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Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 06:56:53 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] ports 2014Q2 branched
From: "Chris H" <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com>
To: "Baptiste Daroussin" <bapt@freebsd.org>
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> 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
>
A big +1 on this! IMHO l-o-o-n-g over due. Thanks Bapt!

--Chris