Re: [Groff] Trying to understand groff development and release model

2008-12-26 Thread Halim Issa
On Friday 26 December 2008 19:59:55 Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > Basically what is needed is to upgrade all the source headers from > > GPL2 to the following text: > > > > This file is part of groff. > > > > groff is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it > > under the ter

Re: [Groff] Trying to understand groff development and release model

2008-12-26 Thread Halim Issa
On Monday 22 December 2008 19:18:15 Werner LEMBERG wrote: > You could update all copyright notices from GPL2 to GPL3. This is > something which should be done before the release, and which is > completely non-technical. This would be indeed a great help! Sure thing - since I'm new to this I just

Re: [Groff] Trying to understand groff development and release model

2008-12-16 Thread Halim Issa
Hi Werner, On Monday 15 December 2008 14:13:53 Werner LEMBERG wrote: > It should be released as soon as possible, I fully agree. > Unfortunately, it's only me who is working on groff, and I can't > afford enough time to really come to the point where I can > wholeheartily say `it's time to do a re

[Groff] Trying to understand groff development and release model

2008-12-15 Thread Halim Issa
All, I've been searching the mailing list archives and wikis to try to understand why there has been no groff release for years, while during the same time what seems like a lot of useful commits have been done to the source code. I am sure there are good reasons from the core developers to dev