Hi Branden, On mar., juil. 30 2024 at 06:44:42 , "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've heard back from Bertrand Garrigues, and he advised that I start the > hand-off process for GNU maintainership of the groff package/project. > > I have consequently contacted maintainers@gnu to initiate that process. > Neither of us have a clear idea how long it will take, but he seemed > confident that it wouldn't resemble an overnight procedure.
Yes it should take a bit of time, > > Bertrand agreed that a 1/year cadence for groff releases sounded good, > and said he'd be available to perform maintainer duties (mainly release > management for 1.24.0 later this year) as long as they were (in my own > wording) no more burdensome than those he had to handle for the groff > 1.23.0 release. This is doable for me, although not immediately (I'm starting my summer vacations...) > Bertrand's contributions of (1) migration to GNU Automake for our build > system, (2) inclusion of gnulib as a C portability library, and (3) > inauguration of an automated test suite for the code base have in my > estimation delivered major benefits to the maintainability of groff; all > were strongly forward-looking choices not necessarily easily appreciated > directly by users. The test harness alone has ensured that many > bugs and mistakes never landed in the Git repository in the first place. > > As a developer, I would have found groff much less approachable and far > more frustrating had it not been for Bertrand's improvements. > > Bertrand has been quiet for a while but his positive impact on groff is > unmistakable to a software engineer's eyes. > > I hope you will join me in thanking him for his excellent work. Thanks a lot for you kind words. My work on the knuth-plass branch is also interesting, I hope some day I can finish it (although it's quite challenging to connect my code to the existing code base). Regards, Bertrand
