Hi all, I am pleased to announce that we have created the 2014Q2 branch of the ports tree. Because the first 2014Q1 branch was experimental you might not have heard of it yet. January 2014 saw the release of the first quaterly branch, intended at providing a stable and high-quality ports tree. Those stable branches are a snapshot of the head ports tree taken every 3 months and currently supported for three months, during which they receive security fixes as well as build and runtime fixes. Packages are built on regular basis on that branch (weekly) and published as usual via pkg.FreeBSD.org (/quarterly instead of the usual /latest). They are signed the same way the /latest branch is. While packages for 2014Q1 were only built for 10 (i386 and amd64) 2014Q2 will be built for both FreeBSD 9 and 10 (i386 and amd64). The first build of 2014Q2 will started this morning (wednesday at 1 am UTC) and should hit your closest mirrors very soon. On behalf of the port management team Bapt
Quoth Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at FreeBSD.org>:> > January 2014 saw the release of the first quaterly branch, intended at > providing a stable and high-quality ports tree. Those stable branches > are a snapshot of the head ports tree taken every 3 months and > currently supported for three months, during which they receive > security fixes as well as build and runtime fixes.This is really good news. I don't know who is in charge of the ports mirror on github, but if it would be possible to mirror these branches as well that would be really helpful. I switched to using git for my ports tree a while ago, because I have some local modifications and I find it much easier to maintain them in git than to fight with svn. Ben