Bug#888580: RFA: doxygen - Documentation system for C, C++, Java, Python and other languages

[Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>]

Control: retitle -1 O: doxygen - Documentation system for C, C++, Java, Python and other languages

On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 01:14:14PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
> I'd like to drop maintenance of doxygen. I think I hijacked that package in 2004
> to be able to build the libstdc++ docs from the GCC sources. Now that the
> package needs a concise understanding about the javascript issues (sources,
> different upstream versions), I'd like to stay off that maintenance task. Helmut
> Grohne has been a substantial help with the javascript issues, but decided to
> leave co-maintainership.  Basically I'm asking for a new maintainer with the
> understanding of the javascript issues, the implications for Debian policy, and
> the willingness to adopt the package to build documentation of Debian packages.

I'd like to take the opportunity to thank Matthias for his time as sole
and primary Doxygen maintainer for such a long time. It certainly isn't
a thankful package as every new upstream release tends to make some
other package FTBFS. Dealing with the bug reports can be a tiresome task
indeed and Matthias has certainly endured that for a long time. The
balance of how close to stay with upstream defaults is difficult to
strike. Communicating issues with upstream likely needs more time as
well.

I'd also like to thank Paolo Greppi, who stepped up and triaged a number
of bugs in 2013. Paolo, are you still interested in Doxygen? Now would
be a good time to say so.

In case someone wants to adopt Doxygen, I'm happy to share my knowledge
of the package.

Helmut