Merge pull request #376 from olebole/olebole-cycle4-proposal

Cycle 4 Funding: Support packaging and maintenance of the Astropy ecosystem for Debian and Ubuntu

Author: eteq

finance/proposal-calls/cycle4/Streicher-Debian+Ubuntu.md

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+### Title
+
+Packaging and maintenance of the Astropy ecosystem for Debian and Ubuntu
+
+### Project Team
+
+Ole Streicher [email protected]/@olebole
+
+### Project Description
+
+This is a proposal to fund the ongoing continuous maintainance and
+interaction of Astropy and its related software within Debian, Ubuntu
+and other distributions that use Debian as a base. Aside from the
+major goal of providing high quality native packages of Astropy within
+Debian, this will improve the quality of the Astropy ecosystem by
+providing compatibility checks on a wide range of machine
+architectures and environments.
+
+### Project / Work
+
+ * keep Astropy in Debian and Ubuntu up to date and in good shape
+
+   - maintain distribution specific patches for Astropy and other packages
+    (policy, tests, metadata etc.)
+
+   - fix packaging related bugs
+
+   - observe CI tests and rebuilds on supported platforms and ports for both
+     Ubuntu and Debian; report problems and participate in the solution
+
+ * maintain the Astropy related infrastructure in Debian
+
+   - maintain required dependencies
+
+   - follow changes in environment (dependencies, policy); react on new
+     incompatibilities and requirements
+
+   - ensure packaging of coordinated packages; maintain them if needed
+
+   - propagate and coordinate packaging of affiliated packages and backports
+
+   - Debian mentorship+sponsorship for affiliated packages if needed
+
+   - observe the packaging of reverse dependencies; help in solving
+     compatibility problems
+
+ * act as a link between the Debian distribution and the Astropy community
+
+   - discuss/forward bugs to upstream, backport/apply fixes if needed
+
+   - participate in relevant discussion in both communities, connect
+     people for problem solution if needed
+
+### Approximate Budget
+
+Due to the continuous nature of the work, the budget should be based
+on a hourly rate. By the experience from the last years, a realistic
+estimate would be 8 hours per month. Using a suggested rate of USD
+120/hour, this would sum up to an estimated total of USD 11,520 per
+year. For a total of three years this would sum up to total
+USD 34,560.
+
+### Period of Performance
+
+This is a continuous work, so I would ask for funding for three years,
+dependent of available funding.