For most of this year, @zwol and I have been working on a pretty ambitious project:
* to make a fresh release of GNU Autoconf, a crucial #FLOSS build tool that hadn't had a new release since 2012
* to get paid for that
* to help put Autoconf on a more sustainable footing so it doesn't have to get rescued again a little while down the road
Autoconf 2.70 is due out next month, and you can read my fresh LWN story about the rejuvenation & what's next:
@iron_bug @brainwane Debian has done that exact thing already and i'm crunching my way through the bugs. (if you have a lot of C++ i recommend you use dev trunk instead of 2.69c, there were some very important fixes for C++ that didn't quite make 2.69c)
@brainwane @zwol Sounds great! :)
@brainwane As a #GNU hacker & user: thanks a lot for undertaking this task!
@brainwane @zwol omg you make the amazing fiction posts on metafilter AND maintain critical internet infrastructure? 🤩
@brainwane @zwol that’s amazing! Thank you for doing this
@brainwane I regret reading the comments
@zwol @brainwane typically true of LWN. i greatly appreciate their reporting and could do without about 90% of their commentariat.
@brennen @brainwane Big mood, as the young ‘uns say.
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