FreeBSD 9.1 ports feature freeze
July 25, 2012 by tabthorpe · Leave a Comment
The FreeBSD 9.1 schedule has been published, http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.1R/schedule.html. Historically we have done a Feature Freeze at RC1, we are going to try do it with RC2 this time, tentatively scheduled for August 3, subject to schedule slippage.
At the time the the Release Engineering team announces RC2 is ready, we will then enforce “Feature Safe” commits only. This means no sweeping changes will be allowed, see http://www.freebsd.org/portmgr/implementation.html#sweeping_changes
Once portmgr@ is satisfied that the requisite packages are built to ship with FreeBSD 9.1, the ports tree will be re-opened for business.
Thomas
on behalf of portmgr
Ports tree has been migrated to Subversion
July 16, 2012 by tabthorpe · 3 Comments
The migration to Subversion is done and the SVN->CVS exporter is running.
Before committing please read the Ports Subversion Primer, http://wiki.freebsd.org/PortsSubversionPrimer. Please feel to add missing parts of fix it if something is wrong.
For those who like to mirror the repository, the svn mirror seed will be available in /pub/FreeBSD/development/subversion/ on a mirror near you. First places it will likely be are http://freebsd.isc.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/subversion/ and http://ftp.dk.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/subversion/. Be aware that the uncompressed repository is about 14GB.
Many thanks to simon@ for all the work he did this weekend to make the switch happen!
Two members of portmgr@ elected to core@
The FreeBSD Ports Management team is pleased to announce two members of the team have been elected to core@.
Congratulations to Martin Wilke miwi@, and Thomas Abthorpe tabthorpe@ on the appointment.
The official announcement can be found at http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=0+0+current/freebsd-announce