organisational structure (including role descriptions and communication lines), discuss the methodology model and after presenting the tools used for process control, it will present the defined processes. Finally it will outline major sub-projects of the FreeBSD project. [FreeBSD, 2002A, Section 1.2 and 1.3] give the vision and the architectural guidelines for the project. The vision is “To produce the best UNIX-like operating system package possible, with due respect to the original software tools ideology as well as usability, performance and stability.” The architectural guidelines help determine whether a problem that someone wants to be solved is within the scope of the project Chapter 2 Definitions 2.1. Activity An “activity” is an element of work performed during the course of a project [PMI, 2000]. It has an output and leads towards an outcome. Such an output can either be an input to another activity or a part of the process' delivery. 2.2. Process A “process” is a series of activities that lead towards a particular outcome. A process can consist of one or more sub-processes. An example of a process is software design. 2.3. Hat A “hat” is synonymous with role. A hat has certain responsibilities in a process and for the process outcome. The hat executes activities. It is well defined what issues the hat should be contacted about by the project members and people outside the project. 2.4. Outcome An “outcome” is the final output of the process. This is synonymous with deliverable, that is defined as “any measurable, tangible, verifiable outcome, result or item that must be produced to complete a project or part of a project. Often used more narrowly in reference to an external deliverable, which is a deliverable that is subject to approval by the project sponsor or customer” by [PMI, 2000]. Examples of outcomes are a piece of software, a decision made or a report written. 2.5. FreeBSD When saying “FreeBSD” we will mean the BSD derivative UNIX-like operating system FreeBSD, whereas when saying “the FreeBSD Project” we will mean the project organisation. Chapter 3 Organisational structure While no-one takes ownership of FreeBSD, the FreeBSD organisation is divided into core, committers and contributors and is part of the FreeBSD community that lives around it. Figure 3-1. The FreeBSD Project's structure Number of committers has been determined by going through CVS logs from January 1st, 2004 to December 31st, 2004 and contributors by going through the list of contributions and problem reports. The main resource in the FreeBSD community is its developers: the committers and contributors. It is with their contributions that the project can move forward. Regular developers are referred to as contributors. As by January 1st, 2003, there are an estimated 5500 contributors on the project. Committers are developers with the privilege of being able to commit changes. These are usually the most active developers who are willing to spend their time not only integrating their own code but integrating code submitted by the developers who do not have this privilege. They are also the developers who elect the core team, and they have access to closed discussions. The project can be grouped into four distinct separate parts, and most developers will focus their involvement in one part of FreeBSD. The four parts are kernel development, userland development, ports and documentation. When referring to the base system, both kernel and userland is meant. This split changes our triangle to look like this: Figure 3-2. The FreeBSD Project's structure with committers in categories Number of committers per area has been determined by going through CVS logs from January 1st, 2004 to December 31st, 2004. Note that many committers work in multiple areas, making the total number higher than the real number of committers. The total number of committers at that time was 269. Committers fall into three groups: committers who are only concerned with one area of the project (for instance file systems), committers who are involved only with one sub-project and committers who commit to different parts of the code, including sub-projects. Because some committers work on different parts, the total number in the committers section of the triangle is higher than in the above triangle. The kernel is the main building block of FreeBSD. While the userland applications are protected against faults in other userland applications, the entire system is vulnerable to errors in the kernel. This, combined with the vast amount of dependencies in the kernel and that it is not easy to see all the consequences of a kernel change, demands developers with a relative full understanding of the kernel. Multiple development efforts in the kernel also requires a closer coordination than userland applications do. The core utilities, known as userland, provide the interface that identifies FreeBSD, both user interface, shared libraries and external interfaces to connecting clients. Currently, 162 people are involved in userland development and maintenance, many being maintainers for their own part of the code. Maintainership will be discussed in the Maintainership section. Documentation is handled by The FreeBSD Documentation Project and includes all documents surrounding the FreeBSD project, including the web pages. There were during 2004 101 people making commits to the FreeBSD Documentation Project. Ports is the collection of meta-data that is needed to make software packages build correctly on FreeBSD. An example of a port is the port for the web-browser Mozilla. It contains information about where to fetch the source, what patches to apply and how, and how the package should be installed on the system. This allows automated tools to fetch, build and install the package. As of this writing, there are more than 12600 ports available. [2] , ranging from web servers to games, programming languages and most of the application types that are in use on modern computers. Ports will be discussed further in the section The Ports Subproject. Chapter 4 Methodology model 4.1. Development model There is no defined model for how people write code in FreeBSD. However, Niels Jørgenssen has suggested a model of how written code is integrated into the project. Figure 4-1. Jørgenssen's model for change integration The “development release” is the FreeBSD-CURRENT ("-CURRENT") branch and the “production release” is the FreeBSD-STABLE branch ("-STABLE") [Jørgensen, 2001]. This is a model for one change, and shows that after coding, developers seek community review and try integrating it with their own systems. After integrating the change into the development release, called FreeBSD-CURRENT, it is tested by many users and developers in the FreeBSD community. After it has gone through enough testing, it is merged into the production release, called FreeBSD-STABLE. Unless each stage is finished successfully, the developer needs to go back and make modifications in the code and restart the process. To integrate a change with either -CURRENT or -STABLE is called making a commit. Jørgensen found that most FreeBSD developers work individually, meaning that this model is used in parallel by many developers on the different ongoing development efforts. A developer can also be working on multiple changes, so that while he is waiting for review or people to test one or more of his changes, he may be