HEADS UP: xorg upgrade plans

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 11:36:03PM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Wed, 2 May 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > In particular all ports committers are expected to participate in this 
> > process of eating our own dogfood :)
> 
> Our marketing folks educated me to use the phrase "drinking our own 
> champagne" instead. :)

;-)

> > 5) CVS will stay frozen for a period to be evaluated (probably another
> > couple of weeks) to deal with the inevitable remaining fallout as
> > users encounter yet more problems with the upgrade.
> 
> Does this freeze apply to the whole ports tree, or only (relatively
> directly) affected parts of the tree?  For example, does this also
> apply to lang/gccXY?

It will apply to everything.  It will be basically the same procedure
we usually use for a release cycle, since this event is easily
comparable in scope (probably bigger in fact).  The good news is that
if we all jump in to help, the freeze will be over sooner.

Kris