[HEADSUP] The ports tree is now stage only

[Alfred Perlstein]

On 9/1/14 2:27 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The ports tree is now fully staged (only 2% has been left unstaged, marked as
> broken and will be removed from the ports tree if no PR to stage them are
> pending in bugzilla).
>
> I would like to thank every committer and maintainers for their work on staging!
> It allowed us to convert more than 23k packages to support stage in only 11
> months!
>
> Staging is a very important state, it allows us to right now be able to run
> quality testing scripts on the packages (which already allowed to fix tons of
> hidden problems)

This is all so cool, but so very excited about this:
>   and it allows use to be able to build packages as a regular
> user!
yes yes yes!!  Huge step forward to freebsd adoption!

>
> It also opens the gates to new features that users have been requesting for many
> years:
> - flavors
> - multiple packages
>
> Expect those features to happen in the near future.
>
> Best regards,
> Bapt on behalf of portmgr
>