HEADS UP! Ports freeze for 5.1 in 2 days

Glenn Johnson glennpj at charter.net
Wed May 21 20:37:48 PDT 2003


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 at charter.net


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