At 2023-01-11T00:30:16+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> On 1/10/23 22:39, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > Well, some of it, I'm still trying to fix for 1.23. I _still_ have not
> > heard back from Bertrand. It's been two weeks. I need to start
> > considering begging Werner to come out of retirement just long enough to
> > tag and push some tar archives. :-O
>
> You can't do it, right? Or do you?
I can create the tag in Git, but I don't have a GPG public key that the
FSF recognizes as having a "maintainer" bit, so I cannot validly upload
a distribution archive to alpha.gnu.org. Apart from signing issues, I
don't have authorization to upload there, or know the correct procedure.
Since this is an RC, I don't need to be on a whitelist (if one exists)
to email info-gnu, since only final releases are announced there. The
plan was to announce RC2 to the groff list and the GNU platform-testers
list.
I suspect the only things that _strictly_ require an official GNU
maintainer are generation of the signature for the distribution archive,
and upload of that archive to alpha.gnu.org.
If I were in Bertrand or Werner's position, I would prefer to perform
the Git tagging and archive generation ("make dist" or preferably "make
distcheck") myself. But AFAIK there's no _technical_ barrier to me
doing those things. (I already "distcheck" before _every_ set of
commits I push.) But in theory I could just hand either of them an
archive of 1.23.0.rc2 and say "trust me".
> Yep. Now I understand. So yeah, I never try to guess how much the
> page will take up on screen, and just check experimentally.
That's a sound approach. Nevertheless I would like to make tbl(1)'s
output more predictable on terminals for all groff users. That should
lower user frustration.
> You're right. I don't remember what was the exact issue we had with
> it. Anyway, .in just works so far. :)
I really like weaning man page authors off of *roff requests; I may have
to take another look at this issue someday. :D
Regards,
Branden
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