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)
If you think I'm qualified I can try become the maintainer, but please
don't expect lots of new features any time, since I'd be operating
mostly in bare maintenance mode (and I haven't seen the majority of the
code base yet).
Best regards.
