intrigeri:
> [...] And we're thus left with option B:
>
>>> Option B: find co-maintainers for the Debian package
>>> ====================================================
>>>
>>> We have the skills at Tails to become co-maintainers but if there's
>>> a way to find some other co-maintainers, it would be sweet. Ideally we
>>> would not have to be part of it but worst case we can, at least for
>>> a while.
>>>
>>> s7r, how about you ask the Debian Cryptocoin Team¹ if they want to
>>> co-maintain Electrum with mithrandi and/or with some Tails folks,
>>> under the umbrella of their team?
>>>
>>> [1] https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?email=team%2Bcryptocoin%40tracker.debian.org
>>
>> I have sent some emails, but I have to admit I didn't have time to stay
>> quite on top of this. I plan to further discuss it and look for solutions.
>
> Great!
>
> Any progress on this front? Could you please point me to the
> corresponding mailing list thread?
>
> (And if you only did private email so far, I suggest you switch to
> using that team's public mailing list in the future, which fits the
> Debian culture better and has thus more chances to work :)
>
> Please Cc me further communication with the Debian Cryptocoin team, if
> you don't mind. It'll help me assess whether, and how much, we as
> Tails need to invest into co-maintaining the package.
I'm super happy that intrigeri took over the technical discussion that
was slightly over my head :)
In terms of documentation:
- We've had an unusable version of Electrum in Tails for 1.5 month and,
if we can't make it usable again, we should consider removing it at
some point, independently of the Debian status of the package. Please
let me know if we reach a point where we should remove it and I'll
update the doc.
- I'm still ready to build up on s7r's tutorial and explain how to run
the AppImage in Tails for advanced users as I offered in the opening
post of this thread.
April was the first full month with an unusable version of Electrum.
We've had -6.4% of boots in April compared to March. We had no releases
in April and a negative number is quite usual in such cases. -6.4% is
quite a lot but no unprecedented and roughly the double of the last
months we had without releases. See stats in attachment.
So I think we lost at most 5% of users by having a broken version of
Electrum, roughly as much as what we lost when we dropped 32-bit
computers. Not super fun but not catastrophic either. Rather good news!
--
sajolida
