Fwd: [moodle-packaging] Time to Orphan?

[Jeremy Bicha]

Dan, Penny, and others,

I also don't have the skill to complete the 1.9 packaging. I'm
forwarding this to the Edubuntu developers as moodle has been part of
their suite for a while.

Jeremy Bicha


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From: Penny Leach <penny at mjollnir.org>
Date: Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 10:18 AM
Subject: Re: [moodle-packaging] Time to Orphan?
To: pkg-moodle-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org


On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:34:10AM +0000, Dan Poltawski wrote:
> Neither Penny or I are getting enough time to sufficiently
> produce/maintain the Moodle package and we've just discussed that fact
> that it seems like now is the time should consider orphaning the
> pacakage and getting it removed.
>
> In my opinion its much worse for us to have the package in debian but
> without proper maintenance than to not have it at all.
>
> We've not really been fast enough to respond to security issues or
> even complete the new 1.9 package in recent months and I don't think
> we can see this improving in the future.
>
> What does everyone else think?

I think it's very unfortunate actually, and I'd love to be able to fix the
package- but I do wonder how many people really use Moodle from the Debian
package?  Popcon indicates more than I thought actually:

http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=moodle

But still it's not much.

I definitely agree it's better to have no Moodle in Debian than the
dreadful package that we have there now.

We should also talk to the ubuntu guys too - are any of them on this list?

Cheers,
P

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