Hi yes, this was a friendly transition and Jesse and I have already discussed it.
The background is that I'm the original author of the SDL Sopwith port but handed off to Jesse some time back after I lost interest. It's always been my intention to return to the codebase at some point and I recently became interested again - particularly because there were things like the dependency on SDL1 that you mention that badly needed updating. Jesse agreed with my decision and has also been contributing some documentation updates to the new release. Hope this helps clarify things! On Mon, Aug 22, 2022, 8:14 AM Kenneth Pronovici <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 3:39 PM Simon Howard <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Package: sopwith > > Version: 1.8.4-18 > > > > A new version of this package, 2.0.0, has been released. The upstream > > URL has also changed. Please update the Debian package to the new > > version. > > > > https://fragglet.github.io/sdl-sopwith > > > > Simon (the upstream maintainer). > > Hi Simon, > > I am glad to see sopwith updated to use SDL 2, since we've been > getting requests for that for a while now (such as in bug #894853 from > way back in 2018). > > Up until now - at least since July of 2010, when I took over the > Debian package - Jesse Smith (CC'd) has been considered the upstream > maintainer for this code. Are you now taking it over? Or are you and > Jesse going to be jointly maintaining it from now on? Given that the > old SourceForge page has been updated to point at your new GitHub > page, I am assuming this was a friendly transition. However, I do > need to understand the new situation, especially since this isn't just > a change in maintainer but is also a major change to the codebase at > the same time. > > Thanks, > >
