Where is FreeBSD going?

[Roman Neuhauser]

# kris at obsecurity.org / 2004-01-07 23:17:31 -0800:
> On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 09:08:38PM +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
> 
> >     The ports freeze seems to last too long with recent releses. Or
> >     maybe it's just I've gotten more involved, but out of the last four
> >     months (2003/09/07-today), ports tree has been completely open
> >     for whopping 28 days.
> 
> That might be technically true, but it's misleading and doesn't
> support the point you're trying to make.  During this period the ports
> collection has only been frozen for a couple of weeks, and the
> majority of commit activities were not restricted for the rest of the
> period in question.

    That might be technically true, but the precise semantics of
    "(semi-)freeze" aren't as widely known as you seem to think.
    E. g. yesterday or today I received an email from a committer in
    response to my two mails to ports@ (the first urging a repocopy
    requested in a PR some time ago, the other retracting the request
    because of the freeze) saying (paraphrased) "to my surprise I was
    told repocopies are allowed during freeze".  Some people just prefer
    to err on the safe side.
 
> >     Porter's handbook, and FDP Primer, while valuable (esp. the former)
> >     leave many questions unanswered.  (I'm not going to further this
> >     rant, but will gladly provide feedback to anyone who asks.)
> 
> I would have thought the procedure to rectify this would be obvious:

    The procedure really is obvious, but there's only so much time in a
    day.

    Also, I would have thought the Porter's handbook would e. g. contain
    info on preventing installation of .la files (I gathered from the
    ports@ list that they shouldn't be installed), isn't this lack quite
    obvious?

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