HEADSUP: ports freeze delay

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 03:39:28 +0100, Danny Pansters <danny at ricin.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday 15 March 2005 03:04, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
>> 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...
>
>
> I was also under the impression that it was the 25th. Please have this  
> set in stone next time, and published. It's too unclear now.

marcus actually did sent second message near five to seven minutes or  
less, this is a crystal clear in the first place that he has it typo. Are  
you telling me that people don't read the second message?

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2005-February/021207.html
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2005-February/021209.html

> Dan


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