----- Original Message ----- From: "Duncan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <pan-users@nongnu.org> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 5:29 PM Subject: [Pan-users] Re: What's the status of new development?
> Bruce Bowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > [EMAIL PROTECTED], 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. -- Travis in Shoreline Washington _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
