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Re: NetPanzer Revival



On Fri, 2024-01-19 at 12:24 -0800, Devon Winrick wrote:

> First, I wanted to thank you for continuing to maintain NetPanzer
> after all these years.

At this point in time the primary Debian netpanzer maintainer is MIA,
so other team members have been taking up the slack.

> As of last year, I have taken over as lead upstream maintainer of
> NetPanzer, which is included in the Debian distribution.

Thanks for taking over development.

> I was working closely with a previous maintainer of the official
> NetPanzer project, however I am sad to say they recently passed away.

Could you give the name/website of the maintainer who passed away?

> With his passing, access to the SourceForge project page is no longer
> possible. The official project repository is now at
> https://github.com/netpanzer/netpanzer

I note there are two admins of the SF project, are both unreachable?

https://sourceforge.net/projects/netpanzer/

> Primarily at this point, I'm writing to request that 
> 'src/NetPanzer/Interfaces/GameConfig.cpp' be patched to include
> 'nepanzer.io' as the masterserver (L367). I'm hosting that server and
> I plan to keep it running indefinitely. Today, 0.8.7 is effectively
> unplayable, since the master server has been down for several years.

Would you mind reporting a bug about this? (severity serious)

https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting

Is the new masterserver compatible with 0.8.7? Is the code public?

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

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