Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: William Blough <bblo...@debian.org>
* Package name : backdrop Version : 1.11.2 * URL : http://backdropcms.org/ * License : GPL2+ Programming Lang: PHP Description : A full-featured content management system Backdrop is a fork of Drupal 7. It preserves the legacy audience of developers who value ease of use and speed of learning over architectural flexibility. This package is useful/relevant because Drupal will no longer be available in Debian, starting with Buster. Drupal 7 will be end-of-life before too long, and Drupal 8 is unlikely to be packaged. This package gives existing Drupal 7 users a supported migration path for their existing code, without the hassle of upgrading everything to Drupal 8. It is not yet a dependency for another package, however, as with Drupal there are numerous modules that could potentially be packaged to go with it. My employer is deploying Backdrop as a replacement for Drupal 7, instead of updating all our code to be Drupal 8 compatible. If I'm going to support it for their Debian infrastructure, I might as well package it for Debian proper so others may also benefit. The functionality of Backdrop is nearly identical to Drupal 7, with the exception that Backdrop will be supported even after Drupal 7 is end-of-life I am willing to maintain the package myself, since I will be doing it for my employer anyway. However, I am certainly open to team or co-maintenance if others are interested. I do not need a sponsor as I am a DD.