writing another change. As each commit represents an increment, this is a massively incremental model. The commits are in fact so frequent that during one year [3] , 85427 commits were made, making a daily average of 233 commits. Within the “code” bracket in Jørgensen's figure, each programmer has his own working style and follows his own development models. The bracket could very well have been called “development” as it includes requirements gathering and analysis, system and detailed design, implementation and verification. However, the only output from these stages is the source code or system documentation. From a stepwise model's perspective (such as the waterfall model), the other brackets can be seen as further verification and system integration. This system integration is also important to see if a change is accepted by the community. Up until the code is committed, the developer is free to choose how much to communicate about it to the rest of the project. In order for -CURRENT to work as a buffer (so that bright ideas that had some undiscovered drawbacks can be backed out) the minimum time a commit should be in -CURRENT before merging it to -STABLE is 3 days. Such a merge is referred to as an MFC (Merge From Current). It is important to notice the word “change”. Most commits do not contain radical new features, but are maintenance updates. The only exceptions from this model are security fixes and changes to features that are deprecated in the -CURRENT branch. In these cases, changes can be committed directly to the -STABLE branch. In addition to many people working on the project, there are many related projects to the FreeBSD Project. These are either projects developing brand new features, sub-projects or projects whose outcome is incorporated into FreeBSD [4]. These projects fit into the FreeBSD Project just like regular development efforts: they produce code that is integrated with the FreeBSD Project. However, some of them (like Ports and Documentation) have the privilege of being applicable to both branches or commit directly to both -CURRENT and -STABLE. There is no standards to how design should be done, nor is design collected in a centralised repository. The main design is that of 4.4BSD. [5] As design is a part of the “Code” bracket in Jørgenssen's model, it is up to every developer or sub-project how this should be done. Even if the design should be stored in a central repository, the output from the design stages would be of limited use as the differences of methodologies would make them poorly if at all interoperable. For the overall design of the project, the project relies on the sub-projects to negotiate fit interfaces between each other rather than to dictate interfacing. 4.2. Release branches The releases of FreeBSD is best illustrated by a tree with many branches where each major branch represents a major version. Minor versions are represented by branches of the major branches. In the following release tree, arrows that follow one-another in a particular direction represent a branch. Boxes with full lines and diamonds represent official releases. Boxes with dotted lines represent the development branch at that time. Security branches are represented by ovals. Diamonds differ from boxes in that they represent a fork, meaning a place where a branch splits into two branches where one of the branches becomes a sub-branch. For example, at 4.0-RELEASE the 4.0-CURRENT branch split into 4-STABLE and 5.0-CURRENT. At 4.5-RELEASE, the branch forked off a security branch called RELENG_4_5. Figure 4-2. The FreeBSD release tree The latest -CURRENT version is always referred to as -CURRENT, while the latest -STABLE release is always referred to as -STABLE. In this figure, -STABLE refers to 4-STABLE while -CURRENT refers to 5.0-CURRENT following 5.0-RELEASE. [FreeBSD, 2002E] A “major release” is always made from the -CURRENT branch. However, the -CURRENT branch does not need to fork at that point in time, but can focus on stabilising. An example of this is that following 3.0-RELEASE, 3.1-RELEASE was also a continuation of the -CURRENT-branch, and -CURRENT did not become a true development branch until this version was released and the 3-STABLE branch was forked. When -CURRENT returns to becoming a development branch, it can only be followed by a major release. 5-STABLE is predicted to be forked off 5.0-CURRENT at around 5.3-RELEASE. It is not until 5-STABLE is forked that the development branch will be branded 6.0-CURRENT. A “minor release” is made from the -CURRENT branch following a major release, or from the -STABLE branch. Following and including, 4.3-RELEASE[6], when a minor release has been made, it becomes a “security branch”. This is meant for organisations that do not want to follow the -STABLE branch and the potential new/changed features it offers, but instead require an absolutely stable environment, only updating to implement security updates. [7] Each update to a security branch is called a “patchlevel”. For every security enhancement that is done, the patchlevel number is increased, making it easy for people tracking the branch to see what security enhancements they have implemented. In cases where there have been especially serious security flaws, an entire new release can be made from a security branch. An example of this is 4.6.2-RELEASE. 4.3. Model summary To summarise, the development model of FreeBSD can be seen as the following tree: Figure 4-3. The overall development model The tree of the FreeBSD development with ongoing development efforts and continuous integration. The tree symbolises the release versions with major versions spawning new main branches and minor versions being versions of the main branch. The top branch is the -CURRENT branch where all new development is integrated, and the -STABLE branch is the branch directly below it. Clouds of development efforts hang over the project where developers use the development models they see fit. The product of their work is then integrated into -CURRENT where it undergoes parallel debugging and is finally merged from -CURRENT into -STABLE. Security fixes are merged from -STABLE to the security branches. Chapter 5 Hats Many committers have a special area of responsibility. These roles are called hats [Losh, 2002]. These hats can be either project roles, such as public relations officer, or maintainer for a certain area of the code. Because this is a project where people give voluntarily of their spare time, people with assigned hats are not always available. They must therefore appoint a deputy that can perform the hat's role in his or her absence. The other option is to have the role held by a group. Many of these hats are not formalised. Formalised hats have a charter stating the exact purpose of the hat along with its privileges and responsibilities. The writing of such charters is a new part of the project, and has thus yet to be completed for all hats. These hat descriptions are not such a formalisation, rather a summary of the role with links to the charter where available and contact addresses, 5.1. General Hats 5.1.1. Contributor A Contributor contributes to the FreeBSD project either as a developer, as an author, by sending problem reports, or in other ways contributing to the progress of the project. A contributor has no special privileges in the FreeBSD project. [FreeBSD, 2002F] 5.1.2. Committer A person who has the