New 2017Q1 branch

[Julian Elischer]

On 2/01/2017 10:39 PM, Mathieu Arnold wrote:

can we ask the server admins to not delete the 1016Q4 pkg collection 
immediately?
it is stable and works while 2017Q1 is not yet in that state.

> 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,
>