I only accept it if this going to have a maintainer from the beginning. Are you willing to do it?

I may be willing to do it, but for now I'm willing to consider doing it. The idea is both exciting and terrifying, as all my professional development has been on Windows. My only Linux build experience has involved a few applications that came with very talented makefiles, and none of it on Solus. It's been about five years since I've used git. I've never built an eopkg package. I'll be 75 years old tomorrow.

The excitement stems from a lifelong fascination with software, and a long career building it with Basic, Pascal, C, C++, and C#. I assume that a lot of maintainers have begun with little relevant experience, and that there are tutorials and mentoring available. I'll need to learn the processes, tools, procedures, and so on. And if I can do that well, I'll know whether I'm "willing to do it."

Until now, I haven't had a reason to use IRC. Where I last worked, we had an enterprise chat as part of Lotus Notes. I can set up an IRC chat account through Thunderbird, but I need to know what chat server to link with. I'm guessing that's irc.getsol.us, but I'd like to know for sure before I try using that. Please advise.

https://getsol.us/articles/contributing/getting-involved/en/#irc

so the server is:

irc.libera.chat:6697 (TLS)

I think I set up Thunderbird corectly. The default there was irc.libra.chat, so I added port 6997. When I tried to connect, this is what I got (for several minutes). Any ideas? Meanwhile I'll go back and re-check everything I entered.

There was a field for "Auto-joined channels," which I left empty, because I didn't know what to put there. Was that correct, or is something actually needed there? By the way, I didn't enter "libra," it was "libera." I mistyped here.

if you reread what Staudey said. it was port 6697 not 6997. Main channel we reside in for that server is #Solus #Solus-Chat and #Solus-Dev. The last two channels requires you to be registered with libera's services before you can join if I recall correctly.

Thanks for pointing that out. I got it wrong in the one place that mattered. I've deleted that account and created a new one with the correct port number.

I hope that this turns out to be the hardest part of maintaining a package! Apparently Thunderbird's chat account must be considered a "web IRC client," because nothing I could do there has worked. So I installed hexchat (it was not a default on Plasma) and made a lot of progress. However, as noted, #solus-dev requires being registered with the "nick server." Nothing I've seen so far has provided a clue how to do that.

I suggest reading this page https://libera.chat/guides/registration

Thanks, Zach. I'm pretty sure I'm set up properly now.

WetGeek is now registered to wetgeek@wetgeek.net.

I was originally interested in this, because I was using the EFL-based Terminology emulator, and was very impressed with it. And as a retired enterprise software engineer (Windows), I figured it should be both interesting and possible for me to take it on. It turns out I was wrong about that. I wasn't even able to get it to build as-is.

My time to learn an entire new paradigm is somewhat limited, being the sole caregiver for a wife with Alzheimer's. When I found out that the task exceeded my current abilities, I wanted to contact Bea privately to explain, but could never find her online when I was. I preferred not to make a general announcement.

I'm still curious about the EFL technology, but it needs someone with more applicable skills to adopt this project. Perhaps the person maintaining Terminnology would already be up to speed on the build methods used for Rage, and might have time to take this on, too?

Alternatively, it should just be scrapped. I would have loved to be able to maintain this, but it's just not going to be possible.

Thanks. If someone can be ffound to maintain it, this might help. There doesn't seem to much activity there, though, in the last year or so.