Hi, On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 05:44:36PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > [ Many people are on copy, please trim the list as appropriate when you reply > ] > > On Wed, 19 Aug 2015, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > > These need to be discussed, since they will be a significant > > time drain (e.g. are they in the sponsors's interests?). They > > are supportable, but it will take a lot of work and sometimes > > special domain knowledge: > > > > icedove > > iceweasel > > qemu > > qemu-kvm > > xen > > libvirt > > ffmpeg -> libav > > vlc > > rails -> several split packages (only the 3.2 packages are supported in > > wheezy) > > Nobody commented here but I believe that we should aim to support them. > Except vlc, they are all used by some of the current sponsors (even though > they are not currently supported in squeeze). > > It would be good to identify Debian maintainers with the required "special > domain knowledge" for all those packages so that they can be paid to > take care of those packages when the need arises (cf > https://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts-details.html#join for > details about requirement for paid contributors). > > Thus putting the respective maintainers/maintainance team in copy (Mike > Hommey for iceweasel, Guido Günther for multiple package, Christop Göhre for > Icedove, > Aurelien Jarno, Riku Voipio, Vagrant Cascadian for qemu, Michael Tokarev > for qemu-kvm, Guido Trotter and Bastian Blank for Xen, Laurent Léonard > for libvirt, Sebastian Ramacher and pkg-multimedia for libav/vlc). > > Do you know someone from the Debian maintenance team or from the upstream > project which could be hired a few hours from time to time to provide the > required security updates on the above source packages when it gets too > complicated for the LTS contributors? Feel free to pass around this email > if you think of someone and want to inform him/her...
If we do iceweasel then icedove wouldn't be hard on top but I'll let Christoph and Carsten (added to cc:) comment on this since I've not done any real Icedove work since ages. Cheers, -- Guido
