HEADSUP: ports freeze delay

Michael Nottebrock michaelnottebrock at gmx.net
Mon Mar 14 18:05:08 PST 2005


On Tuesday, 15. March 2005 02:47, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 02:40 +0100, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> > On Monday, 14. March 2005 19:24, Kirill Ponomarew wrote:
> > > Since portmgr decided to get new Xorg version 6.8.2 into ports
> > > before the freeze, we need some more time to test it than expected.
> > >
> > > Ports freeze is now scheduled to begin on March 21, 2005 and will
> > > last 10 days.
> >
> > Uhm. According to marcus@'s last HEADS UP (Death, taxes, and...ports
> > freeze), the ports-freeze was scheduled to begin on March 25th and take
> > "at least two weeks". How exactly will a negative delay and shortening of
> > period help Xorg getting tested?
>
> I sent a follow up immediately after that.  I mistyped.  It should have
> read March 15.

I guess I can consider myself lucky then, since my own schedule for KDE 3.4 
was firmly based on March 25. I guess March 21 will be doable with some 
stretching...

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