Re: [Alephmodular-devel] Greetings

[Br'fin <br...@ma...>]

On Sunday, December 15, 2002, at 03:59  PM, Matt Lee wrote:

>> Happen to have any ideas for the project? Either details or testing  
>> suggestions? I admit I don't have a test plan or even much in the way  
>> of documents for the current state of AlephModular.
>
> Well, I think it would be best to model AM after successful open  
> source projects, as opposed to those that are less organized. (not  
> naming any names :)  As such, since AM is just starting out, a roadmap  
> or similar idea in the manner of Mozilla might be good.
>
> I know you laid out some possible targets on the A1 list, but perhaps  
> a Web version that could be updated as things get accomplished. I can  
> help with this. Which leads me to my next question... does AM have a  
> Web site or just the sourceforge project page?

That's a grand idea. I have concepts in mind for the roadmap. But  
haven't really figured out *where* and *how* to display them. For  
instance, most of the info on milestone 0.3 is simply in the list  
archive on SourceForge for this mailing list.

The highlights of the roadmap are roughly

	0.1 it compiles
	0.2 it runs (current state)
	0.3 beat the code into shape
	0.4 beat platform handling into shape
	0.5 begin modularization

Somewhere around 0.5-0.6 is probably the right place to get networking  
working initially. It's far enough out that anything beyond that for  
milestones is flexible for priorities. (For instance Marathon infinity  
compatibility, open GL support, blowing the limits off maps, and/or  
AlephOne compatibility (which strikes me as a post 1.0 type goal)

AM does have a website, http://alephmodular.sourceforge.net/. I didn't  
really have anything to say yet or any idea how to arrange it so it's  
just blank. Enough there to say 'Yeah, we should have something here'

> In the way of documentation, I haven't looked at the source yet, but  
> from what I know already, there's not much to say other than what  
> works right now (covered in the Read Me), what's changed in the code,  
> and targets for the next release or two. Right?

There's also a documentation directory in the source tree. I put a  
couple of notes within it. One is a description of how I've been doing  
serializing of data to/from files in AM. The other was a report on how  
different parts of Marathon used files. The README that accompanies the  
source also has a rough FAQ, trying to explain 'Why AlephModular?'  
instead of just working within AlephOne.

-Jeremy
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