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Erwin LansingJun 18, 2010 5:10 am 
Ion-Mihai TetcuJun 18, 2010 7:36 am 
Subject:Re: [HEADSUP]: Ports feature freeze for 8.1 now in effect
From:Ion-Mihai Tetcu (ite@FreeBSD.org)
Date:Jun 18, 2010 7:36:22 am
List:org.freebsd.freebsd-stable

On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:10:28 +0200 Erwin Lansing <erw@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

In preparation for 8.1-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, commits 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.

"any commit that requires the rebuilding of many packages"

And this time we will ask for instant back-out of everything that should had not been committed in the first place.

If you have time, you can always help with unmaintained ports: http://qat.tecnik93.com/index.php?action=failed_buildports&maintainer=ports%40freebsd.org& or even maintained ones: http://qat.tecnik93.com/index.php?action=failed_buildports

Help us getting a good, stable package set for the release please,