Re: automake 1.17 release plan?

Hi Karl,
thanks for you ongoing work on Automake! It is sad to see you have to 
push this alone. I totally understand that you have other obligations 
and interests.

I think I cannot help with the open bug. I hope other can chip in and 
support Automake.

> P.S. BTW, did something happen somewhere that prompted you to send this?
> I ask because another person wrote me off-list today with the same
> question. Seems a bit much for coincidence.

I am not part of a coordinated approach. I recently took part in the 
openSuse's packaging of autoconf 2.72, CMake 3.29, and Ninja 1.12. 
Automake 1.17 remained in the back of my head to be close to a release.

In general I advocate projects to migrate away from Autotools. I know 
this won't happen for the GNU stack (like flex, GCC, GDB) and other 
software at least for another decade. So we need to maintain Autotools 
and keep pace with recently accelerated development of C and stricter 
rules enforced by GCC 14 and Clang 16.
As a packager I wished to get more frequent releases for libtool, m4, 
flex to reduce the number of compatibility issues and deprecation 
warnings in packages relying on Autotools.

Bye
Christoph