HEADSUP: ports freeze delay

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Mon Mar 14 19:23:46 PST 2005


On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 03:39 +0100, Danny Pansters 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.

I sent a reply out, and the only date that went into
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/schedule.html was 3/15.  I don't
know how much more published it could have been.

Joe

> 
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> Dan
> 
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