Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 17:31:50 +1100 (EST) From: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> To: archie@whistle.com (Archie Cobbs) Cc: asami@cs.berkeley.edu, committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports tree FROZEN now Message-ID: <199812010631.RAA03547@cimlogic.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199812010613.WAA25515@bubba.whistle.com> from Archie Cobbs at "Nov 30, 98 10:13:12 pm"
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Archie Cobbs wrote: > Satoshi Asami writes: > > The ports tree is in the pre-release "freeze" state now. From now > > until the final release of 2.2.8, all the commits to the ports tree > > has to be approved by me. > > Hmm.. it would be nice if it were possible to "lock" a subtree of > the CVS repository, perhaps by sticking a file ".cvs-lock" or > something directly in the corresponding repository directory.. > then CVS could check for this file and, if found, return an > error and print out the file when a commit was attempted.. > > Thoughts? How would you allow authorised people to commit? No point locking out the release engineer/s too. 8-) -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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