One up for the danish world domination team! Please welcome Søren Straarup to the ranks of the ports committers. tmclaugh and garga thought it was time to punish him for his activity in irc and plenty of patches to python and windowmaker related ports. Wish him luck!

In preparation for the 6.2 release, the ports tree will be frozen from October 10. No commits will be allowed without explicit portmgr approval. We hope we can keep the freeze short and go into slush after one week. The tree will be completely unfrozen after the release is announced. For the full schedule, see the release schedule.

As always, only commit that fix existing breakage will be allowed during the freeze and we encourage everyone will help fix as many ports as possible for this release. For more information about what kinds of commits are allowed during which period, please see the portmgr policies webpage.

Just in time for the ports freeze, sem proposed to punish Stanislav Sedov for his many PRs, especially about ruby, ocaml and, if that isn’t enough, e17. Please welcome Stanislav to the ranks of the ports committers, and let’s hope he has enough patience during the freeze :)

If I’m not mistaken, we have gotten our first peruvian committer. Please welcome Jose Alonso Cardenas Marquez to the ranks of the ports committers!

While we’re still waiting for OpenOffice.org to compile in the last run, linimon compiled the next set of patches for testing on pointyhat. This will also include the first results of the Summer of Code project on the ports infrastructure. The following patches are scheduled for testing:
89398: [PATCH] bsd.wx.mk and patches
92445: current-us [patch] change all bogus uses of BROKEN to IGNORE
93601: new feature: make missing
98105: new feature: IA32_BINARY_PORT macro
98206: bsd.port.mk – whitespace and CHECKSUM_ALGO fix
98565: Add PKGVERSION to bsd.port.mk
98731: add bsd.scons.mk to Mk/
98891: bsd.port.mk: Fix DESKTOP_ENTRIES processing on 4.x
99370: USE_LDCONFIG fails installation for non-default prefix

It seems to be a good month for new committers and hopefully they’ll spend they whole summer on our dear ports. Today I’m happy to hand Rong-En Fan a commit bit with Xin Li as his mentor. Yet another one for our perl team. Welcome!

And another one bites the dust. Boris Samorodov has been doing extensive work on the linux emulation parts in ports, including the recent upgrade to fc4, and on other emulation@ ports as well. This could not go unpunished! Let’s hope he can do even more work with his shiny new commit bit.

In what must have been the fastest vote ever on portmgr, in under 4 hours Martin Wilke was punished for all his good deeds and several hundred PRs. Maybe someday we’ll have more committers than ports….

It looks like spring is a good time for growing committer as they are popping up all around. Today I have the pleasure to welcome Shaun Amott to the ranks of the ports committers. Wish him luck, there are enough PRs for him to start his career on :)

Why do people never learn? Andrew Pantyukhin also sent way too many patches and has now been punished with a ports commit bit. Welcome to the team, Andrew!