[HEADSUP]: ports feature freeze now in effect

Olivier Smedts olivier at gid0.org
Mon Feb 15 22:44:12 UTC 2010


2010/2/15 Steven Friedrich <freebsd at insightbb.com>:
> 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...

http://miwi.bsdcrew.de/2010/02/cft-kde-sc-4-4-0-for-freebsd/

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