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Re: Please update us about your GNU project
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Carlos O'Donell |
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Re: Please update us about your GNU project |
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Sat, 2 Jan 2021 12:36:25 -0500 |
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On 1/1/21 1:14 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
>> * any difficulties you are having and if you need help.
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> 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.
Paul, Thank you for everything you do for the GNU Toolchain.
As a trustee of the "GNU Toolchain" fund at the FSF I worked to fund
Zack and Changeset Consulting's work to support Autoconf. I consider
it a high value project to support and because of that the fund put
money where it identified a need.
I agree with your evaluation of the situation.
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Cheers,
Carlos.