Greetings.
Traffic and activity on the list got pretty hot over the summer.
Good discussions about underlining, Betrand's automake migration
nearly completed, and Bernd's Herculean labours tackling manpage
updates, licensing, copyrights, and a whole whack of other annoying
but essential details.
As mentioned, I'm starting this thread to see if we can get together
a list of who's doing what currently, where their interests lie,
etc. If others follow my lead, we'll end up with a useful snapshot
of available human resources within the groff community.
Here's what I bring to the table.
Hello Peter!
> Out of that discussion came Doug's excellent suggestion for a new
> primitive, '.decor' or similarly named, that's extensible so various
> kinds of decoration can be applied to text, not just underlining
> (which, IMO, groff seriously needs). [...]
Such suggestions or feature re
Feel free to use inside the groff project in any way you like,
including republishing and including in official lists,
but please don't change the content without speaking to me.
Ingo Schwarze:
Projects/components
- maintainer
Hi Peter,
Peter Schaffter wrote on Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 05:31:38PM -0400:
> The addition of useful new requests is part of our mission
> statement, and Doug's '.decor' fits the bill. Problem is, the
> thread died, and nothing came of it.
Well, even if a morsel fits the bill, there is no guarant
Wow! Don't we hate project management! :) Looks like the word "ETA" caused
much heartburn.
Let me explain what I meant when was talking offline with Peter.
I hate processes as much as the next engineer but we do need some structure
if we are to let more people in.
I think, currently there is a lot
>With respect to Vaibhaw's candidacy as maintainer, I propose leaving
>the "looking for a new maintainer" notice on the webpage until the
>matter is definitively settled. (If everyone's agreeable, I'll take
>ownership of the webpage.)
Yes, we should keep looking; to find Gotham the hero that it n
