[Slashem-devel] Re: slash'em feature track

[J. A. H. <al...@av...>]

On Thu, 05 Apr 2001, you wrote:
> >Yup. This is a bug. Cameras should be listed as
> >chargeable, and they aren't. 
> 
> Glad I mentioned it.  Surprised no-one noticed 
> while playing Tourist, though..

I suspect it is the general malise of users. Everybody thinks that somebody
else _must_ have reported the problem and so nobody actually does. Actually,
Slash'EM users are better than most in this regard. We get a lot of bugs
reported against Slash'EM which turn out to be unreported bugs in vanilla
NetHack. Considering that there are many more NetHack players than Slash'EM
players (at least, so I assume), that's quite surprising.

> Was looking over your SourceForge site... Do you 
> guys use the Feature Track?  I have a couple 
> suggestions but didn't post, since likely they're 
> things that have been discussed already.  For 
> example, adding text to the "Nethack Dictionary" 
> for more of the new items and monsters.  If it's 
> just a lack of manpower I would be glad to help 
> by putting together some drafts for your devteam 
> to look at.

Yeah, we look at them. They are quite a new feature of Sourceforge, so we
haven't made much use of them yet.

There's always a problem of manpower :-) Especially with feature requests,
unless it happens to spark the interest of a developer even the best feature
may wait a long time before being implemented (or indeed rejected).

If you have a number of entries you'd like to add to the dictionary and you
would be able to create a patch to implement them then the best way to proceed
would be to write a proposal of the changes you wanted to make. Send this
proposal to slashem-devel and wait. Chances are that you won't get any replies
(which just means that noone objects). Allow a couple of weeks just in case and
then submit the patch to the patch tracker. After verifying that the patch does
what your proposal said it would do I'll apply it to the development branch.

Cheers,

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