Re: sed: suggestions for sed release-management

[Paolo Bonzini]

Regarding the website, I'll do some (minor) improvements.

> 4) The manpage should mention the symlink problem regarding '-i'.

First, it is not a problem, it's a feature.  Second, the manpage is
directly generated from the --help output (plus the description of the
commands).  It correctly points out that the main source of
documentation is info.

> 5) Releases. The last stable release is sed-4.1.5 from 2006-02-03.
> That's more than 3 years ago. Please consider providing new stable
> releases more regularly. If you think it's not "stable as in stable"
> yet these days, than providing release candidates might be an option.

sed is very close to the next release, which will touch more or less
every point that you mention.  I fixed a couple of known bugs in
January, and will probably start asking for wide testing in 2-3 weeks.
4.2 will be considered mature.  After it stabilizes, I don't plan to
make any additional minor release (only bugfixes) and the git repository
will always be stable.

Paolo