required privileges to add his code or documentation to the repository. A committer has made a commit within the past 12 months. [FreeBSD, 2000A] An active committer is a committer who has made an average of one commit per month during that time. It is worth noting that there are no technical barriers to prevent someone, once having gained commit privileges to the main- or a sub-project, to make commits in parts of that project's source the committer did not specifically get permission to modify. However, when wanting to make modifications to parts a committer has not been involved in before, he/she should read the logs to see what has happened in this area before, and also read the MAINTAINER file to see if the maintainer of this part has any special requests on how changes in the code should be made 5.1.3. Core Team The core team is elected by the committers from the pool of committers and serves as the board of directors of the FreeBSD project. It promotes active contributors to committers, assigns people to well-defined hats, and is the final arbiter of decisions involving which way the project should be heading. As by July 1st, 2004, core consisted of 9 members. Elections are held every two years. 5.1.4. Maintainership Maintainership means that that person is responsible for what is allowed to go into that area of the code and has the final say should disagreements over the code occur. This involves involves proactive work aimed at stimulating contributions and reactive work in reviewing commits. With the FreeBSD source comes the MAINTAINERS file that contains a one-line summary of how each maintainer would like contributions to be made. Having this notice and contact information enables developers to focus on the development effort rather than being stuck in a slow correspondence should the maintainer be unavailable for some time. If the maintainer is unavailable for an unreasonably long period of time, and other people do a significant amount of work, maintainership may be switched without the maintainer's approval. This is based on the stance that maintainership should be demonstrated, not declared. Maintainership of a particular piece of code is a hat that is not held as a group. 5.2. Official Hats The official hats in the FreeBSD Project are hats that are more or less formalised and mainly administrative roles. They have the authority and responsibility for their area. The following illustration shows the responsibility lines. After this follows a description of each hat, including who it is held by. Figure 5-1. Overview of official hats All boxes consist of groups of committers, except for the dotted boxes where the holders are not necessarily committers. The flattened circles are sub-projects and consist of both committers and non-committers of the main project. 5.2.1. Documentation project manager The FreeBSD Documentation Project architect is responsible for defining and following up documentation goals for the committers in the Documentation project. Hat held by: The DocEng team . The DocEng Charter. 5.2.2. CVSup Mirror Site Coordinator The CVSup Mirror Site Coordinator coordinates all the CVSup Mirror Site Admins to ensure that they are distributing current versions of the software, that they have the capacity to update themselves when major updates are in progress, and making it easy for the general public to find their closest CVSup mirror. Hat currently held by: John Polstra . 5.2.3. Internationalisation The Internationalisation hat is responsible for coordinating the localisation efforts of the FreeBSD kernel and userland utilities. The translation effort are coordinated by The FreeBSD Documentation Project. The Internationalisation hat should suggest and promote standards and guidelines for writing and maintaining the software in a fashion that makes it easier to translate. Hat currently available. 5.2.4. Postmaster The Postmaster is responsible for mail being correctly delivered to the committers' email address. He is also responsible for ensuring that the mailing lists work and should take measures against possible disruptions of mail such as having troll-, spam- and virus-filters. Hat currently held by: David Wolfskill . 5.2.5. Quality Assurance The responsibilities of this role are to manage the quality assurance measures. Hat currently held by: Robert Watson . 5.2.6. Release Coordination The responsibilities of the Release Engineering Team are Setting, publishing and following a release schedule for official releases Documenting and formalising release engineering procedures Creation and maintenance of code branches Coordinating with the Ports and Documentation teams to have an updated set of packages and documentation released with the new releases Coordinating with the Security team so that pending releases are not affected by recently disclosed vulnerabilities. Further information about the development process is available in the release engineering section. Hat held by: the Release Engineering team , currently headed by Murray Stokely . The Release Engineering Charter. 5.2.7. Public Relations & Corporate Liaison The Public Relations & Corporate Liaison's responsibilities are: Making press statements when happenings that are important to the FreeBSD Project happen. Being the official contact person for corporations that are working close with the FreeBSD Project. Take steps to promote FreeBSD within both the Open Source community and the corporate world. Handle the “freebsd-advocacy” mailing list. This hat is currently not occupied. 5.2.8. Security Officer The Security Officer's main responsibility is to coordinate information exchange with others in the security community and in the FreeBSD project. The Security Officer is also responsible for taking action when security problems are reported and promoting proactive development behaviour when it comes to security. Because of the fear that information about vulnerabilities may leak out to people with malicious intent before a patch is available, only the Security Officer, consisting of an officer, a deputy and two Core team members, receive sensitive information about security issues. However, to create or implement a patch, the Security Officer has the Security Officer Team to help do the work. Hat held by: the Security Officer , currently headed by Colin Percival . The Security Officer and The Security Officer Team's charter. 5.2.9. Source Repository Manager The Source Repository Manager is the only one who is allowed to directly modify the repository without using the CVS tool. It is his/her responsibility to ensure that technical problems that arise in the repository are resolved quickly. The source repository manager has the authority to back out commits if this is necessary to resolve a CVS technical problem. Hat held by: the Source Repository Manager , currently headed by Peter Wemm . 5.2.10. Election Manager The Election Manager is responsible for the Core election process. The manager is responsible for running and maintaining the election system, and is the final authority should minor unforseen events happen in the election process. Major unforseen events have to be discussed with the Core team Hat held only during elections. 5.2.11. Web site Management The Web site Management hat is responsible for coordinating the rollout of updated web pages on mirrors around the world, for the overall structure of the primary web site and the system it is running upon. The management needs to coordinate the content with The FreeBSD Documentation Project and acts as maintainer for the “www” tree. Hat held by: the FreeBSD Webmasters . 