I am out of the loop too, but speeding up rollouts (i.e. using modern multicores) seems like a worthy improvement.
-Joseph On Wed, 4 Dec 2019 at 07:08, Øystein Schønning-Johansen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Sarah! > > Thanks for taking contact. Good to hear that you like GNU Backgammon. > Is it still under development? Hmmm... debatable. There has not been many > major improvements the last few years. > > Take a look at the projects ChangeLog. > http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/gnubg/gnubg/ChangeLog?revision=1.2654&view=markup > > As you see there isn't much happening. > > Of course you can contribute if you want. After all this project is Open > Source an anyone can do whatever changes they want. > Just post comments here on the mailing list, and it can shear up some of the > sleeping developers. > > If you are a developer and want to contribute with code, we can of course > provide you write access to the cvs repository. (Yes, it is as old that it's > using cvs to do code revision). > Since everyone is more or less "sleeping", there is no real TODO list. Maybe > some code janitor work? Refactoring? Maybe c99-ify some of the code. Maybe > you can suggest a feature? Or report a bug? > > Even though I'm not doing much on GNU Backgammon (I've not done much the last > 10 years) these days, I guess if we just chat about some details, it might be > the spark that starts up a new motivation among us. There are some > discussions still on this mailing list, last week there was a new Match > Equity Table presented (Thanks Ian). If we just chat more, maybe something > can start flowing again. I'm getting more time as my kids grow older. So, who > knows what happens. > > Best regards, > -Øystein > > > On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 3:58 PM Sarah Payne <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hello there. Been a huge fan for many years of gnu backgammon, many thanks >> to everyone involved. Is the software still under development with new >> versions coming? Is it possible to contribute directly to this project? >> >> >> >> Thanks >> >> >> >> Sarah >> >> >> >> Sent from Mail for Windows 10 >> >>
