Re: Is there anybody there?

[Frank Tore Johansen <frankj>]

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Raphael Quinet wrote:
> From my point of view, here is what should be done:
>  1) Get Frank's approval about this whole thing, or at least get some
>     comments form him.

A "Project team" or something similar sounds very nice to me.

>  2) Choose a new maintainer (if Frank is out of the race) then build a team
>     of a few programmers who will work on the core of the game until we have
>     something ready for the first new "official" distribution.

Volunteers?  I spotted a volunteer??  Please! 8)
And give the maintainer some freedom to distribute workload among the team
if he for some reason is busy?

>  2) Get the latest alpha or beta version from Frank.

I'll put it out permanently as
ftp.ifi.uio.no:/pub/crossfire/crossfire-0.90.0-alpha.tar.Z
(will be there within an hour)

>  5) Debug, debug, debug...

My local version _still_ has that malloc bug...It's real nasty.  Instead
of making the game crash, it puts crossfire strings among the X-variables
occasionally.  Like changing the name of the window to "food", or something
similar...

-Frank.