5.2.12. Ports Manager The Ports Manager acts as a liaison between The Ports Subproject and the core project, and all requests from the project should go to the ports manager. Hat held by: the Ports Management Team , 5.2.13. Standards The Standards hat is responsible for ensuring that FreeBSD complies with the standards it is committed to , keeping up to date on the development of these standards and notifying FreeBSD developers of important changes that allows them to take a proactive role and decrease the time between a standards update and FreeBSD's compliancy. Hat currently held by: Garrett Wollman . 5.2.14. Core Secretary The Core Secretary's main responsibility is to write drafts to and publish the final Core Reports. The secretary also keeps the core agenda, thus ensuring that no balls are dropped unresolved. Hat currently held by: Joel Dahl . 5.2.15. GNATS Administrator The GNATS Administrator is responsible for ensuring that the maintenance database is in working order, that the entries are correctly categorised and that there are no invalid entries. Hat currently held by: Ceri Davies and Mark Linimon . 5.2.16. Bugmeister The Bugmeister is the person in charge of the problem report group. Hat currently held by: Ceri Davies and Mark Linimon . 5.2.17. Donations Liaison Officer The task of the donations liason officer is to match the developers with needs with people or organisations willing to make a donation. The Donations Liason Charter is available here Hat held by: the Donations Liaison Office , currently headed by Michael W. Lucas . 5.2.18. Admin (Also called “FreeBSD Cluster Admin”) The admin team consists of the people responsible for administrating the computers that the project relies on for its distributed work and communication to be synchronised. It consists mainly of those people who have physical access to the servers. Hat held by: the Admin team , currently headed by Mark Murray 5.3. Process dependent hats 5.3.1. Report originator The person originally responsible for filing a Problem Report. 5.3.2. Bugbuster A person who will either find the right person to solve the problem, or close the PR if it is a duplicate or otherwise not an interesting one. 5.3.3. Mentor A mentor is a committer who takes it upon him/her to introduce a new committer to the project, both in terms of ensuring the new committers setup is valid, that the new committer knows the available tools required in his/her work and that the new committer knows what is expected of him/her in terms of behaviour. 5.3.4. Vendor The person(s) or organisation whom external code comes from and whom patches are sent to. 5.3.5. Reviewers People on the mailing list where the request for review is posted. 5.3.6. CVSup Mirror Site Admin A CVSup Mirror Site Admin has accesses to a server that he/she uses to mirror the CVS repository. The admin works with the CVSup Mirror Site Coordinator to ensure the site remains up-to-date and is following the general policy of official mirror sites. Chapter 6 Processes The following section will describe the defined project processes. Issues that are not handled by these processes happen on an ad-hoc basis based on what has been customary to do in similar cases. 6.1. Adding new and removing old committers The Core team has the responsibility of giving and removing commit privileges to contributors. This can only be done through a vote on the core mailing list. The ports and documentation sub-projects can give commit privileges to people working on these projects, but have to date not removed such privileges. Normally a contributor is recommended to core by a committer. For contributors or outsiders to contact core asking to be a committer is not well thought of and is usually rejected. If the area of particular interest for the developer potentially overlaps with other committers' area of maintainership, the opinion of those maintainers is sought. However, it is frequently this committer that recommends the developer. When a contributor is given committer status, he is assigned a mentor. The committer who recommended the new committer will, in the general case, take it upon himself to be the new committers mentor. When a contributor is given his commit bit, a PGP-signed email is sent from either Core Secretary, Ports Manager or nik@freebsd.org to both admins@freebsd.org, the assigned mentor, the new committer and core confirming the approval of a new account. The mentor then gathers a password line, SSH 2 public key and PGP key from the new committer and sends them to Admin. When the new account is created, the mentor activates the commit bit and guides the new committer through the rest of the initial process. Figure 6-1. Process summary: adding a new committer When a contributor sends a piece of code, the receiving committer may choose to recommend that the contributor is given commit privileges. If he recommends this to core, they will vote on this recommendation. If they vote in favour, a mentor is assigned the new committer and the new committer has to email his details to the administrators for an account to be created. After this, the new committer is all set to make his first commit. By tradition, this is by adding his name to the committers list. Recall that a committer is considered to be someone who has committed code during the past 12 months. However, it is not until after 18 months of inactivity have passed that commit privileges are eligible to be revoked. [FreeBSD, 2002H] There are, however, no automatic procedures for doing this. For reactions concerning commit privileges not triggered by time, see section 1.5.8. Figure 6-2. Process summary: removing a committer When Core decides to clean up the committers list, they check who has not made a commit for the past 18 months. Committers who have not done so have their commit bits revoked. It is also possible for committers to request that their commit bit be retired if for some reason they are no longer going to be actively committing to the project. In this case, it can also be restored at a later time by core, should the committer ask. Roles in this process: Core team Contributor Committer Maintainership Mentor [FreeBSD, 2000A] [FreeBSD, 2002H] [FreeBSD, 2002I] 6.2. Adding/Removing an official CVSup Mirror A CVSup mirror is a replica of the official CVSup master that contains all the up-to-date source code for all the branches in the FreeBSD project, ports and documentation. Adding an official CVSup mirror starts with the potential CVSup Mirror Site Admin installing the “cvsup-mirror” package. Having done this and updated the source code with a mirror site, he now runs a fairly recent unofficial CVSup mirror. Deciding he has a stable environment, the processing power, the network capacity and the storage capacity to run an official mirror, he mails the CVSup Mirror Site Coordinator who decides whether the mirror should become an official mirror or not. In making this decision, the CVSup Mirror Site Coordinator has to determine whether that geographical area needs another mirror site, if the mirror administrator has the skills to run it reliably, if the network bandwidth is adequate and if the master server has the capacity to server another mirror. If CVSup