The main issue is that I am planning to stop distributing
rearguard-format tzdata tarballs from my personal web pages at UCLA.
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Paul, I know you don't want to get into pull requests for the GitHub code, but would you entertain any help for build automation for releases and/or development nightlies that would be hosted there to offload some of the manual work you do? Or if one of us maintained a fork on GitHub or BitBucket that did this (only mentioning BB because I am more comfortable with their automation)?