Renato Botelho found yet another very active submitter and applied the usual punishment. Please welcome Robert Noland to the ranks of the ports committers!

Philip has been working on apache for a long time and has been increasingly interesting in FreeBSD as well. Marcelo Araujo finally stepped in and made him commit his own patches. Philip is going to be a great addition to our ports team!

Yet another guy that just keeps sending patches. At least until now, when Beech Rintoul is starting to mentor him with his own commit bit. Welcome aboard!

As of June 1, 2008 00:00:00 UTC, FreeBSD 5.X support in the ports tree
is End Of Life. This means that a ports tree checked out after this
date is not guaranteed to produce usable packages on 5.X. Additionally,
5.X package builds on the cluster will cease. Users are encouraged to
upgrade to 6.3 or 7.0 if they wish to continue to track the latest ports
tree.

A tag, RELEASE_5_EOL, has been laid down to mark the last point in the
ports tree that officially supported FreeBSD 5.X. Port Manager asks
that you not rush to remove 5.X support right away as we’d like a
settling-down period, and we want secteam to have a chance to make their
EOL announcements as well.

With both FreeBSD 6.3 and 7.0 out, the older releases of the 6.x branch, 6.1 and 6.2, and the legacy 5.5 release will no longer be supported by the FreeBSD Security Team. Also, ports infrastructure will no longer be supported on the 5.x branch. Start planning your upgrades rather sooner than later!

On May 31st, FreeBSD 5.5, FreeBSD 6.1, and FreeBSD 6.2 will have reached
their End of Life and will no longer be supported by the FreeBSD Security
Team. Since FreeBSD 5.5 is the last remaining supported release from the
FreeBSD 5.x stable branch, support for the FreeBSD 5.x stable branch will
also cease at the same point. Users of any of these FreeBSD releases are
strongly encouraged to upgrade to either FreeBSD 6.3 or FreeBSD 7.0 before
that date.

Please note that the End of Life dates for FreeBSD 5.5 and FreeBSD 6.1
were announced in May 2006; and the End of Life for FreeBSD 6.2, which
was originally announced as January 31, 2008, has been extended by four
months in order to allow time for users to upgrade.

The FreeBSD Ports Management Team wishes to inform users that May 31st (the
security team’s End-Of-Support date for FreeBSD 5.x) will also be the end
of support for the Ports Collection on both 5.5-RELEASE and the 5-STABLE
branch. Neither the infrastructure nor individual ports are guaranteed to
work on these FreeBSD versions after that date. A CVS tag will be created
for users who cannot upgrade for some reason; as of that commit, these users
are advised to stop tracking the latest ports CVS repository and instead
stay with the version as of that tag.

Full announcement.

Portmgr is pleased to announce that Florent Thoumie has accepted the challenge of being a portmgr member. Florent has been with the project for a long time and is one of our most active committers. Amongst other things, he was one of the people that worked on the complete overhaul of the X11 infrastructure with the Xorg 7.2 upgrade.
He will join the other portmgr members on integrating infrastructure patches and quality assurance in addition to other portmgr tasks.

Wish him luck!

It happened again. After sending more than 250 PRs, it was not to be avoided and my former mentee Gabor stepped up, together with araujo as co-mentor, to punish Felippe de Meirelles Motta (AKA lippe) with a ports commit bit. Keep up the good work, all three of you!

Martin Wilke not only spends a lot of time on fixing ports and closing PRs, but also has time to look for new blood and found some. Pietro Cerutti sent too many PRs and got the appropriate punishment. Welcome!

Philippe sent, amongst others, a large amount of fixes for the new GCC 4.2 version of the compiler, which did not go unnoticed. Thomas Abthorpe and Thierry Thomas have therefore decided to duely punish him for it with a FreeBSD port commit bit. Welcome aboard, Philippe!

A bit late for a Christmas present, of course completely planned so I did not have to bother giftwrapping it, Wesley Shields was punished with a ports commit bit today. Renato Botelho (garga) will be the executioner, and I’m sure he’ll think twice before saying “ni!” this time, or even try to send more patches. Good luck to the both of them!