Re: [Opengate-svn] 0.0.1 alpha

[Christoph B. <eg...@gm...>]

Am Donnerstag, den 30.11.2006, 16:49 +0100 schrieb Gary Luck:
> Tim Beelen wrote:
>  > With a basic GUI, simple basic client to server connectivity I'm
>  > suggesting we call it our first Alpha.
> 
> agreed
> 
>  > After I finished the major code cleanup (including rebranching the
>  > source which will take up to a week, maybe 2) I think we can start
>  > documenting our progress thus-far and set goals for the next Beta :]
> 
> next alpha, not beta. The betas should be accessable by the public because we need the public for 
> testing purpose. But we don't need to make our alpha versions public.
> 
>  > I suggest to send some invites after finishing the GUI and releasing the
>  > first official Alpha codebase.
> 
> we could ask on sourceforge again, but we should take some time before we make noise about our project 
> by releasing a first version. We don't wan't to do NetDevil any harm by stealing their paying players. 
> My suggestion would be to make the first release as soon as Jumpgate died anyway. Since a few weeks I am 
> drawing statistics about the jumpgate activity status (how many people are still registered). Till now 
> it seams as Jumpgate will die anyway. So just give it some more time and NetDevil won't be able to make 
> us guilty for loosing income.

I can totally agree with that. I don't want to harm NetDevil in any way.
But I don't see any harm when we would release the first alpha as is.
You can do exactly nothing like in Jumpgate. I think releasing the
codebase as alpha is okay. No binaries. No support. No nothing.
The first beta is targeted after the end of Jumpgate which might be
within the next year. One major step before the release: Remove/rename
ANYTHING that might be protected under any copyright of NetDevil
(especially names like "Solrain", etc.)