Mirror Site Coordinator decides that the mirror should become an official mirror, he obtains an authentication key from the mirror admin that he installs so the mirror admin can update the mirror from the master server. Figure 6-3. Process summary: adding a CVSup mirror When a CVSup mirror administrator of an unofficial mirror offers to become an official mirror site, the CVSup coordinator decides if another mirror is needed and if there is sufficient capacity to accommodate it. If so, an authorisation key is requested and the mirror is given access to the main distribution site and added to the list of official mirrors. Tools used in this process: CVSup SSH 2 Hats involved in this process: CVSup Mirror Site Coordinator CVSup Mirror Site Admin 6.3. Committing code The committing of new or modified code is one of the most frequent processes in the FreeBSD project and will usually happen many times a day. Committing of code can only be done by a “committer”. Committers commit either code written by themselves, code submitted to them or code submitted through a problem report. When code is written by the developer that is non-trivial, he should seek a code review from the community. This is done by sending mail to the relevant list asking for review. Before submitting the code for review, he should ensure it compiles correctly with the entire tree and that all relevant tests run. This is called “pre-commit test”. When contributed code is received, it should be reviewed by the committer and tested the same way. When a change is committed to a part of the source that has been contributed from an outside Vendor, the maintainer should ensure that the patch is contributed back to the vendor. This is in line with the open source philosophy and makes it easier to stay in sync with outside projects as the patches do not have to be reapplied every time a new release is made. After the code has been available for review and no further changes are necessary, the code is committed into the development branch, -CURRENT. If the change applies for the -STABLE branch or the other branches as well, a “Merge From Current” ("MFC") countdown is set by the committer. After the number of days the committer chose when setting the MFC have passed, an email will automatically be sent to the committer reminding him to commit it to the -STABLE branch (and possibly security branches as well). Only security critical changes should be merged to security branches. Delaying the commit to -STABLE and other branches allows for “parallel debugging” where the committed code is tested on a wide range of configurations. This makes changes to -STABLE to contain fewer faults and thus giving the branch its name. Figure 6-4. Process summary: A committer commits code When a committer has written a piece of code and wants to commit it, he first needs to determine if it is trivial enough to go in without prior review or if it should first be reviewed by the developer community. If the code is trivial or has been reviewed and the committer is not the maintainer, he should consult the maintainer before proceeding. If the code is contributed by an outside vendor, the maintainer should create a patch that is sent back to the vendor. The code is then committed and the deployed by the users. Should they find problems with the code, this will be reported and the committer can go back to writing a patch. If a vendor is affected, he can choose to implement or ignore the patch. Figure 6-5. Process summary: A contributor commits code The difference when a contributor makes a code contribution is that he submits the code through the send-pr program. This report is picked up by the maintainer who reviews the code and commits it. Hats included in this process are: Committer Contributor Vendor Reviewer [FreeBSD, 2001] [Jørgensen, 2001] 6.4. Core election Core elections are held at least every two years. [8] Nine core members are elected. New elections are held if the number of core members drops below seven. New elections can also be held should at least 1/3 of the active committers demand this. When an election is to take place, core announces this at least 6 weeks in advance, and appoints an election manager to run the elections. Only committers can be elected into core. The candidates need to submit their candidacy at least one week before the election starts, but can refine their statements until the voting starts. They are presented in the candidates list. When writing their election statements, the candidates must answer a few standard questions submitted by the election manager. During elections, the rule that a committer must have committed during the 12 past months is followed strictly. Only these committers are eligible to vote. When voting, the committer may vote once in support of up to nine nominees. The voting is done over a period of four weeks with reminders being posted on “developers” mailing list that is available to all committers. The election results are released one week after the election ends, and the new core team takes office one week after the results have been posted. Should there be a voting tie, this will be resolved by the new, unambiguously elected core members. Votes and candidate statements are archived, but the archives are not publicly available. Figure 6-6. Process summary: Core elections Core announces the election and selects an election manager. He prepares the elections, and when ready, candidates can announce their candidacies through submitting their statements. The committers then vote. After the vote is over, the election results are announced and the new core team takes office. Hats in core elections are: Core team Committer Election Manager [FreeBSD, 2000A] [FreeBSD, 2002B] [FreeBSD, 2002G] 6.5. Development of new features Within the project there are sub-projects that are working on new features. These projects are generally done by one person [Jørgensen, 2001]. Every project is free to organise development as it sees fit. However, when the project is merged to the -CURRENT branch it must follow the project guidelines. When the code has been well tested in the -CURRENT branch and deemed stable enough and relevant to the -STABLE branch, it is merged to the -STABLE branch. The requirements of the project are given by developer wishes, requests from the community in terms of direct requests by mail, Problem Reports, commercial funding for the development of features, or contributions by the scientific community. The wishes that come within the responsibility of a developer are given to that developer who prioritises his time between the request and his wishes. A common way to do this is maintain a TODO-list maintained by the project. Items that do not come within someone's responsibility are collected on TODO-lists unless someone volunteers to take the responsibility. All requests, their distribution and follow-up are handled by the GNATS tool. Requirements analysis happens in two ways. The requests that come in are discussed on mailing lists, both within the main project and in the sub-project that the request belongs to or is spawned by the request. Furthermore, individual developers on the sub-project will evaluate the feasibility of the requests and determine the prioritisation between them. Other than archives of the discussions that have taken place, no outcome is created by this phase that is merged into the main project. As the