Re: Please update us about your GNU project

[John Darrington]

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.
>