[parted-devel] Moving forward on parted development

[Jim Meyering]

Phillip Susi wrote:
> It's now been over 6 months since Jim left redhat and parted
> development has stalled.  I'd like to get it going again.  I think I'm
> going to repost my pending patches in the next days and see if anyone
> has time to review them yet, and either way, I'd like to go ahead and
> push them to savanna and gear up for a new release.  Jim mentioned
> shutting down the git repo at debian and just using savanna going
> forward.  How do we get that one shut down?  Is there a checklist for
> issuing a new release?  I imagine it mostly involves running make
> dist, and uploading the tarball to ftp.gnu.org?

Hi Phillip,

Thanks for moving this along.
I don't know how to shut down the debian repository -- never done that.
I'll bet Otavio knows or can find out, Cc'd.

The README-release file details the process I follow for parted.
It's very similar to the one followed for coreutils, gzip, grep,
diffutils, etc.

As you may have noticed (recent list traffic), Hendrik's patch is waiting
in the wings, pending copyright assignment papers, and if possible,
testing by someone with access to the required hardware (like Brian).

I'm in the midst of travel and a move, now, so will have little time to
help for the next 2-3 weeks.

I've added bug-parted at gnu.org in Cc.  I've tried to phase out the
alioth.debian.org list, too.  The bug-parted one is what's mentioned in
--help, and thus, should be the one we prefer.

Jim