[tryton-debian] Future of the Tryton suite in Debian

[Mathias Behrle]

Hi fellow developers,

as I am getting older, I have to gradually reduce my involvement with Debian.
With that in mind, I want to ensure that the packages I maintain are handled
appropriately.

All packages in the Tryton suite and some of its Python dependencies are
maintained by the Tryton Maintainers team [1][2], of which I am currently the
sole member.

Current Status
==============

Debian unstable, testing, and stable currently have Tryton LTS series 7.0,
which will be phased out during the lifecycle of forky. The current Tryton LTS
is 8.0, which would be the right candidate for forky.

My plans
========

The first step is to look for one or more successors, which is what I’m doing
with this email. If someone steps up, it’s entirely up to them to take over. In
that case, I can still help with migrating the packages to Tryton series 8.0
or whatever if desired.

If no one steps up, I plan to take the following course of action:

- I will remove the Tryton packages from testing in a timely manner before the
  forky release. For the other Python dependencies, I would look for
  maintainers from the Python team in this case.

- I will then maintain the Tryton packages for as long as possible in stable
  and older releases to address security issues.

- I will phase out the mirror I am maintaining for Debian Tryton packages that
  follow the regular bugfix releases from tryton.org which do not make their
  way into Debian stable [3]. Additionally, it provides backports of the
  supported Tryton LTS series for the applicable Debian releases. If someone
  wants to take over that service as well, that is of course also very possible.

- The final step will be, at some point in the future, to orphan the Tryton
  packages.


That said, anyone who wants to help is welcome to respond here, on the Tryton
Maintainers mailing list [4][5], or send me an email.

Cheers,
Mathias


[1] https://salsa.debian.org/tryton-team
[2]
https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=team%2Btryton-team%40tracker.debian.org
[3] https://tryton-team.pages.debian.net/
[4] Tryton package maintenance in Debian <tryton-debian at lists.alioth.debian.org>
[5] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/tryton-debian/


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