Excellent news! I think lagging behind ports-master won't be too great a burden, as long as the sync-up is done on a regular basis.
What's involved in keeping the repo sync'ed with ports-master anyways? I'm not much of a coder anymore, but maybe I could help with something like that. Cheers, DMK On 31/05/2017 04:10, Tobias C. Berner wrote: > Hi there > > The development repository that the KDE-FreeBSD team uses to work on the KDE > ports for FreeBSD is moving to github. For a long time we have been using > 'area51', an SVN repository kindly hosted by PC-BSD and iX Systems. At this > point in time, we believe that moving to github will make the ports a bit > more accessible for users and align our ports-development effort better with > the the way upstream (that is, with official FreeBSD ports) works. We > would like to express our thanks to PC-BSD for hosting us all this time, > in particular Josh Paetzel for administering the repository. In the coming > days we will be updating documentation to reflect the new source of > KDE-FreeBSD ports. > > > The repository can now be found at > https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports-kde > where the plasma5 branch is a ports tree with all the updates from the > old svn repository. > > > The main difference between the old svn repository and the new one is, that > like gnome@ and xorg@, we now have a complete portstree. So the kdemerge > script > previously used is obsolete -- however, this also mean, that we will lag > behind > ports-master, which we will try to sync with every weekend. > > > > > mfg Adriaan, Raphael, Tobias >
