Re: NetPanzer Revival

Hello,

Bug 1061474 has been submitted for the master server issue.

Also, thanks again to the team that has kept NetPanzer in Debian alive
while others were MIA. I am happy to learn about Debian's processes and
help pickup some of the slack.


On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 11:08 PM Devon Winrick <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
>
>

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~Devon