On 10/12/19 4:13 PM, Noah Misch wrote: > On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 03:09:16PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: >> How about if I turn the crank and release what's in master now? That is, >> I run 'make fetch' and update the copyright year and NEWS and so forth, >> but don't make any material changes. The fixes in master should be good >> enough to release now, even if they're not what we'd like to do if we >> had more time. >> >> We've had several requests to do a new release and nothing has happened. >> At least releasing what we've got will make *something* happen. > > Sounds good to me. If master has known, material regressions over 2.69, that > would be cause to delay. The mere existence of unreviewed patches or bugs > present in both 2.69 and master needn't delay it. As you can see from the Savannah repository for Autoconf <https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/autoconf.git> I finally started the ball rolling on this, and Zack Weinberg has volunteered to make a beta and push out a new release sooner rather than later. Thaks, Zack!
