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[Groff] Trying to understand groff development and release model
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Halim Issa |
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[Groff] Trying to understand groff development and release model |
Date: |
Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:10:29 +0100 |
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All,
I've been searching the mailing list archives and wikis to try to understand
why there has been no groff release for years, while during the same time what
seems like a lot of useful commits have been done to the source code.
I am sure there are good reasons from the core developers to deviate from the
"release early, release often" mantra of open source software, but since I
have not been able to find it, I was hoping perhaps someone could kindly take
the time to shed some light and a few sentences on the current development
status, and what are the main reasons for not pushing some of the useful
commits into a new release?
One of the key motivations for asking is the need for the various utf-8-
related patches in groff that seems to have been sitting in cvs for a while...
Thanks in advance for taking a few minutes to shed some light on this!