Re: early adopters of groff 1.23.0

[Sam James]

"G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> writes:

> [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]]
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm pleased to see that even in the absence of an official announcement
> (so far), distributors are getting their hands on the still piping-fresh
> groff 1.23.0 release.
>
> Over the course of the release cycle, I've kept my eye on repology.org
> to see who's been taking up the release candidates.  That monitoring has
> not been wholly disappointing, but it has underscored the importance of
> producing official releases.  No matter how solid your code quality,
> many people will not take up your work until you pronounce it "ready".
>
> I'd like to recognize the following distributions for moving fast.
>
> * Alpine Linux Edge
> * Carbs Linux
> * Gentoo
> * KaOS Build
> * Termux

Thank you! We've indeed been testing the RCs too, although we made
them opt-in for users.

And thank you all for the new groff release! I know it was a massive
push to get here.