HEADS UP: Ports freeze for 4.11-R

[Brandon D. Valentine]

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On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 09:53:11PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> The ports freeze for 4.11-RELEASE will start on 12/30 at 12:01 AM UTC.
> It's our intention to have a short freeze of a week or less this time
> because the ports collection is in relatively good shape on 4.x at the
> moment, so please don't do anything to change that.
> 
> In particular, in the lead-up to the freeze, please make sure you test
> major updates carefully on 4.x prior to committing, and if you don't
> have the opportunity to do so, then either ask someone else to test,
> or hold off until after the freeze.

I know most of us are quite busy this time of year, but out of
curiosity, is there any chance at all of Xorg 6.8 making it into the
tree before this release?  6.8.0 came out during the 5.3 release cycle
and obviously couldn't make it into that release in time.  Is there a
reason that 6.8.0 and now 6.8.1 have been held off?  There is a
seriously annoying bug in 6.7.0 and earlier that prevents Xv from
correctly allocating offscreen video memory for pixmaps.  It essentially
breaks every video app in existence.  The problem can be worked around
by specifying the XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps option in XF86Config, but this
is an inefficient way to draw video and also requires the end user to
understand the bug and track down the workaround.  More information on
the bug is here:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=474

Does it help if I point out that NetBSD has already beat us to the punch
with Xorg 6.8.1 by over a month?  Come on, they've got a tiny little
ports tree.  ;-)

Thanks,

Brandon
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