On Thu, Jun 6, 2024, at 10:37 AM, Dan Kegel wrote: > That's a really good idea. Automake and Autotools in general underpin > a fair amount of key open source software, but is taken for granted. > > Ideas for making the case for funding: identify... > - how many commonly used Debian/Ubuntu/Alpine packages and/or GitHub > projects rely on automake/Autotools > - markers of risk (e.g. very out of date or buggy embedded Autotools files) > - problems this has caused in the past > - related government standards for software quality > All of that might help make the case. On the autoconf side of the fence, I do not have spare cycles to write a proposal all by myself, but I would be interested in working with one or more other people to write such a proposal, and in doing some of the work. In particular, I already have a mental list of things that *ought* to be done in the near future for autoconf but I do not have the capacity to do by myself on a volunteer basis. I'm adding Sumana Harihareswara to the cc: list; she helped me secure the funding for the release of autoconf 2.70 and might be interested in working on this pitch as well. zw
