Hi all, I'm sending this mail as an answer to #438168 - A user (understandably) fed up by what seems to be lack of attention to a package that is core to many people's work, libapache2-mod-perl2. I send this mail with some fear, of course, as I do not really want to adopt it - but... Well, the circumstances might be pushing for it ;-) Now, what's ModPerl2's status? - It is maintained by Thom May, with Andres Salomon listed as an uploader. - Thom's last upload for this package (1.999.23-1) is dated 8 May 2005 - Andres' last upload (2.0.2-2) is dated 12 Mar 2006. Just for the record, two uploads prior to this (2.0.1-4, 04 Oct 2005), he notes in the changelog this is "The I'm-tired-of-maintaining-stuff-I-don't-use release" - Since the beginning of 2006, the package has seen only four NMUs - Sesse, Luk, Aba and Vorlon Of course, before any action, I'd like to hear Thom's or Andres' points of view. Now, I'd be happy to adopt it, but I really doubt I'm up to the task. First of all, I suck big time at C. Second, I suck at time allocation, and my Debian work has been repeatedly hampered by this. My first suggestion is for the pkg-perl group to step up and take it as one of our beloved children^Wmodules... But I fear several of us will be in a position similar to mine, with a good knowledge of Perl, but a poor knowledge of C - And in this case, we _will_ need it. On the other hand, I'm also Cc:ing the Debian Apache Maintainers - But the opposite effect might hold: You are familiar with the Apache guts, but you might be unfamiliar with mod_perl2 itself So, - Should we hijack/adopt the package, or will its current maintainers stand up and get it back to life? - Is there somebody who wants to lead this? - Pkg-perl and/or Apache groups: Do you agree? :) - In any other case: Other takers? Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - gwolf@gwolf.org - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF
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