From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 25 08:15:40 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B325E16A4CE for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 08:15:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (CPE0050040655c8-CM00111ae02aac.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [69.194.102.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87C5143D45 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 08:15:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 76020514AD; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 01:16:16 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 01:16:16 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Roman Kennke Message-ID: <20041025081616.GA73266@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <1098641975.705.10.camel@moonlight> <20041024223051.GA94197@xor.obsecurity.org> <1098686273.666.5.camel@moonlight> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="lrZ03NoBR/3+SXJZ" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1098686273.666.5.camel@moonlight> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org cc: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: RELEASE_X_Y_Z branches/tags maintained?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 08:15:40 -0000 --lrZ03NoBR/3+SXJZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 08:37:54AM +0200, Roman Kennke wrote: > Am Mo, den 25.10.2004 schrieb Kris Kennaway um 0:30: > > On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 08:19:36PM +0200, Roman Kennke wrote: > > > Hello list, > > >=20 > > > I have a question regarding the branches/tags of the ports tree for > > > stable releases. Are they in any way maintained. > >=20 > > No. >=20 > Hmm, wouldn't this be a good thing to do, especially on production > machines? I would greatly appreciate that. I see no reason to do major > updates (like x.1 -> x.2 only to get fixes in. For production machines I > would prefer some kind of stability and conservativism. > What is the problem with such a setup? Lack of interest? Lack of > manpower? Or wrong philosophy? Lack of manpower - it's a lot of extra work, and we already don't do a great job of keeping up with the incoming PR load. Kris --lrZ03NoBR/3+SXJZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBfLZQWry0BWjoQKURAq6lAJ0XbZ+vPArvJ3HC9e4wlarRPnTA1wCgw2AY SjlcoExKP2x797Bi7jXHTY0= =2ulW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --lrZ03NoBR/3+SXJZ--