requests are prioritised by the individual developers on the basis of doing what they find interesting, necessary or are funded to do, there is no overall strategy or priorisation of what requests to regard as requirements and following up their correct implementation. However, most developers have some shared vision of what issues are more important, and they can ask for guidelines from the release engineering team. The verification phase of the project is two-fold. Before committing code to the current-branch, developers request their code to be reviewed by their peers. This review is for the most part done by functional testing, but also code review is important. When the code is committed to the branch, a broader functional testing will happen, that may trigger further code review and debugging should the code not behave as expected. This second verification form may be regarded as structural verification. Although the sub-projects themselves may write formal tests such as unit tests, these are usually not collected by the main project and are usually removed before the code is committed to the current branch. [9] 6.6. Maintenance It is an advantage to the project to for each area of the source have at least one person that knows this area well. Some parts of the code have designated maintainers. Others have de-facto maintainers, and some parts of the system do not have maintainers. The maintainer is usually a person from the sub-project that wrote and integrated the code, or someone who has ported it from the platform it was written for. [10] The maintainer's job is to make sure the code is in sync with the project the code comes from if it is contributed code, and apply patches submitted by the community or write fixes to issues that are discovered. The main bulk of work that is put into the FreeBSD project is maintenance. [Jørgensen, 2001] has made a figure showing the life cycle of changes. Figure 6-7. Jørgenssen's model for change integration Here “development release” refers to the -CURRENT branch while “production release” refers to the -STABLE branch. The “pre-commit test” is the functional testing by peer developers when asked to do so or trying out the code to determine the status of the sub-project. “Parallel debugging” is the functional testing that can trigger more review, and debugging when the code is included in the -CURRENT branch. As of this writing, there were 269 committers in the project. When they commit a change to a branch, that constitutes a new release. It is very common for users in the community to track a particular branch. The immediate existence of a new release makes the changes widely available right away and allows for rapid feedback from the community. This also gives the community the response time they expect on issues that are of importance to them. This makes the community more engaged, and thus allows for more and better feedback that again spurs more maintenance and ultimately should create a better product. Before making changes to code in parts of the tree that has a history unknown to the committer, the committer is required to read the commit logs to see why certain features are implemented the way they are in order not to make mistakes that have previously either been thought through or resolved. 6.7. Problem reporting FreeBSD comes with a problem reporting tool called “send-pr” that is a part of the GNATS package. All users and developers are encouraged to use this tool for reporting problems in software they do not maintain. Problems include bug reports, feature requests, features that should be enhanced and notices of new versions of external software that is included in the project. Problem reports are sent to an email address where it is inserted into the GNATS maintenance database. A Bugbuster classifies the problem and sends it to the correct group or maintainer within the project. After someone has taken responsibility for the report, the report is being analysed. This analysis includes verifying the problem and thinking out a solution for the problem. Often feedback is required from the report originator or even from the FreeBSD community. Once a patch for the problem is made, the originator may be asked to try it out. Finally, the working patch is integrated into the project, and documented if applicable. It there goes through the regular maintenance cycle as described in section maintenance. These are the states a problem report can be in: open, analyzed, feedback, patched, suspended and closed. The suspended state is for when further progress is not possible due to the lack of information or for when the task would require so much work that nobody is working on it at the moment. Figure 6-8. Process summary: problem reporting A problem is reported by the report originator. It is then classified by a bugbuster and handed to the correct maintainer. He verifies the problem and discusses the problem with the originator until he has enough information to create a working patch. This patch is then committed and the problem report is closed. The roles included in this process are: Report originator Maintainership Bugbuster [FreeBSD, 2002C]. [FreeBSD, 2002D] 6.8. Reacting to misbehaviour [FreeBSD, 2001] has a number of rules that committers should follow. However, it happens that these rules are broken. The following rules exist in order to be able to react to misbehaviour. They specify what actions will result in how long a suspension the committer's commit privileges. Committing during code freezes without the approval of the Release Engineering team - 2 days Committing to a security branch without approval - 2 days Commit wars - 5 days to all participating parties Impolite or inappropriate behaviour - 5 days [Lehey, 2002] For the suspensions to be efficient, any single core member can implement a suspension before discussing it on the “core” mailing list. Repeat offenders can, with a 2/3 vote by core, receive harsher penalties, including permanent removal of commit privileges. (However, the latter is always viewed as a last resort, due to its inherent tendency to create controversy). All suspensions are posted to the “developers” mailing list, a list available to committers only. It is important that you cannot be suspended for making technical errors. All penalties come from breaking social etiquette. Hats involved in this process: Core team Committer 6.9. Release engineering The FreeBSD project has a Release Engineering team with a principal release engineer that is responsible for creating releases of FreeBSD that can be brought out to the user community via the net or sold in retail outlets. Since FreeBSD is available on multiple platforms and releases for the different architectures are made available at the same time, the team has one person in charge of each architecture. Also, there are roles in the team responsible for coordinating quality assurance efforts, building a package set and for having an updated set of documents. When referring to the release engineer, a representative for the release engineering team is meant. When a release is coming, the FreeBSD project changes shape somewhat. A release schedule is made containing feature- and code-freezes, release of interim releases and the final release. A feature-freeze means no new features are allowed to be committed to the branch without the release engineers' explicit consent. Code-freeze means no