HEADS UP: Ports freeze for 6.4 and 7.0 in effect

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 14:01:25 +0200, Erwin Lansing <erwin at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> In preparation for both the 6.4 and 7.1 releases, the ports tree has
> been frozen.  All commits have to be approved by portmgr.  See the
> portmgr webpage[1] for more information about what is and isn't
> allowed during the freeze.  We are aiming for a short freeze period,
> so we will be quite strict in allowing commits during the freeze.  Of
> course, we do appreciate any help fixing existing errors in the tree,
> so if anyone is bored, a good starting point will be portsmon[2].

Damn :/

My emacs-22.3 release update almost made it into ports before the freeze
by 1-2 days.  Is there any chance I could bribe you guys to get it in,
so we can have the latest stable 22.X GNU Emacs in the release?

Having said that, I am a bit unfamiliar with all the work port builders
have to do during the freeze, so if getting a new Emacs in the tree is
completely out of the question because it would create a lot of work for
you guys, that's ok.

On the other hand, if the ports stay frozen for several weeks and we
still have time to let it settle into the tree, it would be very nice to
include this version.  It includes a mildly important fix in the way
Emacs spawns Python processes[1] that would be _very_ nice to have in
ports sooner, rather than a couple of months later.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-09/msg00215.html

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