Ports tree : Xorg-7.2 release freeze, ETA?

Garrett Cooper youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Sat May 19 20:51:04 UTC 2007


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


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