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Re: Please update us about your GNU project
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John Darrington |
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Re: Please update us about your GNU project |
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Sat, 2 Jan 2021 02:48:37 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
Thanks for the message Paul.
Autoconf is certainly an important package, so I will see
what we can do about recruiting more developers.
Thanks and happy gnu year
John
On Fri, Jan 01, 2021 at 10:14:23AM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 1/1/21 9:40 AM, maintainers@gnu.org wrote:
>
> >* when did you make your last release?
>
> 2020-12-08 for Autoconf.
> 2020-11-14 for Bison.
> 2020-08-06 for the GNU C Library.
>
> You can check this by visiting ftp.gnu.org in the usual places.
>
> >* your plans for the next release?
>
> Shouldn't be long.
>
> >* any difficulties you are having and if you need help.
>
> Autoconf definitely needs more support; nobody has the time to
> maintain it. Thanks to Zack Weinberg we managed to get a new release
> out last year (after a hiatus of eight years) and there's likely to
> be a bugfix release soon, but after that there is still much more
> work to do and Zack lacks the time. Since Autoconf is a
> trailing-edge project I doubt whether unpaid volunteer work will
> suffice.
>
> >please confirm that your contact details are up to date
>
> I got the email, yes.
>