- I no longer have a hardware to do regular full pbulk builds from pkgsrc HEAD with DragonFly master. - I no longer have much time to care about either.
This doesn't mean that I'll will not do anything any more etc, but I don't have resources any more to care about pkgsrc for DragonFly community I did up to now. Also I think that some things need to change to preserve usability of pkgsrc at all for DragonFly users. - Official (signed?) regular pbulk builds. The current situation really isn't acceptable. I'd never use packages from random source updated randomly (no security updates). Really. - Public logs from all pbulk builds. The logs are there for reason. I don't see any in the avalon at the moment. How people should fix anything even if they care? - Using bug tracking systems for pkgsrc bugs. I'd recommend using NetBSD GNATS for bugs which are addressed to the pkgsrc committers à la "here is a patch to make package x/y build on DragonFly" and bugs.dragonflybsd.org for reports which need to be investigated by DragonFly developers (à la "the package x/y doesn't build or work on DragonFly"). Once again - it doesn't mean that I quit or smth. I still can take care of committing patches to the pkgsrc (you can kick me by mail if something is stucked in the GNATS), I will continue to maintain my packages and doing some general pkgsrc work. I just don't have a resources to continue the "fix as much of pkgsrc as possible" work I did up to now. But it also means that things will rotten quite fast in the pkgsrc. To preserve usability of the pkgsrc, the help from community is very much needed. -- Hasso Tepper
