Re: [Pan-devel] Keeping Pan alive?

[Jack Ostroff]

On 2021.08.02 14:14, Christopher Conforti wrote:
> Hi! I have been here for a minute, but I had given up hope of ever
> getting a response; I thought the mailing lists for this software were
> dead. A while ago I submitted a patch here, but I doubt anyone ever
> read it.

Hi Christopher,

The list is apparently only mostly dead :-)

I'm sure several folks have looked at your patch as well as others that  
have been submitted - the problem is that nobody with commit access to  
the repository is active any more, so there is nobody to make a final  
decision which patches to accept (there are a small number which would  
be critical for a new release) and also nobody to care for actually  
creating a new release.  It would certainly be possibly for someone to  
clone the repository, but it doesn't seem anybody feels willing to take  
on that responsibility.  In the short run, you can certainly compile  
your own version, using the patches from a select set of PRs, but that  
will get more and more difficult as more patches are needed for more  
changes to upstream libraries.  For example, the gtk3 patch works, in  
that it allows to compile and run the program (which is what I have  
done) but apparently there are a number of features that don't work any  
more with that patch.  I'm just lucky that I haven't run into any of  
those yet.

Unless someone step up to take charge, pan is destined to fade into  
history.

Jack