Hi folks, I'm happy to report that I've been in touch with our GNU maintainer, Bertrand. He's facing an email backlog, but I think I was able to bring him up to speed.
Here is part of what I told him. > The long, detailed version is here: > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2023-06/msg00006.html > > The short version is that we had modest gains in portability > successes, and things look great for GNU/Linux systems, but we had no > big gains on proprietary systems relative to RC3. However, probably > the most important of those, macOS, we continue to build successfully > on. [...] > Yes, I would vote for tagging master as final. I have made nothing > but documentation changes, but quite a bit of those (nearly 200 > commits). [...] As far as I know, all you need to do is: > 1. Cherry-pick any fixes you feel are important, or tell me to, if > any. I identified ten candidates in the long email above. None > seem critical to me and I am willing to proceed to final without > them. > 2. Run the update-copyright.sh script. > 3. Update the printf in src/roff/groff/groff.cpp to year 2023. > 4. make distcheck > 5. git tag 1.23.0 > 6. Sign and upload the archive and detached signature to the main GNU > upload site instead of alpha. > 7. Ping me so I can send the announcement mail. :) Regards, Branden
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