Hello,> At this point in time the primary Debian netpanzer maintainer is MIA,
> so other team members have been taking up the slack.Thanks!> Could you give the name/website of the maintainer who passed away?Fulvio Testi (Fu) - netpanzer.info> I note there are two admins of the SF project, are both unreachable?Fu has passed away, the other I am in communication with. However, it seems like he is interested in handing the baton off.> Would you mind reporting a bug about this? (severity serious)Sure thing. I am learning about Debian's process - will check this out.> Is the new masterserver compatible with 0.8.7? Is the code public?Yes. I obtained the code from Fu before he passed away, with the sole purpose of running the new master server. The code is here: https://github.com/netpanzer/masterserver/blob/main/npms.cThat is the current deployed version.On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 10:55 PM Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote: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?
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pabs
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--~Devon