changes to the code (like bugs-fixes) are allowed to be committed without the release engineers explicit consent. This feature- and code-freeze is known as stabilising. During the release process, the release engineer has the full authority to revert to older versions of code and thus "back out" changes should he find that the changes are not suitable to be included in the release. There are three different kinds of releases: .0 releases are the first release of a major version. These are branched of the -CURRENT branch and have a significantly longer release engineering cycle due to the unstable nature of the -CURRENT branch .X releases are releases of the -STABLE branch. They are scheduled to come out every 4 months. .X.Y releases are security releases that follow the .X branch. These come out only when sufficient security fixes have been merged since the last release on that branch. New features are rarely included, and the security team is far more involved in these than in regular releases. For releases of the -STABLE-branch, the release process starts 45 days before the anticipated release date. During the first phase, the first 15 days, the developers merge what changes they have had in -CURRENT that they want to have in the release to the release branch. When this period is over, the code enters a 15 day code freeze in which only bug fixes, documentation updates, security-related fixes and minor device driver changes are allowed. These changes must be approved by the release engineer in advance. At the beginning of the last 15 day period a release candidate is created for widespread testing. Updates are less likely to be allowed during this period, except for important bug fixes and security updates. In this final period, all releases are considered release candidates. At the end of the release process, a release is created with the new version number, including binary distributions on web sites and the creation of a CD-ROM images. However, the release is not considered "really released" until a PGP-signed message stating exactly that, is sent to the mailing list freebsd-announce; anything labelled as a "release" before that may well be in-process and subject to change before the PGP-signed message is sent. [11]. The releases of the -CURRENT-branch (that is, all releases that end with “.0”) are very similar, but with twice as long timeframe. It starts 8 weeks prior to the release with announcement of the release time line. Two weeks into the release process, the feature freeze is initiated and performance tweaks should be kept to a minimum. Four weeks prior to the release, an official beta version is made available. Two weeks prior to release, the code is officially branched into a new version. This version is given release candidate status, and as with the release engineering of -STABLE, the code freeze of the release candidate is hardened. However, development on the main development branch can continue. Other than these differences, the release engineering processes are alike. .0 releases go into their own branch and are aimed mainly at early adopters. The branch then goes through a period of stabilisation, and it is not until the Release Engineering Team> decides the demands to stability have been satisfied that the branch becomes -STABLE and -CURRENT targets the next major version. While this for the majority has been with .1 versions, this is not a demand. Most releases are made when a given date that has been deemed a long enough time since the previous release comes. A target is set for having major releases every 18 months and minor releases every 4 months. The user community has made it very clear that security and stability cannot be sacrificed by self-imposed deadlines and target release dates. For slips of time not to become too long with regards to security and stability issues, extra discipline is required when committing changes to -STABLE. Figure 6-9. Process summary: release engineering These are the stages in the release engineering process. Multiple release candidates may be created until the release is deemed stable enough to be released. [FreeBSD, 2002E] Chapter 7 Tools The major support tools for supporting the development process are CVS, CVSup, Perforce, GNATS, Mailman and OpenSSH. Except for CVSup, these are externally developed tools. These tools are commonly used in the open source world. 7.1. Concurrent Versions System (CVS) Concurrent Versions System or simply “CVS” is a system to handle multiple versions of text files and tracking who committed what changes and why. A project lives within a “repository” and different versions are considered different “branches”. 7.2. CVSup CVSup is a software package for distributing and updating collections of files across a network. It consists of a client program, cvsup, and a server program, cvsupd. The package is tailored specifically for distributing CVS repositories, and by taking advantage of CVS' properties, it performs updates much faster than traditional systems. 7.3. GNATS GNATS is a maintenance database consisting of a set of tools to track bugs at a central site. It supports the bug tracking process for sending and handling bugs as well as querying and updating the database and editing bug reports. The project uses one of its many client interfaces, “send-pr”, to send “Problem Reports” by email to the projects central GNATS server. The committers have also web and command-line clients available. 7.4. Mailman Mailman is a program that automates the management of mailing lists. The FreeBSD Project uses it to run 16 general lists, 60 technical lists, 4 limited lists and 5 lists with CVS commit logs. It is also used for many mailing lists set up and used by other people and projects in the FreeBSD community. General lists are lists for the general public, technical lists are mainly for the development of specific areas of interest, and closed lists are for internal communication not intended for the general public. The majority of all the communication in the project goes through these 85 lists [FreeBSD, 2003A, Appendix C]. 7.5. Perforce Perforce is a commercial software configuration management system developed by Perforce Systems that is available on over 50 operating systems. It is a collection of clients built around the Perforce server that contains the central file repository and tracks the operations done upon it. The clients are both clients for accessing the repository and administration of its configuration. 7.6. Pretty Good Privacy Pretty Good Privacy, better known as PGP, is a cryptosystem using a public key architecture to allow people to digitally sign and/or encrypt information in order to ensure secure communication between two parties. A signature is used when sending information out many recipients, enabling them to verify that the information has not been tampered with before they received it. In the FreeBSD Project this is the primary means of ensuring that information has been written by the person who claims to have written it, and not altered in transit. 