The pkgsrc tree is now in freeze for the upcoming 2017Q1 branch. The exact branch time is TBD depending on how things seem, but will be sometime from March 27-31. The exact rules for freeze have varied per branch, particularly over the last few years. This time, the guidelines for changes are essentially the same set of changes that are appropriate for pullup requests to the stable branch: build fixes, security fixes, and micro version updates that contain security fixes. The assistance of everyone in the pkgsrc community is appreciated in testing pkgsrc to ensure a quality branch. Things people can do to help include: Update to pkgsrc HEAD and build the packages that you use on your platform. Whether you use pbulk bulk builds (perhaps with the shiny new pkg_comp 2.0), pkg_rolling-replace, pkg_chk, or just manually build things, all testing is useful. Please report issues to pkgsrc-users%netbsd.org@localhost. (If you have an analysis of what's wrong and a suggested fix, please feel free to use tech-pkg@.) Set up bulk builds with reporting to pkgsrc-bulk. While this kind of help is more longer term, the freeze is a great time to start doing bulk builds. Bootstrap pkgsrc on platforms you have available, especially less common platforms and architectures (other than NetBSD, Illumos, OS X, Linux). While pkgsrc very likely still works fine on other platforms, if it doesn't, we want to know as soon as possible. Thanks, Greg
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