So I pinged SuperLag the other day on IRC about the wordpress ebuilds, and somehow I came out of that conversation as being the new maintainer. Buh. I’m still not sure how that happened. 
I’m excited, though. He didn’t mind ditching it and I didn’t mind picking it up. I like wordpress a lot, and I’m going to add wordpress multi-user to the tree as soon as I get a chance. Also, I’ve been meaning to do an audit of the PHP code myself to check for security vulns, so I guess I should get on that.
Something else I’ve been thinking of doing is maybe putting some popular themes in there as well, and maybe modules too. I use Spam Karma 2 to kill any nasty comment spam, and while it’s a cinch to install (just unzip the file and drop it in the plugins directory), I’m all about the laziness that portage caters to.
If anyone’s got any other ideas for wordpress stuff, just drop me a line and lemme know about it, and I’ll see what I can do.
Cool! WordPress is in Ubuntu, and it’s great to have it available. It’s cool that you are the new package maintainer too. I would definitely put Spam Karma 2 in as well. It’s saved me a bunch of headaches.
Ooh ooh ooh! If you’re going to add WordPress-MU, could you take care of Lyceum as well? It’s really not that different; my current Lyceum ebuild is pretty much identical to the Portage wordpress ebuild.
Have you taken a look at the Akismet service? It has a similar purpose as Spam Karma, but uses a centralized spamfilter (not a blacklist though).
http://akismet.com/