7.7. Secure Shell Secure Shell is a standard for securely logging into a remote system and for executing commands on the remote system. It allows other connections, called tunnels, to be established and protected between the two involved systems. This standard exists in two primary versions, and only version two is used for the FreeBSD Project. The most common implementation of the standard is OpenSSH that is a part of the project's main distribution. Since its source is updated more often than FreeBSD releases, the latest version is also available in the ports tree. Chapter 8 Sub-projects Sub-projects are formed to reduce the amount of communication needed to coordinate the group of developers. When a problem area is sufficiently isolated, most communication would be within the group focusing on the problem, requiring less communication with the groups they communicate with than were the group not isolated. 8.1. The Ports Subproject A “port” is a set of meta-data and patches that are needed to fetch, compile and install correctly an external piece of software on a FreeBSD system. The amount of ports have grown at a tremendous rate, as shown by the following figure. Figure 8-1. Number of ports added between 1996 and 2005 Figure 8-1 is taken from the FreeBSD web site. It shows the number of ports available to FreeBSD in the period 1995 to 2005. It looks like the curve has first grown exponentionally, and then since the middle of 2001 grown linerly. As the external software described by the port often is under continued development, the amount of work required to maintain the ports is already large, and increasing. This has led to the ports part of the FreeBSD project gaining a more empowered structure, and is more and more becoming a sub-project of the FreeBSD project. Ports has its own core team with the Ports Manager as its leader, and this team can appoint committers without FreeBSD Core's approval. Unlike in the FreeBSD Project, where a lot of maintenance frequently is rewarded with a commit bit, the ports sub-project contains many active maintainers that are not committers. Unlike the main project, the ports tree is not branched. Every release of FreeBSD follows the current ports collection and has thus available updated information on where to find programs and how to build them. This, however, means that a port that makes dependencies on the system may need to have variations depending on what version of FreeBSD it runs on. With an unbranched ports repository it is not possible to guarantee that any port will run on anything other than -CURRENT and -STABLE, in particular older, minor releases. There is neither the infrastructure nor volunteer time needed to guarantee this. For efficiency of communication, teams depending on Ports, such as the release engineering team, have their own ports liaisons. 8.2. The FreeBSD Documentation Project The FreeBSD Documentation project was started January 1995. From the initial group of a project leader, four team leaders and 16 members, they are now a total of 44 committers. The documentation mailing list has just under 300 members, indicating that there is quite a large community around it. The goal of the Documentation project is to provide good and useful documentation of the FreeBSD project, thus making it easier for new users to get familiar with the system and detailing advanced features for the users. The main tasks in the Documentation project are to work on current projects in the “FreeBSD Documentation Set”, and translate the documentation to other languages. Like the FreeBSD Project, documentation is split in the same branches. This is done so that there is always an updated version of the documentation for each version. Only documentation errors are corrected in the security branches. Like the ports sub-project, the Documentation project can appoint documentation committers without FreeBSD Core's approval. [FreeBSD, 2003B]. The Documentation project has a primer. This is used both to introduce new project members to the standard tools and syntaxes and acts as a reference when working on the project. References [Brooks, 1995] Frederick P. Brooks, 1975, 1995, 0201835959, Addison-Wesley Pub Co, The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition). [Saers, 2003] Niklas Saers, 2003, A project model for the FreeBSD Project: Candidatus Scientiarum thesis. [Jørgensen, 2001] Niels Jørgensen, 2001, Putting it All in the Trunk: Incremental Software Development in the FreeBSD Open Source Project. [PMI, 2000] Project Management Institute, 1996, 2000, 1-880410-23-0, Project Management Institute, Pennsylvania, PMBOK Guide: A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, 2000 Edition. [FreeBSD, 2000A] 2002, Core Bylaws. [FreeBSD, 2002A] 2002, FreeBSD Developer's Handbook. [FreeBSD, 2002B] 2002, Core team election 2002. [Losh, 2002] Warner Losh, 2002, Working with Hats. [FreeBSD, 2002C] Dag-Erling Smørgrav and Hiten Pandya, 2002, The FreeBSD Documentation Project, Problem Report Handling Guidelines. [FreeBSD, 2002D] Dag-Erling Smørgrav, 2002, The FreeBSD Documentation Project, Writing FreeBSD Problem Reports. [FreeBSD, 2001] 2001, The FreeBSD Documentation Project, Committers Guide. [FreeBSD, 2002E] Murray Stokely, 2002, The FreeBSD Documentation Project, FreeBSD Release Engineering. [FreeBSD, 2003A] The FreeBSD Documentation Project, FreeBSD Handbook. [FreeBSD, 2002F] 2002, The FreeBSD Documentation Project, Contributors to FreeBSD. [FreeBSD, 2002G] 2002, The FreeBSD Project, Core team elections 2002. [FreeBSD, 2002H] 2002, The FreeBSD Project, Commit Bit Expiration Policy: 2002/04/06 15:35:30. [FreeBSD, 2002I] 2002, The FreeBSD Project, New Account Creation Procedure: 2002/08/19 17:11:27. [FreeBSD, 2003B] 2002, The FreeBSD Documentation Project, FreeBSD DocEng Team Charter: 2003/03/16 12:17. [Lehey, 2002] Greg Lehey, 2002, Greg Lehey, Two years in the trenches: The evolution of a software project. Notes [1] This goes hand-in-hand with Brooks' law that “adding another person to a late project will make it later” since it will increase the communication needs Brooks, 1995. A project model is a tool to reduce the communication needs. [2] Statistics are generated by counting the number of entries in the file fetched by portsdb by April 1st, 2005. portsdb is a part of the port sysutils/portupgrade. [3] The period from January 1st, 2004 to December 31st, 2004 was examined to find this number. [4] For instance, the development of the Bluetooth stack started as a sub-project until it was deemed stable enough to be merged into the -CURRENT branch. Now it is a part of the core FreeBSD system. [5] According to Kirk McKusick, after 20 years of developing UNIX operating systems, the interfaces are for the most part figured out. There is therefore no need for much design. However, new applications of the system and new hardware leads to some implementations being more beneficial than those that used to be preferred. One example is the introduction of web browsing that made the normal TCP/IP connection a short burst of data rather than a steady stream over a longer period of time. [6] The first release this actually happened for was 4.5-RELEASE, but security branches were at the same time created for 4.3-RELEASE and 4.4-RELEASE. [7] There is a terminology overlap with respect to the word "stable", which leads to some confusion. The -STABLE branch is still a development branch, whose goal is to be useful for most people. If it is never acceptable for a system to get changes that are not announced at the time it is deployed, that system should run a security branch. [8] The first Core election was held September 2000 [9] More and more tests are however performed when building the system &

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