Re: NetPanzer Revival

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.c
That is the current deployed version.


On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 10:55 PM Paul Wise <[email protected]> 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?
>
> --
> bye,
> pabs
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
>


-- 

~Devon