Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 22:37:45 -0500 From: Glenn Johnson <glennpj@charter.net> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP! Ports freeze for 5.1 in 2 days Message-ID: <20030522033744.GA11164@gforce.johnson.home> In-Reply-To: <20030521102407.GF17716@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20030521102407.GF17716@rot13.obsecurity.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 03:24:08AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > I'll be freezing the ports tree on Thursday night, around 8pm PDT (3am > Friday morning UTC), in preparation for 5.1-RELEASE. As I announced > earlier in the release cycle we're doing things differently this time, > because the tree has spent a large amount of time in a frozen state > over the past 6 months. Since 5.1-RELEASE is scheduled for the end of > the month, this will be a hard freeze, meaning: > > ** NO UNAUTHORIZED COMMITS! THIS MEANS YOU! ** > > Because the freeze is starting only a week before the projected > release date, I will be tagging the tree and starting the (hopefully) > final release builds soon after the freeze begins. This means there > will be no room for sneaking in commits you've forgotten before now > without disrupting my release builds, and only the most critical fixes > will be approved. Can someone please take a look at PR ports/52187? I really think printing should be functional for the release. -- Glenn Johnson glennpj@charter.net
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20030522033744.GA11164>