On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:37:05 +0000, Duncan wrote: > JCA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > a10b0c8a0806190627t6354e362q31562bc8cdeacdfd-JsoAwUIsXosN [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted > below, on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:27:50 -0600: > >> Version 0.132 came out some 10 months ago. Is this still being >> developed? > > Well, yes, but not really at the moment.
Has anyone heard from Charles Kerr about this? > Really, what Charles needs is a couple other developers to work with > him on pan, helping to fill in the dead periods, while still > allowing him to come along every couple years and really go to town > on things. Has Charles expressed an opinion about this at all? > However, I've been a regular on the pan lists/groups for > years now (since 2002 IIRC) and it hasn't happened yet. There was a > guy (Chris) that helped for awhile, but he was very much either > minor, or simply behind the scenes. Charles was still the primary > developer. I wonder what's happened to Chris now? > I'm not sure why this has been the case, whether Charles is hard to > work with, or whether the area simply doesn't interest most > developers enough to do more than submit an occasional patch, but > that's the way it has been. In order to work with Charles, the first step would be getting his permission to make modifications. Has anyone actually applied for permission to him? > Of course, as most newsgroup folks already realize, NNTP itself is > relatively obscure; nothing like web browsers or mail clients, for > instance, so maybe it /is/ simply lack of interest. Another problem is that one of the big uses of Pan seems to be for binary newsgroups. I don't even have access to binary or alt newsgroups - it's hard for someone like me to take responsibility for something which I can't even test. > I just wish I > had the necessary skills to contribute at that level, but I don't, > so I simply stick around here and contribute what I can, help on the > pan lists/ groups. Well, you seem to be able to compile the newsreader from source code, apply patches and so on. > Oh, well. It is what it is. Either people with the skills are > interested enough to take a major and continuing interest, or not, > and it appears not, so Charles continues his mostly solitary > developership, and we that lack the coding skills to do more, > continue to deal with the on and off pattern, because he's providing > the code and we're not. I'm not sure whether you're suggesting a fork of the code or not. It's quite a big decision to do that, and it would be a very nice thing to talk to Charles Kerr beforehand. _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
