Ports tree : Xorg-7.2 release freeze, ETA?

Garrett Cooper youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Sat May 19 20:54:02 UTC 2007


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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