Welcome to The NetBSD Foundation Annual General Meeting 2025! . I will be the voice bot^W^Wmoderator for this year. . In the agenda we will have reports from: - board (billc) - secteam (billc) - releng (martin) - core (riastradh) - finance-exec (riastradh) - membership-exec (martin, christos) - pkgsrc-pmc (wiz) - pkgsrc-security (tm, leot) - gnats (dh) . If there are any last-minute additions please /msg me! . Q&A will be at the end. . When Q&A begins please /msg me "I have question for " or "I have question for " and I will give you voice when it is your turn. . [leot is presenting for me because I'm remote on a potato connection] We will start with board+social presentations, prepared by Cryo! - - submitted by billc for board: - Hello, and welcome to the 23nd Annual General Meeting of The NetBSD Foundation. - First off, I'd like to thank for volunteering to handle moderating and admins for doing the behind the scenes magic to make this event (and all our communication) possible. - 2024 progress (more in releng report): o - NetBSD 10.1 was released December 16, 2024 o - NetBSD 9.4 was released April 20, 2024 o - NetBSD 9.3 was released May 4, 2024 o - NetBSD 10.0 was release March 28,2024 - We are still working towards NetBSD-11 after over a year of development with innovative new features, improvements, and more bug fixes. Your commits are very much appreciated, as is your continued support of the foundation. - Now on to the report from the Board of Directors: - The NetBSD Foundation Board of Directors presents a consolidated list of the relevant and major actions that occurred since last AGM. Quite a few discussions, actions, and follow-ups crossed multiple meetings. Very few meetings resulted in not reaching quorum. Check our weekly meeting minutes in: localsrc/tnf/board/minutes for the latest on our progress. During this period, new director(s) were elected by the members and officers were renewed or installed. We continued with our Bronze level sponsorship support of BSDcan, AsiaBSDcon, and EuroBSDcon to improve our representation at conferences and developer summits. - We participated in the Google Summer of Code for 2024 and attended the Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit in San Jose. We are currently participating in GSoC this year with 3 students! - For 2024: these are the projects that passed o - Test root device and root file system selection o - ALTQ refactoring and NPF integration o - Emulating Missing Linux Syscalls: Tackling The L2N Problem o - Making Network Drivers MPSAFE in NetBSD - For 2025: these projects have been chosen o - Enhancing Support for NAT64 Protocol Translation in NetBSD o - Using bubblewrap to add sandboxing to NetBSD o - Asynchronous I/O Framework - We have provided core with a pre-approved, reasonable budget, to spend as they see most fit (such a projects) without an additional confirmation step from us. - We continued to improve our interaction and relationships with vendors, as well as participating in industry PSIRT/CSIRT with commercial vendors and other open-source projects. - The funded contracts continued for: o - improvements in release engineering - We are 14% through a fundraising campaign. *Please* consider donating, as we are a US IRS 501(c)3 charitable organization. - It has been an honor and pleasure to continue working with abs, dh, leot, khorben, mlelstv, and riastradh to accomplish all that we have in this year. - .eof ['s report, for socialmedia] - - submitted for socialmedia by billc: - A non-scientific representation of Social Media Presence: - X, formerly Twitter: (NetBSD has abandoned) @netbsd still has 9362 down from 10,000 followers @pkgsrc has 654 followers down from 694 NOTE: Due to X/Twitter management, people continue to leave. - - We have an account on the distributed social network ActivityPub ('the fediverse' or better known as Mastodon), where we have a small but dedicated fan base: - @netbsd@mastodon.sdf.org has 2279 followers up from 1800 (very active) - We have no presence on BlueSky (and we should fix that). - Facebook: 2,521 up from 2,400 members (sort of active) - On IRC our numbers are stable. To help improve connectivity options, we have a Matrix bridge to our IRC channel. - irc.libera.chat users: (very very active) #NetBSD: 330 up from 284 #NetBSD-code: 57 up from 53 #pkgsrc: 124 up from 109 - .eof And now... another report from Cryo for secteam! - - submitted by billc for secteam: - This is a brief report for security-team. - Since last AGM, there has been 1 NetBSD Security Advisories: ------------------------------------------------------------ NetBSD-SA2024-002 NetBSD-SA2024-002 OpenSSH CVE-2024-6387 `regreSSHion' - NetBSD-SA2024-001 Inadequate validation of user-supplied hostname in utmp_update(8) - There have been numerous bug fixes applied to the tree, pulled up to the current branch, and in the NetBSD-8, NetBSD-9 and NetBSD-10 releases. - NetBSD continues to be represented in a product security incident response working group with other operating system vendors, as well as a direct contact team with other BSD projects. This framework allows us to better work with vendors requiring an embargoed and/or coordinated release with other operating systems. We can begin working on issues that affect NetBSD much faster, instead of only notified after an embargo is lifted. We are expanding the number of vendors as time goes on, as well as participating in FIRST. - This is teaching us quite a bit of where we needed to improve our process, which is currently on-going. - Submitted respectfully on behalf of the security-officer(s), the security-team, and the sirt team. - .eof Next we have releng presentation. It was prepared by Martin () but unfortunately he could not attend. I will present it. - We are: abs agc bouyer he jdc martin msaitoh phil reed riz sborrill snj Since the last meeting, we have: o - Released NetBSD 10.1 o - Processed hundreds of pullup requests. o - Prepared a new build cluster and made it independent of cvs. Currently we are in the last round of cleanups before branching netbsd-11, a date has not been fixed but it is supposed to happen within the next (very) few weeks. Thanks to big help from admins, maya and especially taylor we have a new build cluster ready to take over the daily builds and it has successfully build most branches from an anonhg clone instead of cvs checkout already. There are very few minor adjustments to do and a few final tests before it goes live. The new build setup will reduce build times significantly (it can build a full HEAD release in less than 4 hours). We are still processing a huge amount of pullups. This is only possible because developers take the time to test their changes on the branch and submit a pullup request. We have been pretty good with this, and pulled up lots of security and usability improvements, as well as bug fixes to the various active branches. This is good for our users, thank you to everyone who cared and made it possible. The biggest current issue is the over-aged netbsd-9 branch. We need to get the NetBSD 11 release out ASAP to be able to move NetBSD 9.x out of support. Please all help with netbsd-11 once it is there to make the release cycle as smooth and short as possible! - Thanks Martin and releng@! Next... it's core@ presentation by Riastradh! (presenting for martin who wasn't able to make it) Core's job is to provide technical leadership for the project, manage funded projects, create roadmaps for the future of the project, and resolve disputes. Since agc retired, we have invited Rin Okuyama to join core after his extensive contributions to all levels of NetBSD, and we're excited to have him working with us. Our group is: Christos Zoulas Chuck Silvers Robert Elz Martin Husemann Matthew Green Taylor R Campbell Rin Okuyama The group can be reached at . One of the tasks of the core team is to oversee, initiate and approve funded projects. We had a few of those in the last year and a few ongoing and planned for the future: - martin and phil working on merging wifi from FreeBSD - releng work (martin) Our funded projects are driven by proposals from developers. We are always open to proposals from developers who would like to work on specific topics that require larger work or have been long neglected and need cleanup. We can make suggestions of areas we would like, but we aren't an employer who can order developers to work on projects -- we can only fund the proposals we get. Another task of the core team is to resolve disputes between developers and provide ruling for contested issues. This year was quiet in this regard. A long standing open technical decision was the move away from CVS to a modern revision control system. After years of discussions and half baked (or missing details) plans, Taylor moved things forward recently and came up with a way to provide both git and hg writable repositories, with a hg repository as the internal backend. He also wrote most of the build cluster adaptation, so it can now use hg clones from anonhg instead of cvs checkouts. There are a few minor open issues and we hope to complete the transition sometime this year. The most