Re: current development

[Joseph Heled]

I am out of the loop too, but speeding up rollouts (i.e. using modern
multicores) seems like a worthy improvement.

-Joseph


On Wed, 4 Dec 2019 at 07:08, Øystein Schønning-Johansen
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi Sarah!
>
> Thanks for taking contact. Good to hear that you like GNU Backgammon.
> Is it still under development? Hmmm... debatable. There has not been many 
> major improvements the last few years.
>
> Take a look at the projects ChangeLog.
> http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/gnubg/gnubg/ChangeLog?revision=1.2654&view=markup
>
> As you see there isn't much happening.
>
> Of course you can contribute if you want. After all this project is Open 
> Source an anyone can do whatever changes they want.
> Just post comments here on the mailing list, and it can shear up some of the 
> sleeping developers.
>
> If you are a developer and want to contribute with code, we can of course 
> provide you write access to the cvs repository. (Yes, it is as old that it's 
> using cvs to do code revision).
> Since everyone is more or less "sleeping", there is no real TODO list. Maybe 
> some code janitor work? Refactoring? Maybe c99-ify some of the code. Maybe 
> you can suggest a feature? Or report a bug?
>
> Even though I'm not doing much on GNU Backgammon (I've not done much the last 
> 10 years) these days, I guess if we just chat about some details, it might be 
> the spark that starts up a new motivation among us. There are some 
> discussions still on this mailing list, last week there was a new Match 
> Equity Table presented (Thanks Ian). If we just chat more, maybe something 
> can start flowing again. I'm getting more time as my kids grow older. So, who 
> knows what happens.
>
> Best regards,
> -Øystein
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 3:58 PM Sarah Payne <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> Hello there. Been a huge fan for many years of gnu backgammon, many thanks 
>> to everyone involved. Is the software still under development with new 
>> versions coming? Is it possible to contribute directly to this project?
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>> Thanks
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>> Sarah
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>> Sent from Mail for Windows 10
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