Hi Branden, On Sat, Oct 10 2020 at 08:56:49 PM, "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robin...@gmail.com> wrote: > We have a formal expression of interest in a new release. > > https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?59216 > > Bertrand, do you think you will be available to serve as release > engineer, or do we need to solicit interest in the role?
I don't have much time to make large changes in the code base (my Knuth-Plass work is unfortunately in standby now), but for a release it should not be a problem, I'll do it. > If anyone feels we haven't yet satisfied some technical goal that we > should have accomplished before branding something "1.22.5", please > speak up now. All the "heavy" tasks like #40717, #40716 obviously won't be there in a near future so it's a good time to make a new release. > I have some things I'd like to accomplish before a release[1], but > based on my experience with groff 1.22.4, I don't think they'd > interfere a beta or release-candidate cycle. I will push a fix for #55334 during the beta cycle, I don't have other fix in mind. > As far as I know, the tree is in pretty good shape. I've learned to > "make distcheck", but my development machine is pretty vanilla--x86-64 > running a Debian-based distro. 'make distcheck' works fine for me too (Archlinux-based distro). If no one oppose to it I should be able to push a release candidate tag in the next couple of days. Regards, Bertrand