Re: Fwd: jessie backport for Wordpress

[Rodrigo Campos <rodrigo@sdfg.com.ar>]

On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 08:24:10PM +0100, Rodrigo Campos wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 05:24:55PM +0200, Rhonda D'Vine wrote:
> > 
> >  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.
> 
> (Adding Craig to Cc:)
> 
> Craig, the backports team will feel more comfortable if the backport does not
> depend on only one person, and it would be best if someone in the regular
> package maintenance is involved too.
> 
> My plan, of course, is to do the backport in a timely fashion. Where I work we
> are using it for a whole site (not just as a blog) in production, so of
> course my plan is not to disappear. But, would you like to take care of it in
> the unlikely case I "disappear"?
> 
> I can continue to provide a backport even if I change my job. When jessie
> becomes oldstable, as I tend to upgrade the servers quickly, I will not have
> where to test it, though.


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Thanks,
Rodrigo