HEADS UP: Be gentle with ports collection

[Kris Kennaway]

As you know, we are now in 5.1-BETA.  However, since we've spent so
much time in ports freeze over the last 6 months I'm not planning to
have an extended freeze period.  What will probably happen is that
we'll freeze a week or so before the final release date just to build
packages and make any final changes to the tree.  

However, this does not mean that it's open season on ports.  Please
bear in mind that we are in a release cycle, and large-scale changes
should not be made without coordination with portmgr.  I'm hoping to
get another round of bsd.port.mk changes in by then, but since I'm not
getting assistance from the other members of portmgr I don't know how
extensive they'll be.  Also, please take EXTRA care to ensure that the
tree remains buildable at all times.  INDEX has been broken for the
past 2 days because of a careless series of commits (and the committer
is not responding to email), so I'm going to have to fix it myself so
I can get on with building packages.

Thanks,
Kris

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