I am part of the pkgsrc releng (release engineering) team. My main task there is handling pull-ups into the stable branch. pkgsrc creates a stable branch every three months and names it after the respective quarter – for example, the last branch was called 2019Q4. Pull-ups are tickets to “pull up” one or more commit from the development branch into the stable branch. Typical justifications for pull-ups are: security updates build fixes important bug fixes (such as when the package crash...
