Hi all, I'm currently preparing the next release of groff (I still have to commit a few changes in the build system but I'm not far from making a candidate package). In order to upload a tarball (into alpha.gnu.org and ftp.gnu.org) I mailed ftp-upl...@gnu.org so that they could give me access to these ftp site, but apparently not being the official maintainer is a problem, here is was they answered:
"The currently listed maintainer for groff is Ted Harding <ted.hard...@wlandres.net>. Only him or an uploader nominated by him can have their key added to the ftp server. If he has stepped down as a maintainer this needs to be resolved prior to requesting a new uploader key to be added. Please discuss this within the project and request any changes in the maintainers to maintain...@gnu.org. When the new maintainer(s) are added to the files then they can request their key to be added to the ftp, alternatively they can nominate uploaders to have their keys added too." I can take in charge part of the job of the maintainer: the build system, making release; I've also studied src/roff/troff source code and I'm planning to propose changes in `troff' to support Knuth-Plass paragraph formating algorithm (a long-term task and of course not for the next release). But I'm not competent for questions/bugs on macro packages (there are currently lots of open bugs and patch requests for macro packages) and I can't be a technical lead like Werner, I could be at most a "co-maintainer". So what should we do now? Regards, Bertrand Garrigues
