Congrats, Branden! [1] https://xkcd.com/149/
Fixed that for you: [image: sandwich.png] On Sat, 31 Aug 2024 at 08:26, G. Branden Robinson < g.branden.robin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi folks, > > Bertrand and I have heard back from the GNU maintainers team. As of > yesterday, they have offered me the maintainer role for groff and I have > communicated my acceptance. > > I haven't received notification of any changed "permission bits" or > anything else, and don't expect to immediately, so for now I do not > regard anything as having logistically changed; if we needed to tag and > push groff 1.24.0.rc1 tomorrow, Bertrand would have to do it. > > Nevertheless we seem to be into the procedural, rather than the social, > part of the handover process, so I thought I'd let the community know. > > I don't expect to update the groff web page with my changed status until > I can "exercise maintainerly powers", as it were.[1] > > Regards, > Branden > > [1] https://xkcd.com/149/ > > I had a more apropos cartoon in mind, involving a ghost flying out > of a computer monitor and a caption reading "rootly powers", that is > at least 20 years old (a co-worker used to have it on his office > door), but I could not find it in a web search. Oh well. > > Maybe it was from Nemeth et al.'s Unix sysadmin book... >
