GNU grep New Maintainers

[Tony Abou-Assaleh]

I am pleased to announce that Jim Meyering and Paolo Bonzini have been
appointed as co-maintainers of GNU grep.

Jim and Paolo have been involved in various GNU projects for many years
and they bring a lot of expertise to the project.

In the past couple of weeks, they made several long-over-due updates to
grep that brings it closer to the latest best practices in the GNU world
in terms of package management.

Summary of updates:

 1. convert repository to git
 2. remove intl directory
 3. make "make distcheck" pass
 4. rename autogen.sh to bootstrap with several updates
 5. cleaned up m4/ directory

They are now making a series of "gnulibification" updates.

Thanks, Jim and Paolo, and welcome aboard!

Cheers,

TAA

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