[Pkg-bazaar-maint] Maintenance of bzr package in jessie

[Jelmer Vernooij]

Hi Andrew,

On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 08:27:01PM -0400, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 7:46 PM, Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org> wrote:
> > Is anybody interested in taking over? Please let me know if you are,
> > and hopefully we can keep the package in great shape.

> > If not, we should probably orphan the package when jessie is opened.

> I'd be happy to become an uploader for the bzr package going forward.
> Ideally I would like to have a co-maintainer or two. Just to be clear,
> will you still be maintaining it in Ubuntu? If not, Ubuntu still
> obviously will have a strong interest in keeping it well maintained. I
> imagine that I will be able to find another Ubuntu Developer to join
> me in co-maintenance.
I thought we didn't really have maintainers in Ubuntu... ;-)

> Either way, I think for Jessie we should consider a less aggressive
> pace in regards to following upstream releases, perhaps staging betas
> in experimental before uploading to unstable in order to give plugins
> time to catch up.
Being less agressive about uploading new versions seems reasonable to
me; I'm not sure if that makes it easier or harder to catch breakage
though.

Note that the plugins that were historically most prone to breakage
have either been orphaned (bzr-svn, bzr-git, bzr-xmloutput, bzr-loom)
or removed from the archive (bzr-hg).

> I've noticed that someone has ITAed a few of the plugins you have
> orphaned. Maybe we can get some new blood into the team. Hopefully by
> the time that wheezy is released I will be a DD and be able to take on
> the responsibility of sponsoring uploads.
Thanks, it'd be awesome to not see them be neglected.

Cheers,

Jelmer