painful task for core is to automatically be part of the security team and acting as fallback to make sure that security issues are handled in a timely fashion. Please consider joining our security team to help. Another way you can help the core team is to take over maintenance of some of our big 3rd party software. Currently most of this is done by both christos@ and mrg@, who could use more time for core and other business. If you feel you could help, please contact the current maintainer (see src/doc/3RDPARTY). .eof Thanks Riastradh! Oh, one addendum -- the `[not missing details] plan' mentioned above is here: https://mail-index.NetBSD.org/tech-repository/2025/01/04/msg000805.html Thanks Next in the agenda... finance-exec@ presentation by Riastradh! Finance-exec maintains The NetBSD Foundation's financial records and assets at the board's direction. We balance the books, stand watch over the hoard of treasure in our mountain lair (and the non-cash financial instruments), pay our bills, send thank-you letters to donors so they can get tax deductions (in the US), maintain the list of donors and the amounts donated so far, handle taxes, write financial reports. . We are: - christos (Christos Zoulas) - reed (Jeremy C Reed) - riastradh (Taylor R Campbell) . The NetBSD Foundation's public 2025 financial report is at: https://www.NetBSD.org/foundation/reports/financial/2025.html We produce this from an internal ledger maintained with ledger(1) . . Highlights: - We have net assets of a little over 250k USD. - We received about 51k USD -- hitting our usual donation target. - We spent 66k USD, mainly on: o a new build cluster to replace our >decade-old one o release engineering and wifi update project . Last year we had a project, started as a GSoC project, to reduce the overhead in automatically processing donation acknowledgment letters. It's code-complete, but deployment has stalled and we need more work to finish it and reduce our workload. (If you've donated and haven't heard back yet, sorry -- that's because it takes a lot of clicks to process each donation, so we usually do them in a batch once a month!) . Happy to answer any questions about what finance-exec does, or swap notes on using ledger(1)! Thanks, -Riastradh, on behalf of finance-exec .eof Thanks again Riastradh! Next... we have membership-exec@ presentation prepared by and ! They could not present it so I'm going to present it - The current members of membership-exec are: - Christos Zoulas - Martin Husemann - Lex Wennmacher - Thomas Klausner , and - Ken Hornstein who is on sabbatical. - Membership-exec is responsible for all aspects of "membership", but in practice the main task is to handle membership applications. The number of active developers (as of 2025-05-17) is 145. Note that this number is a bit outdated, as the membership activity validation process required for the board election has not yet happened. - Since the last AGM we gained only 3 new developers, which is (again) way too few. We need to invite more people, please help active users and encourage them to apply. - The difference between developers and active developers is explained in the bylaws - an active developer has actually committed something in the last year, or contributed in an active way, like admins. - We'd like to emphasize that we appreciate all your replies to our membership RFC e-mails, although we do not usually acknowledge them. Please keep on providing feedback to the RFC mails. - Thanks Martin and Christos! Next in the agenda... We have the pkgsrc-pmc presentation prepared by Thomas ()! Unfortunately he could not attend so I will present it - The pkgsrc team kept thousands of packages in pkgsrc up to date and in good working order, and delivered four -- the 83rd through 86th -- stable branches. Great work! The pkgsrc team has welcomed two new developers, lloyd and dkazankov. gdt has stepped down from pkgsrc PMC - thank you very much for your calming and rational input to discussions, and your efforts on improving pkgsrc! dholland has joined us as the new board representative. The current roster is: - agc (emeritus member) - dholland - schmonz - wiz We have implemented a new pkgsrc policy for more stability: basically, for packages with a higher probability of fallout and for bootstrap packages, we ask for bulk builds or review before the commits. See https://NetBSD.org/docs/pkgsrc/policies.html for details. We have also removed support for some operating systems (GNU/kFreeBSD, MirBSD, BSD/OS, and Interix). We had regular pkgsrc branches, the latest ones were done by jperkin