From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Thu Oct 12 20:45:18 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE4A7E34545 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2017 20:45:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mad@madpilot.net) Received: from mail.madpilot.net (grunt.madpilot.net [78.47.145.38]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6E08F66951 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2017 20:45:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mad@madpilot.net) Received: from mail (mail [192.168.254.3]) by mail.madpilot.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3yCjN519XgzZqg; Thu, 12 Oct 2017 22:37:57 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=madpilot.net; h= content-transfer-encoding:content-language:content-type :content-type:in-reply-to:mime-version:user-agent:date:date :message-id:from:from:references:subject:subject:received :received; s=mail; t=1507840675; x=1509655076; bh=a0xYtvdy+Pw5+v aHfldk5LZ2abVi2wUfcwYER+/E38c=; b=j7t1TjAENrfc1y21d4FRom5m3clbmV Un6JTlDFM9LnopdJnWbUVyWTWutUFUDT7XgP6EQ/mLkV3Gk7LOABGOXRtwM5GdXC SHkrifDmop7NJxzM/78CGAaPn3zyI6nULCxhOduDtughle0NTTDSHGwojsgqe4rc Vlr6ObwpIJEv4= Received: from mail.madpilot.net ([192.168.254.3]) by mail (mail.madpilot.net [192.168.254.3]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id qwDl5jfYDCtb; Thu, 12 Oct 2017 22:37:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: from tommy.madpilot.net (micro.madpilot.net [88.149.173.206]) by mail.madpilot.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA; Thu, 12 Oct 2017 22:37:55 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: FLAVORS in quarterly branches To: Mel Pilgrim Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <1eed75f4-10f0-030c-7c97-65da5d4a7c31@bluerosetech.com> <8E3CE792-034D-4378-8A3E-804E29B173F5@adamw.org> <73ce21ef-a624-a958-8d49-e0cbf5f1f279@madpilot.net> <97752ce5-4240-d905-189c-c81817bd8fba@bluerosetech.com> From: Guido Falsi Message-ID: Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 22:37:54 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <97752ce5-4240-d905-189c-c81817bd8fba@bluerosetech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 20:45:18 -0000 On 10/12/2017 22:25, Mel Pilgrim wrote: > > > On 10/12/2017 00:58, Guido Falsi wrote: >> On 10/12/2017 01:04, Adam Weinberger wrote: >>>> On 11 Oct, 2017, at 16:52, Mel Pilgrim >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Will the FLAVORS feature be MFH'd to 2017Q4, or will it first show >>>> up with 2018Q1? I'm not going to flavor public ports just yet, but I >>>> have some local ports that would benefit from the feature. >>> >>> Categorically, if it lands in HEAD this quarter, it wouldn't appear >>> in quarterly until 2018Q1. Major new features without the kinks >>> ironed out is exactly what shouldn't get merged to quarterly. >>> >> >> AFAIK no flavor features can be committed to the official repo yet (a >> commit hook will prevent the commit). >> >> The feature is in for private testing. >> >> My understanding is that commits with flavors will be allowed to head >> starting in 2018, so the first quarterly with flavors in it should >> happen for 2018Q2. But, being the feature in by 2018Q1 backported >> updates may include flavors. > > I'm aware of all of this from the official feature announcement. I > figured the earliest it would appear in quarterly would be 2018Q1. Per > my original message, I'm not looking to flavour my ports in the public > repo just yet, but use the feature internally and wanted to know when it > would hit quarterly so I can put a timeframe on production use. Then, starting from January, quarterly branches could get some flavored ports. The bulk will be hitting quarterly with 2018Q2. -- Guido Falsi