Re: Automake maintenance

[Mathieu Lirzin]

Hi,

Thomas Martitz <address@hidden> writes:

> Am 03.01.2017 um 21:24 schrieb Stefano Lattarini:
>>
>>> On the other hand, any maintainer is better than no maintainer.
>>>
>> Absolutely! Even just having someone operating in maintenance mode
>> would be far better than the current status, in which even the most basic
>> patches, typofixes and bug reports get ignored.
>>
>>> Since my dayjob depends on Automake I could probably devote some
>>> small but fixed amount of time to Automake maintenance.
>>>
>>> Best regards.
>>>
>>
>> Thank you for your interest and patience.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>     Stefano
>>
>
> Okay. So I'm wondering about two more things:
>
> 1) What implications does it have to be a maintainer of a GNU
> package. I'm not otherwise connected to GNU. I have completed the
> copyright paperwork for this patch. What other implications or
> requirements are there?
>
> 2) How do you make releases? (preparations in git, where/how to upload
> the tarball, signing the tarball)

Here is a quick introduction for new maintainer:

  https://www.gnu.org/software/maintainer-tips

The following link extensively document most of the questions you might
have regarding GNU and the release process:

  https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html

For Automake specific release process, you can take a look at HACKING in
the repo.

Best regards.

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Mathieu Lirzin
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