Re: Inquiry About Upcoming Zsh (Z Shell) Release Plans

[Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On 02/04/2025 21:52 BST Eric Cook <llua@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 4/2/25 2:50 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 2, 2025, 7:50 AM Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >     Not even a bug-fix release for 5.9?
> >
> >
> > Our (volunteer) release engineer has not been able to devote time to the project for a while.  A release is anticipated, but it would be premature to call it "planned".
> >
> What exactly does being the release engineer entails?

Very good question.  It's basically a matter of following the
instructions in

Etc/creating-a-release.txt

It's usually not too onerous --- the list is always available to provide
feedback so the tasks done by the release engineer tend to be fairly
mechanical.  Anyone familiar with software engineering with reasonable
hands-on knowledge of zsh is probably in a position to do it (you don't
need to be an expert on the shell's internals).

Access to Sourceforge and the zsh site will need to be provided but that
should be easy enough.

Volunteers are definitely very welcome, it's certainly high time for a
release.

Cheers
pws