I have four packages that I'd like to give away. If I don't find a new maintainer for them, I may orphan them after jessie is released since I no longer have time to maintain them. I have been maintaining these packages for a long time (over 10 years in some cases), and all four packages are in good shape. I have filed RFA bugs for each package. Two of the packages, tiff and icu, are important library packages with lots of reverse dependencies and frequent security issues. They are fairly low effort to maintain but require occasional surges of effort. In particular, ICU gets two non-binary-compatible (soname bump) upstream releases each year and requires regular coordination with the release team and often some of its downstream packages. The tiff packages are mostly inactive upstream but do get occasional upstream releases. The other two packages are relatively low-effort packages to maintain. The psutils package is dead upstream though there is someone out there who might be interested in taking over upstream. I would introduce him to any new maintainer. The xerces-c package is a library package but a pretty easy one as they go. It has few downstream packages within debian and gets very infrequent upstream releases. All four packages are maintained with git-buildpackage, but right now their repositories are in github because I switched all my packages over to git-buildpackage during a time when alioth had extended downtime. Pushing the repos over to a better/additional place is trivial, of course. I have provided additional information in the RFA bug reports: icu: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=777694 tiff: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=777695 xerces-c: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=777698 psutils: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=777699 -- Jay Berkenbilt <qjb@debian.org>
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