The dust seems to have settled from the GCC repository conversion. I haven't seen any complaints about the conversion since it was finalized in January, so I'm gathering there have not been any significant problems with it.
Unfortunately, it left *me* with a problem. If you're on this list, more than likely you have a full-time job that pays you for working on open-source code. Twenty years ago I sold the business world on the value of open-source shared infrastructure, so you can partly thank me for the fact that you have that option. Ironically, I myself have benefitted very little from that successful persuasion, because the work I do is not closely enough tied to anything a corporation knows it can monetize. Who has a business case for developing something like reposurgeon? I spent most of a year - thousands of hours - focusing on the technical issues associated with the GCC conversion. Because I'm not on salary anywhere, paying bills and not having steady income during that time blew a pretty large hole in my savings account. Now my house needs a new roof, and I have medical bills, and things are looking rather grim. This wasn't the first public infrastructure project I've worked on, and it certainly won't be the last. Reposurgeon, GPSD, NTPsec, giflib - if you have found my work valuable and it gives you confidence that I will continue to do useful things, please subscribe at one of these places: https://www.subscribestar.com/esr https://www.patreon.com/esr Finally, be aware that I am not the only person inn this sort of situation. If you feel motivated to tackle the more general problem of load-bearing Internet people without salaries, please look at http://loadsharers.org take the pledge, and find two load-bearers to support who aren't me. -- <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>
