Another long-time contributor bites the dust. Thanks to his involvement with various Python, web, and math related ports, we have decided to punish him in the usual manner. He will be co-mentored by alexbl and clsung.
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New ports committer: David Thiel
Posted by erwin
on November 28, 2006
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When do people learn not to send too many PRs? David Thiel made the classic mistake and received his usual punishment applied by Edwin, who will mentor him. Wish him luck!
New portmgr member: Pav Lucistnik
Posted by erwin
on November 23, 2006
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Portmgr is pleased to announce that Pav Lucistnik has accepted the
challenge of being a portmgr member. Pav has been with the project for
a long time and is one of our most active committers and bug busters.
He has been working on the ports infrastructure and will now be working
with the other portmgr members on integrating infrastructure patches
and quality assurance in addition to other portmgr tasks.
Wish him luck!
3 new ports committers
Posted by erwin
on November 6, 2006
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It seems our precious committers got very restless during the freeze and all of 3 new people were proposed for a commit bit. 3 is a lucky number, they say, and it certainly seems so for all 3 were given a commit bit today. Please welcome Jeremy Chadwick, Frank Lazslo and Babak Farrokhi to the ranks of the ports committers!
OpenFest 2006 over and out
Posted by erwin
on November 6, 2006
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The last two days I attended the bulgarian gathering of open sourcerers, OpenFest, in Sofia. Set in an old-style building in the city center, it was nice walking around between the bulgarian open source, and especially the BSD, crowd. Unfortunately, I was one of two non-bulgarians, so most of the talks were in bulgarian and I didn’t attend many. I had the doubtful honour of opening the BSD track of the conference at the ungodly hour of 11am, but people seemed happy with my talk anyway. A big thanks to the organizers for having me around, and hopefully they can attract some more foreigners next year and more talks in english.
OpenFest and EuroBSDCon
Posted by erwin
on November 1, 2006
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It’s time for the yearly conferences again. In less then 24 hours, I’ll be on my way to OpenFest which will be held in Sofia, Bulgaria. I’m still not quite sure what happened, but Peter Pentchev somehow talked me into talking a bit about OSS project management – People, Teams, Roles, Hats from a portmgr viewpoint.
Next week it will be on to Milan, Italy, for EuroBSDCon. Both Mark Linimon and me will be there as portmgr members, so I guess one of us will have to sing and dance a bit at the devsummit, but after that I can just sit back and enjoy the ride, or talks in this case.
Ports tree thawed
Posted by erwin
on November 1, 2006
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As most people will already have noticed, the ports tree is no longer frozen. This has led to an enormous flood of build up fury and several hundreds of updates have already gone into the tree within one day. However, until the release is out, the tree is not completely open for any commit, so called ports slush. Sweeping changes (see definition) are not allowed until after 6.2 release is out the door.
Ports will stay frozen for a few more days
Posted by erwin
on October 24, 2006
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The ports tree will remain frozen for a few more days to fix some last minute errors that have popped up. Please bear with us and have some more patience.
Ports freeze extended to October 24th
Posted by erwin
on October 18, 2006
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To fix some more fallout from the GNOME import and as there will be an
extra BETA release as well, portmgr has decided to extend the ports
freeze by one week. This puts the start of the ports thaw at October
24th.
So far, a lot of fixes have been committed to ports that were broken
before and therefore not included in the release. Keep it up!
What to do during the freeze
Posted by erwin
on October 11, 2006
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To quote the words of Kris Kennaway:
” Hi all,
Some of you might be feeling bored during the freeze, so please
consider checking out:
http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/i386-6-latest/
http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/amd64-6-latest/
and working on some of the ~200 port failures listed there. Some of
them have been fixed since these builds, but many of them have been
broken for months but require only trivial fixes.
Kris”