Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 13:54:00 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Ports tree : Xorg-7.2 release freeze, ETA? Message-ID: <464F63E8.5060600@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <464F6336.7040808@u.washington.edu> References: <464F6336.7040808@u.washington.edu>
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Garrett Cooper wrote: > Hello, > > The gist of the email is asking the age old question, "are we there > yet?" > > As many have commented there are a number of issues with a variety > of ports which need to be addressed. Some I've noticed are net/samba3 > and sysutils/eject, which contain security issues affecting production > workstations and servers. > > Question for the future: > > Wouldn't it be sufficient to force major component testers (in this > case Xorg 7.2) to use periodic snapshots of the ports tree (possibly CVS > branching), while allowing continued development in the ports tree? Part > of my concern is based in the fact that this might be causing issues > with customer integrity, thus degrading confidence in FreeBSD as a > production product. > > Thanks, > -Garrett Of course flo had to answer the ETA part right after I submitted my question XD. -Garrett
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