Re: [glob2-devel] Release

[donkyhotay]

We've talked about having a release before and with all the changes we
definitely need to do so. In regards to dropping the alpha I actually
thought the game had already left alpha stage a release or two ago.
Except for some of the AI's (which are listed in game as unstable) the
game hasn't had any game stopping bugs besides the flag desync issue for
over a year. Before we release again how much testing has the game had?
I haven't had a chance to test the game extensively since genix merged
his latest changes into CVS but I personally have only noticed one bug
since then (escape key not working in map editor) which has been
resolved and not much new on the bug-tracker. This means either the
current version is pretty stable or no one is playing it. Anyone know
which is the case? On a similar note, another thing we may wish to do is
clear out the bug tracker. Some of the reported bugs there are over two
years old and so have either been already fixed and not updated, or are
features no one is interested in applying, or are not able to be
reproduced. I was thinking that anything over a year old should probably
be cleaned out. 


On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 10:46 +0100, Stéphane Magnenat wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I think we should do a release soon, as we have plenty of new feature and no 
> release since a long time. I have some time next week I can use to make this 
> release.
> 
> But prior to a new release, we must be sure that the new code is stable. 
> People who play, do you have any comment on the new code ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Steph
> 
> P.S.  Perhaps we should drop the "alpha" for our release name, and only use 
> the 
> number, as the alpha term was used by choosen when thinking to a classical 
> 90ies game release cycle, which might not be true any more for a free 
> software game. Further more, it looks like it frightens people. What do you 
> think ?
> 
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