Re: Introducing a new maintainer of libtool

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2024-01-16 15:44:08 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On 13 Jan 2024 14:49, Ileana Dumitrescu wrote:
> > My short term plans are to review the numerous mailing list patches and 
> > get them merged in. This will be an easy and productive first step for 
> > me and libtool. I will also look at the various distro patches and see 
> > if any of them are fit to be upstreamed as I have noticed some of the 
> > distros have been accruing a lot of patches as well.
> 
> i think we should aim to kick out something new sooner rather than later.
> so aim to include smaller/less risky changes as it's been ~2 years since
> the last release.  i don't mean this in terms of rushing you, but more
> "better to cut off sooner" than "try to merge everything that should be
> merged, but end up taking much longer in the process".  we can always
> make another release if we really want something out there.  especially
> as "this patch is so simple" can be very deceptive with libtool.
> -mike

+1

In particular, if some patch has issues, it may be easier to test
its effects if one has had a recent stable release.

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