Re: GNU sed 4.2.2 released, and a rant from the maintainer

John Cowan <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.utils.bugs,gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.gnu.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Paolo Bonzini scripsit:

> I am less pleased to announce that I am resigning from maintenance of
> GNU sed (after 8 years) as well as GNU grep (after 3).

If no new maintainer can be found, and especially for sed, I hope you
will fork the projects.  Forking is a last resort, but it has been known
to get the FSF's attention.

> I didn't resign commit access for two projects only: GCC and GNU
> Smalltalk.  I still have not decided what to do about GNU Smalltalk.

Now that Squeak and Pharo are FSF-free, I do not think it makes sense to
put a lot of investment into GNU Smalltalk.  It can always be forked if
someone wants to do something truly innovative with it.

-- 
Go, and never darken my towels again!           John Cowan
        --Rufus T. Firefly                      http://ccil.org/~cowan
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