Re: GNU maintainership update

[John Gardner]

Congrats, Branden!

[1] https://xkcd.com/149/


Fixed that for you:

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On Sat, 31 Aug 2024 at 08:26, G. Branden Robinson <
g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> Bertrand and I have heard back from the GNU maintainers team.  As of
> yesterday, they have offered me the maintainer role for groff and I have
> communicated my acceptance.
>
> I haven't received notification of any changed "permission bits" or
> anything else, and don't expect to immediately, so for now I do not
> regard anything as having logistically changed; if we needed to tag and
> push groff 1.24.0.rc1 tomorrow, Bertrand would have to do it.
>
> Nevertheless we seem to be into the procedural, rather than the social,
> part of the handover process, so I thought I'd let the community know.
>
> I don't expect to update the groff web page with my changed status until
> I can "exercise maintainerly powers", as it were.[1]
>
> Regards,
> Branden
>
> [1] https://xkcd.com/149/
>
>     I had a more apropos cartoon in mind, involving a ghost flying out
>     of a computer monitor and a caption reading "rootly powers", that is
>     at least 20 years old (a co-worker used to have it on his office
>     door), but I could not find it in a web search.  Oh well.
>
>     Maybe it was from Nemeth et al.'s Unix sysadmin book...
>