Suddenly STAGE appeared

[Mike Brown]

Paul Schmehl wrote:
> Or did I miss the announcement?

On this list, there are two ongoing threads about it,
started in the last couple days. 

Look for subject lines "Explain staging" and
"[HEADSUP] Staging, packaging and more" here:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2013-October/086339.html
 
> Is there a doc that explains STAGE and how to convert a port to the new 
> system?  Why STAGE was created?  What it's purpose is?

General overviews:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2013-October/086341.html
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2013-October/086346.html

Conversion details:
https://wiki.freebsd.org/ports/StageDir

IMHO the overviews need to be incorporated into the wiki.