pan orphaned - willing to volunteer for maintainership

[Alexander Dalloz]

Steve Fox schrieb:

>On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 19:51 +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
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>>Question:
>>What should be done? There are 2 possible routes I see:
>>a) Keeping the beta / development upstream and doing a pan FE update 
>>rebuild from 0.99 -> 0.113.
>>b) Increasing the epoch to get the same stable release version of FE5 
>>and FE4 into devel / soon to be released FE6.
>>
>>This is a call for votes - especially by those of you using Pan.
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>I've been using Pan on an almost daily basis throughout the 0.1xx series
>to read the Linux kernel mailing list and related groups via gmane.org.
>I've been building from source and find it to be quite stable and
>significantly faster than 0.14.x (this could have something to do with
>the customizable article expiration feature). 0.112 is the version I've
>been using for the last couple of weeks and I'm upgrading to 0.114
>tonight. 
>
>It would be my preference to go with the beta series, as they are coming
>out fast and furious. I think 1.0 will be here soon. If not, it'd be an
>easy update from the beta after FC6 ships.
>
Thanks, I really appreciate your feedback. I think I'll follow your 
advise and update the devel tree FE package these days.

Alexander