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Here’s the third edition of the “discussions with a NetBSD developer” series. This time, imil spoke to S.P. Zeidler, admin and member of pkgsrc-releng.

The questions:

• For the readers who don’t know you, can you shortly introduce yourself ?
• Why did you choose to run NetBSD ? How long have you been using it ?
• How did you become a NetBSD developer ?
• Do you have an idea of the time you spend working on the NetBSD project daily, weekly, monthly ?
• What is the job of a NetBSD admin ? How many admins are there ? How do you work alltogether ? How do you share the tasks you have to do ?
• What is the hardware infrastructure of the NetBSD project, in terms of hardware and software ? Where are they located?
• As part of the pkgsrc-releng team, can you tell us more about the way pkgsrc releases are organised ? How is a release tested / validated ?
• You told us there were no fun retro arch in the machines administered by the project. I’m wondering then how are pkgsrc releases built (if they are) for those retro archs ? Are the pkgsrc releases cross-compiled ? Provided by third-parties ? Not built ? Does it work the same way for NetBSD releases by themselves ? Are all
• the “fun retro” archs versions cross-compiled ?
• In your professional environment, do you work with NetBSD ? How do you think we should promote NetBSD for wider use within companies ?

For the answer for the above questions, go here (blog.netbsd.org)

• As a conclusion, can you tell us how you forecast NetBSD future ?