The future of PBW - a call to arms

Ruatha · #1 June 7th, 2004, 05:16 PM

Make it so that I can change my Companion program to access it through HTTP as it now can through the Text mode at the current PBW server.

(Hopefully a rough beta without documentation will be released tomorrow)

tesco samoa · #2 June 7th, 2004, 05:25 PM

Perhaps another thread for suggestions and such when the project has started.

we will keep this one for people to ask if they can help out.

AMF · #3 June 7th, 2004, 05:38 PM

RE:

Quote:

Originally posted by tesco samoa:
Then we will set up a pbw development forum to work from and create a new sticky on the top of the seiv forum with links to pbw status and pbw development.

this is my suggestion.

I think this Last point is especially important. In a former life I used to do this sort of thing and bughunts, progress reports, questions, et al were greatly helped by daily collaboration amongst the programmers. I think there are even websites/tools out there specifically for this sort of thing (IIRC "scarab" is one). I would suggest a "development" forum, a "suggestions" forum, and a "current PBW status" forum (which we already have). Good luck, and I wish I could help.

thanks,
Alarik

Grauzone · #4 June 7th, 2004, 05:40 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by tesco samoa:
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I suggest that we leave this thread as an openning where people can post if their interested and what experience they have. And most importantly what time they can invest to work on this.

Then we will set up a pbw development forum to work from and create a new sticky on the top of the seiv forum with links to pbw status and pbw development.

this is my suggestion.

Interests:
I'm interested in development of a new Version of PBW or improvement the old Version.

Time:
No problems to ivest regulary ca. 10hr/week in this project. At minimum 6hr a day Online except weekend (wife and childreen).

Skills:
software design and programming is no problem. Can learn programming Languages fast if necessary. I'm not an artist => design is not realy my thing.

Grauzone · #5 June 7th, 2004, 05:46 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by alarikf:
... I would suggest a "development" forum, a "suggestions" forum, and a "current PBW status" forum (which we already have). ...

as soon as possible. please make them sticky.

important: separating of "suggestions" and "development".

Captain Kwok · #6 June 7th, 2004, 05:55 PM

I'd like to contribute graphics to a new interface.

geoschmo · #7 June 7th, 2004, 06:10 PM

Do we think that a bunch of threads here in the Shrapnel forum is the best place for this? I was thinking one sticky thread here to keep the public aware of what's going on, and a link to another forum somewhere where we can organize things more to our liking. Plus we probably need some method of uploading files, which we don't have here. I am fairly confident Fyron would be happy to give us room on his site for a forum. Depending on how we go about it we may need a dedicated site though with whatever software controls the check out of the code in progress. I am pretty sure that would be easily gotten somewhere, but not here.