On Mon, 1 Oct 2012 01:03:59 PM Lone_Wolf wrote: > Check out this thread in the "open discussion' forum : > http://sourceforge.net/projects/freecol/forums/forum/719661/topic/5897636 .
I had seen it, and chosen to ignore it. This happens regularly. See the thread about 6 topics below it `Update soon', and the one below that `FreeCol 10.6'. Note also that sourceforge is prone to trolls, particularly anonymous ones. > Imo freecol is far from dead, but i have to agree with the anonymous > poster that on the surface it may LOOK dead. *I* look dead if you try to measure a pulse in my shoes. Thank you for your post pointing out a much more reliable way of determining whether a project has been abandoned. If anyone feels the need to follow up, you can also point to the fact that any bug report is usually responded to within a few days, and that there is regular traffic on this list. If the anonymous poster thinks a project is dead if it has a 6 or so month release gap, FreeCol has been dead for much of its existence, as has Microsoft Windows. > Maybe a news item (possibly linking to a forum topic that should be kept > updated) about blockers for the next release would help ? It might. http://www.freecol.org/roadmap.html certainly seems to be ignored. But who is going to do that? FreeCol is a volunteer project. Nothing ever gets done unless someone wants to do it. Speaking for myself, I like coding, and write FreeCol code for fun. I do not like deadlines, milestones and status reporting --- I get quite enough of that at work. FTR, IMHO the release status remains as I stated in the `FreeCol 10.6' topic. We still have serious AI bugs. > Compiling a trunk version in the same way a release is made and making > that available for download regularly (say once a month) might also help There are people doing that in some of the forums, and good for them. What would convince me that the FreeCol project should have a regular trunk release would be fewer bug reports where it is unclear what version is being used. Apropos of which, thank you for your high quality bug reports. When 0.10.6 does get released it will be the better for your contribution. Cheers, Mike Pope
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