Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:44:30 +0200 From: Erwin Lansing <erwin@FreeBSD.org> To: ports@FreeBSD.org, stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] Ports feature freeze coming soon Message-ID: <20100614114429.GH76036@droso.net> In-Reply-To: <20100608182053.GA41759@rex.goodking.ca> References: <20100608182053.GA41759@rex.goodking.ca>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 02:20:53PM -0400, FreeBSD portmgr secretary wrote: > In preparation for 8.1-RELEASE, the ports tree will be in feature freeze > after release candidate 1 (RC1) is released, currently planned for June 11. As you may have noticed, RC1 has not been released as yet, but the delay is not expected to be more than a few days. The ports feature freeze will therefore be postponed until this Friday, June 18, 12pm UTC. We do still ask you to be conservative with your changes until then. -erwin > > If you have any commits with high impact planned, get them in the tree > before then and if they require an experimental build, have a request for > one in portmgr@ hands within the next few days. > > Note that this again will be a feature freeze and not a full freeze. > Normal upgrade, new ports, and changes that only affect other branches will > be 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, commits to ports with unusually > high number of dependencies, and any other commit that requires the > rebuilding of many packages will not be allowed without prior explicit > approval from portmgr@ after that date. > > Thomas > with portmgr-secretary@ hat on > > -- > Thomas Abthorpe | FreeBSD Ports Management Team Secretary > tabthorpe@FreeBSD.org | portmgr-secretary@FreeBSD.org -- Erwin Lansing http://droso.org Prediction is very difficult especially about the future erwin@FreeBSD.org [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFMFhYdqy9aWxUlaZARAvhwAJ9sd6TN0wLm/8PKEcs0FscnnhFJjACeO/0C Y1Krbqjp7qSv/F76SRcoWII= =XWFG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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