Just in time to have their commit bits gift wrapped for Christmas, Juergen Lock and Dryice Liu have joined the ranks of the ports committers after way too many PRs. Merry Christmas and happy committing to both of them!

Gábor has been working for some time on our ports collection, especially working on the ports infrastructure during his Google Summer of Code project this summer.  His biggest mistake was to keep working and lately has been cleaning up a lot in old and abandoned projects to deprecate those ports so that they can either get the attention they need from a new maintainer that can find where the project has moved, or be removed from the ports tree.  All his work has now been punished with a ports commit bit and to make matters worse, I’m his mentor.  He’ll need all the luck he can get!

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.

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!

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!

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!

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.

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.

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!

From today 12:00 UTC, the ports tree is frozen in preparation for the 6.2 release cycle. See an earlier post for schedule and policy for what kind of commits are allowed. Everyone is encouraged to fix broken ports or ports that don’t build on the pointyhat cluster.