I'm still the current developer/maintainer of the upstream desktop software. [1] There never came a web app out of it, there were three separate attempts, the last one 2 1/5 years ago. [2] There is a new web data server, but it's a collection aggregator, not the main collection manager. [3]
Ages ago a version of this software (bauble-0.9.7) made it into Debian. Upstream was not involved in the process as far as I know. We are now at version 1.0.82 (and counting) I'm sorry to say this, but the presence of such an old version of bauble in Debian is more a nuisance than of any help to us: it depends on such old stuff that it simply WON'T WORK on any modern system, in particular it can NOT work in Debian 9, nor 8, and I'm quite sure not even on Debian 7. Often users ask me if they can install the software via the packaging system and I have to tell them that this packaged bauble is obsolete stuff. It is bad advertisement for us, and for Debian. The best option would be if the current package maintainer could update it obviously, but apparently (4 years have passed) Giacomo has no time for it, and I'm not here to blame him, I also did not find the time to learn packaging. If this can't be updated, then please remove it from Debian, please, or mark it as orphaned, so we can think of adopting it. As things stand, I don't know what to do. In March 2015 I have briefly been in contact with Giacomo, his bottom line was: > ok. controllero’ bauble e la tua versione. > Solitamente sono le dipendenze a dare problemi: dobbiamo dipendere solo in pacchetti esistenti in debian. pip e virtualenv non sono accettabili. in particular the "dobbiamo dipendere solo da pacchetti esistenti in debian" is itself a contraddiction: bauble-0.9.7 depends on packages which aren't in Debian any more. I still stand with what I wrote before: »I am interested in including in [this software] a script I can run every time there is a new release, and in documenting the process in [the] documentation.« thank you, Mario Frasca 1] https://github.com/Ghini/ghini.desktop 2] https://github.com/Bauble/bauble.web 3] https://github.com/Ghini/ghini.web
