Bug#623831: RFA: textpattern -- flexible and easy-to-use content management system

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 03:46:49PM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: normal
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> I request an adopter for the textpattern package.
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> The package description is:
>  Textpattern is an open source content management system originally
>  developed by Dean Allen. While it is often listed among weblogging
>  tools, its aim is to be a high-quality general-purpose content
>  management system suitable for deployment in many contexts.
>  .
>  It uses Textile as text-to-HTML converter and produces XHTML/CSS
> 
> I don't use it anymore and I lack time to maintain properly. This
> package uses dbconfig-common and a patch hijack the installation
> system of the package to delegate the installation of the database to
> dbconfig-common. However, table creation and upgrades are still done
> by textpattern. This is the only difficulty of this package.
> 
> The popcon is very low (18) and therefore I will request for its
> removal in a few months if I get no adopter.

Eight months have passed and the popcon is even lower. Shall we go
ahead with the removal?

Cheers,
        Moritz