New 2017Q1 branch

[Mathieu Arnold]

Hi,

The 2017Q1 branch has been created. It means that the next update on the
quarterly packages will be on the 2017Q1 branch.

A lot of things happened in the last three months:
- pkg 1.9.4
- New USES: lxqt, varnish
- Default version of GCC switched to 4.8 to 4.9
- Default version of Perl switched to 5.20 to 5.24
- Default version of Python 3 switched to 3.4 to 3.5
- New default version, Varnish at 4
- Firefox 50.1.0
- Firefox-esr 45.6.0
- Chromium 54.0.2840.100
- Ruby 2.1.0, 2.2.6 and 2.3.3
- gcc 4.9.4
- Gnome 3.18.0
- KDE 4.14.3
- Xorg 7.7

Next quarterly package builds will start in the next couple of days and
should be available on your closest mirrors few days later.

For those stat nerds out there, here's what happened during the last 3 months on head:
Number of commits: 6871
Number of committers:      161
Most active committers:
1049  sunpoet
 538  amdmi3
 404  jbeich
 305  swills
 200  antoine
 180  wen
 180  mat
 166  marino
 159  pi
 158  linimon
Diffstat: 18409 files changed, 419461 insertions(+), 234188 deletions(-)

and on the 2016Q4 branch:
Number of commits: 290
Number of committers:       51
Most active committers:
  67  jbeich
  31  feld
  12  junovitch
  11  antoine
  10  tijl
   9  tz
   9  riggs
   8  koobs
   8  ehaupt
   8  cpm
Diffstat: 1090 files changed, 56829 insertions(+), 16225 deletions(-)

Regards,

-- 
Mathieu Arnold
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