From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 14 11:44:32 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: stable@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF0EC1065672; Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:44:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erwin@mail.droso.net) Received: from mail.droso.net (koala.droso.net [IPv6:2001:6c8:130:400::6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 700A98FC18; Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:44:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.droso.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 018681CC9F; Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:44:30 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:44:30 +0200 From: Erwin Lansing To: ports@FreeBSD.org, stable@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20100614114429.GH76036@droso.net> References: <20100608182053.GA41759@rex.goodking.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="VuQYccsttdhdIfIP" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100608182053.GA41759@rex.goodking.ca> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD/i386 7.2-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] Ports feature freeze coming soon X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:44:33 -0000 --VuQYccsttdhdIfIP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 1= 1. 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 >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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 wi= ll > 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. >=20 > Thomas > with portmgr-secretary@ hat on >=20 > --=20 > Thomas Abthorpe | FreeBSD Ports Management Team Secretary > tabthorpe@FreeBSD.org | portmgr-secretary@FreeBSD.org --=20 Erwin Lansing http://droso.org Prediction is very difficult especially about the future erwin@FreeBSD.org --VuQYccsttdhdIfIP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFMFhYdqy9aWxUlaZARAvhwAJ9sd6TN0wLm/8PKEcs0FscnnhFJjACeO/0C Y1Krbqjp7qSv/F76SRcoWII= =XWFG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --VuQYccsttdhdIfIP--