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Giving away CTN



Hi all,

Specialisation is good. I prefer not to hop onto any Debian team I can get on, 
but rather choose a few places where my help is useful and do them well, 
rather than to do many things not that well. The security team takes a lot of 
my 'Debian time', and I also have a number of other packages. So, while 
reviewing my work on ctn I believe it's better to give that away. I don't 
have the time to maintain it properly.

As previously discussed on this list, ctn hasn't seen an upstream release in 
years, and may be better replaced by MESA. However, I do not have the time to 
research that and make it happen.

The popcon numbers are not high, especially votes, and it doesn't work with 
MySQL >= 4. MySQL 3 can be considered ancient these days. Keeping the status 
quo is not helpful. I suggest any of the following paths:

1) The Debian-Med team takes over CTN maintenance and does something to 
resolve it's bitrot, e.g. replacing it with MESA.
2) I ask for ctn to be removed. This of course doesn't preclude the first 
option to be carried out on a later moment.

I'm interested to hear your opinions. In any case it doesn't make sense to me 
to ship ctn with Lenny in its current form. Either path 1 or 2 needs to be 
chosen.


cheers,
Thijs

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