From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 15 22:11:50 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60029106566B; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:11:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@insightbb.com) Received: from mxsf03.insightbb.com (mxsf03.insightbb.com [74.128.0.64]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA5DD8FC15; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:11:49 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.49,480,1262581200"; d="scan'208";a="799998266" Received: from unknown (HELO asav03.insightbb.com) ([172.31.249.123]) by mxsf03.insightbb.com with ESMTP; 15 Feb 2010 17:11:48 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApsEAENVeUvQLicL/2dsb2JhbACcCrxNhFsEgxQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.49,480,1262581200"; d="scan'208";a="124794704" Received: from 208-46-39-11.dia.static.qwest.net (HELO laptop2.stevenfriedrich.org) ([208.46.39.11]) by asavout03.insightbb.com with ESMTP; 15 Feb 2010 17:11:48 -0500 From: Steven Friedrich To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:11:47 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.4 (FreeBSD/8.0-STABLE; KDE/4.3.5; i386; ; ) References: <20100215171858.GB13685@droso.net> In-Reply-To: <20100215171858.GB13685@droso.net> X-Face: i~b2iK'Z*tJ)pO9@6lJG=k7>N, V~YMq":Iwdl!m|A"g, N@)'|zb[{ Cc: ports@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org, re@freebsd.org, portmgr@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [HEADSUP]: ports feature freeze now in effect X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:11:50 -0000 On Monday 15 February 2010 12:19:01 pm Erwin Lansing wrote: > In preparation for 7.3-RELEASE, the ports tree is now in feature freeze. > > Normal upgrade, new ports, and changes that only affect other branches > are allowed without prior approval but with the extra > Feature safe: yes tag in the commit message. Any commit that is > sweeping, i.e. touches a large number of ports, infrastructural changes, > commts to ports with unusually high number of dependent ports, and any > other commit that requires the rebuilding of many packages is not allowed > without prior explicit approval from portmgr after that date. > > When in doubt, please do not hesitate to contact portmgr. > > -erwin > I suspect this means we won't get KDE 4.4 for quite some time...