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Date:      Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:17:07 -0600
From:      "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com>
To:        Steven Friedrich <freebsd@insightbb.com>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org, re@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, portmgr@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [HEADSUP]: ports feature freeze now in effect
Message-ID:  <11167f521002151417u52d92b37q706f291c181bf800@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201002151711.47297.freebsd@insightbb.com>
References:  <20100215171858.GB13685@droso.net> <201002151711.47297.freebsd@insightbb.com>

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On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Steven Friedrich <freebsd@insightbb.com> wrote:
> 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...
> _______________________________________________

I am not sure how close KDE 4.4 is but it would have been nice to get
KDE in before the freeze


Sam Fourman Jr.


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