Re: Fwd: jessie backport for Wordpress
On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 05:24:55PM +0200, Rhonda D'Vine wrote:
> * Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de> [2015-06-03 13:05:38 CEST]:
> > You just replied to list and thus removed Cc for Craig, and thus the
> > wordpress package maintainer is not in the loop anymore unless he reads
> > backports mailing list. As for having wordpress 4.2 in backports Rhonda
> > thinks it is not suitable.
>
> It might be suitable, but I would have to have some questions answered.
> The original reasoning did leave the impression on me that there was a
> misunderstanding about what backports is. Also it left the impression
> on me that the version of wordpress is considered unsupported/not being
> able to support it properly.
>
> These are things that raise my suspicion. We've had a fair amount of
> people trying to use backports as an "easy" way to get fixes into
> stable and thus I feel the need to raise that point from time to time.
>
> If I understood Rodrigo in their last mail correctly they have
> understood these concerns, and if I understood Holger and Craig
Yes :-)
> correclty wordpress seems to be actively maintained in (old)stable.
> The rest of the concerns are historicly with wordpress in older
> backports releases which haven't been taken proper care of. So we (as
> in backports team) would really like to see someone (rather more than
> only one person) to be taking care of this backport, best would be
> people involved in the regular package maintenance, too (that is, for
> testing/unstable), to reduce the chance that we are in the same
> situation again after some months when people now using it and thus
> having a direct interest potential move to a different platform. We
> just don't want to inherit to have to track that package again after a
> year or so.
>
> Thanks for understanding,
> Rhonda
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