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Date:      Sun, 20 Oct 2019 23:35:58 +0000
From:      Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
To:        "Tobias C. Berner" <tcberner@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r514669 - in head: . Mk/Uses archivers/kf5-karchive devel/kf5-extra-cmake-modules devel/kf5-kapidox devel/kf5-kauth devel/kf5-kbookmarks devel/kf5-kcmutils devel/kf5-kconfig devel/kf5-k...
Message-ID:  <20191020233557.GA4508@lonesome.com>
In-Reply-To: <201910171806.x9HI6g9e044915@repo.freebsd.org>
References:  <201910171806.x9HI6g9e044915@repo.freebsd.org>

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On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 06:06:42PM +0000, Tobias C. Berner wrote:
> This release is part of a series of planned monthly releases making
> improvements available to developers in a quick and predictable manner.

Ouch.  I know it's probably impossible to ask this, but ... is there
any way we can limit the rate of change here?  e.g. by -devel ports
or something similar?

Here's my worry (speaking as a powerpc64 guy).  The big commit comes
in; it takes several days for even one of our fast machines to catch
up; then if we find any problems, more time to test patches; then
time to submit/process the PR; only after which are the official
package builders guaranteed to get the right result.

w/rt powerpc64 especially, there are so many fast-moving large
changes right now (base system compiler, ports gcc compiler,
ports llvm compiler) + x11 + uh, whatever else, that IMHO we are
moving farther away from our goal of having a usable package set
(especially for ports-head) rather than closer.

Your opinion?

mcl



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