[HEADSUP]: ports feature freeze now in effect

[Sam Fourman Jr.]

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Steven Friedrich <freebsd at insightbb.com> wrote:
> On Monday 15 February 2010 12:19:01 pm Erwin Lansing wrote:
>> In preparation for 7.3-RELEASE, the ports tree is now in feature freeze.
>>
>> Normal upgrade, new ports, and changes that only affect other branches
>> are allowed without prior approval but with the extra
>> Feature safe: yes tag in the commit message.  Any commit that is
>> sweeping, i.e. touches a large number of ports, infrastructural changes,
>> commts to ports with unusually high number of dependent ports, and any
>> other commit that requires the rebuilding of many packages is not allowed
>> without prior explicit approval from portmgr after that date.
>>
>> When in doubt, please do not hesitate to contact portmgr.
>>
>> -erwin
>>
> I suspect this means we won't get KDE 4.4 for quite some time...
> _______________________________________________

I am not sure how close KDE 4.4 is but it would have been nice to get
KDE in before the freeze


Sam Fourman Jr.