Is buildout still a viable option?

[driehuis]

I looked at a few attempts at adding support for Odoo 12 and Ubuntu 18.04 bionic to the role, and found that the buildout part was the only non-trivial fix. It seems to depend on a development version of anybox.recipy.odoo, for which the last published release (1.9.2) is from 2016.

I'm perfectly happy using either of the two alternative install methods, so I'm not really well positioned to do a deep dive into buildout. Are people actively using buildout? Has buildout development moved to a place that's off my radar? If buildout has stalled, I'd like to propose adding Odoo 12 with a footnote that buildout is not supported for now.

Travis is happy for the pip and standard builds, so I was wondering what the best way forward would be.