Re: [Pan-users] Re: What's the status of new development?

[Travis]

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From: "Duncan" <address@hidden>
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Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 5:29 PM
Subject: [Pan-users] Re: What's the status of new development?


> Bruce Bowler <address@hidden> posted
> address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Thu, 31 Jan 
> 2008
> 15:46:46 +0000:
>
>> The most recent version is dated 1-Aug-2007, that's (as of tomorrow) 
>> 6
>> months ago.  We were getting updates weekly for a while.  Has Charles
>> dropped off the face of the earth?
>
> He has a way of doing that for awhile, once in awhile.  Last time it
> happened, he was gone for ~8 months, came back long enough to post a
> couple betas, then was gone a year and a half or more...  We all 
> thought
> he'd abandoned it and there were a few talking about trying to pickup
> development.  Turns out he was (secretly) working on the rewrite into 
> C++
> the entire time!  Then when he came back, it was weekly betas for 
> about a
> year and a half as he worked out the worst kinks in the C++ rewrite 
> (0.90
> +), and I'm sure he got burnt out.  So I wasn't surprised to see him 
> take
> a break for awhile, but it'd be nice if he'd pop in and tell us what's
> happening and if it's going to be six months (it already has) or a 
> year
> or two again.
>
> FWIW, it might be worth a bit of incentive if he got a bit of money in
> the tip jar.  I don't know if it has changed since the rewrite came 
> out,
> but he remarked at one point before that, that he'd gotten something 
> like
> $16, sum-total, over all the years he had put in.  No pot calling the
> kettle black here or anything, and this isn't pointed specifically at 
> you
> or anyone; I'd intended to do it when it hit 1.0, which at one point 
> he
> was hoping to be the next stable version (I think he gave up on that
> idea, tho, maybe why he decided to take the break), but that didn't 
> come,
> and I didn't put anything in the tip jar...  So I'm just sain', is 
> all.
>
> Maybe we ought to get a campaign together with all the regulars and
> anyone else who wants to pitch in, and see if we can pull say $500, or 
> at
> least a couple hundred, together...  That's not much in hours for a
> programmer as he is, but it'd certainly show some symbolic 
> appreciation,
> which might help the burn-out thing.  If anyone thinks it's worth it, 
> do
> we all want to public-pledge, or just do our own thing anon, or 
> nominate
> someone to keep pledge records and post totals, but not individual
> donations, to the list/group.  Of course, it'd be honor system if we 
> did
> the latter, since the money would go direct to him, not to the guy
> keeping the otherwise anon records...  I like this latter idea, as I
> think it's worth a campaign and would like to see the sort of totals 
> we
> could get, but don't believe it appropriate to say publicly what I
> personally would throw in.  I'd love to set a goal, tho, and see if we
> could reach it, even if it's honor system.

We have Pan 0.132 installed on two boxes so I'd be willing to 
contribute.
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Travis in Shoreline Washington