The Ports Management Team

Ports Slush is now in over

tabthorpe — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:18:57 +0000

Just to make it official, the ports slush is over.

Ports committers are now able to perform regular updates, business as usual, no need for portmgr@ approvals.

Ports Slush is now in effect

tabthorpe — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:10:00 +0000

Just to make it official, the ports hard freeze has been lifted.

Ports committers are now able to perform regular updates, just no sweeping
commits without prior approval from portmgr. This period of slush will
continue until 8.4 is out the door.

FreeBSD Ports tree has been tagged with RELEASE_7_EOL

tabthorpe — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 17:25:04 +0000

The FreeBSD Ports Management Team wishes to remind users that February 28 was the end of support for the Ports Collection for both FreeBSD 7.4 RELEASE and the FreeBSD 7.x STABLE branch. Neither the infrastructure nor individual ports are guaranteed to work on these FreeBSD versions after that date. A tag has be created for users who cannot upgrade for some reason, at which time these users are advised to stop tracking the latest ports repository and use the RELEASE_7_EOL tag instead.

linimon steps down from portmgr

tabthorpe — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 04:09:42 +0000

Mark Linimon, aka linimon@, recently stepped down from his duties on the FreeBSD Ports Management Team.

Mark joined the team back in 2004, providing nine years of continuity to the Ports Infrastructure. Among the many things Mark did, was maintaining and documenting the current portbuild system that the team uses for -exp runs and package building. With his other bugbuster@ hat on, he played middle man contacting maintainers of BROKEN and DEPRECATED ports.

On behalf of the Ports Management team, we would like to thank Mark for his many years of service and dedication, his contributions will be greatly missed.

Thomas

on behalf of portmgr@

Ports CVS EoL on February 28th 2013

tabthorpe — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 04:43:57 +0000

As announced in September the ports tree will no longer be exported to CVS after February 28th 2013. All users who still use CVS, CVSup or csup to update the ports tree are encouraged to switch to portsnap(8) or for users which need more control over their ports collection to use Subversion directly.

Read more at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports-announce/2013-January/000049.html

FreeBSD 9.1 ports freeze is officially over

tabthorpe — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 20:00:13 +0000

Just to make it officially official, the ports feature freeze has been lifted.

Ports committers are now entitled to perform sweeping commits. Keep in mind that -exp runs are always a good idea if you think there is a significant change to the ports tree.

And just remember, PLEASE TRY TO NOT BREAK THE INDEX!

Thomas
on behalf of portmgr@

Portscout Notification Emails

tabthorpe — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 18:52:59 +0000

Greetings porters!

As many of you are aware, an instance of portscout is available on
http://portscout.freebsd.org/

Read more at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports-announce/2012-November/000047.html

decke@ joins portmgr@

tabthorpe — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 15:28:17 +0000

The FreeBSD Ports Management team is pleased to welcome Bernhard Froelich, aka decke@, to it’s ranks.

Bernhard was a long time ports contributor, and received his ports commit bit back in March 2010.

More recently, Bernhard was the one responsible for bringing us Redports.org shared tinderbox.

Please join me in welcoming decke@ to the team.

Thomas
on behalf of portmgr@

pav@ steps down from portmgr@

tabthorpe — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 15:25:36 +0000

Pav Lucistnik, aka pav@, recently stepped down from his roll on the FreeBSD Ports Management team.

Pav started on portmgr back in November 2006, he was the one responsible for many of the -exp runs over the years. His most dubious claim to fame was talking over the responsibility of krismails. We all looked forwward to our pavmails, right?

On behalf of the Ports Management team, we want to thank Pav for his years of service, he will be missed.
Thomas
on behalf of portmgr@

Ports Feature Freeze for 9.1

tabthorpe — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 19:41:24 +0000

FreeBSD 9.1 RC2 has been pulicly announced, it is now time for the the Ports Feature Freeze.

Normal upgrade, new ports, and changes that do not affect other ports will be allowed without prior approval, but with the extra

Feature safe: yes

tag in the commit message. Any commit that is sweeping, that is, touches a large number of ports, infrastructural changes, commits to ports with unusually high number of dependencies, and any other commit that requires the rebuilding of many packages will not be allowed without prior explicit approval from portmgr@.

Check out http://www.freebsd.org/portmgr/implementation.html#sweeping_changes for what constiutes a sweeping change.
Thomas
on behalf of portmgr@