Package: wnpp Hi,
I'm looking for help, possibly in the form of members of a new alioth team, to carry on maintaining Movable Type packages in Debian. Movable Type is a perl-based blogging platform, which has been in existence for nearly 10 years, first as a proprietary package, and in recent years as an open source project. Currently testing has MT 4.3, and stable has MT 4.1. Upstream have recently released MT 5, which I suspect will best suit a parallel packaging effort (eg as movabletype-opensource5) to avoid having a potentially immature package in squeeze, as well as to ease the lenny->squeeze transition for people not wanting current features. Upstream are rather unclear about general support for the open source version of this so we need to be flexible in how we support this application in Debian. Based on recent correspondence on the mtos-dev list, however, it was suggested that MT4.3 would receive bug fixes and security support for a good while yet. It's possible that we should use volatile and/or volatile-sloppy for support of this software (given that upstream don't have clearly defined stable releases series other than the current latest and greatest). In addition to Movable Type itself, there is a commuity fork of MT4 named OpenMelody which may yet prove to be the best way to support this platform in Debian in the longer term, but that is not yet ready. When it does become sufficiently mature to consider packaging, work will be required there too. So if anyone would be interested in helping out with this effort, or have any other comments on the best way to make this software available to our users, please drop me a line. Cheers, Dominic.` -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100304115204.gc23...@eurydome.larted.org.uk
