[Warzone-dev] Project rename, website changes
Hey, dev list and/or staff forums (This message has been sent out to both). I have several proposals for changes. First, the minor changes: - The site logo in the upper left should be updated to be inline with the new Warzone logo. It's the only place the old logo still appears. A new one, correctly sized, can be found here: http://forums.wz2100.net/viewtopic.php?f=3t=2990p=29583#p29583 - The Development tab should be removed, and the Trac tab should be renamed Development. I've already gone and merged the information from Development into WikiStart page, and we do not need that many tabs in the header. - It might help to add a Download tab between FAQ and User Guide. - The Blog _really_ isn't updated enough for its entire own tab. We mention new blog posts on the home page; I think that's enough. I think we should, however, find some way to merge the blog and the news system. - I believe the Warzone Guide is complete enough that it can directly replace the User Guide tab (so that the tab button takes users directly there). If there's a thematic issue, I can re-layout the Guide to match the current Warzone site. I can also add whatever information currently on the User Guide page to the Guide, if requested. Those changes should bring the Warzone site tabs to: Home | Download | FAQ | User Guide | Forums | Development Six tabs - not ideal, but better than the seven we currently have. And now, the major proposed change: Let's rename our project from Warzone 2100 Resurrection Project to Warzone 2100 Project (and the abbreviation from WRP to WZP). Reasons include: 1. At this point, after five years, there are no other Warzone 2100 projects - the only other one (Warzone 2200) is dead and never released anything at all, no binaries, not even any source. We are _the_ undisputed Warzone Project. 2. There's no confusion that we are affiliated with Pumpkin - Pumpkin's been gone for ages - anyone who has heard of the old Warzone and could potentially confuse us would know that. And if they don't, there's still the Project in there for disambiguation. 3. We are no longer resurrecting anything at this point. We have _succeeded_ in resurrecting Warzone and making a great cross-platform game out of it. Now, all we're doing is continuing the development of our successful project. We can signify this achievement by removing the word Resurrection from our name. 4. Resurrection is confusing to users who do not know our history. And I don't think it's important for your average Warzone to know the entire history of the project, however amazing that is. 5. New users (who have never heard of Warzone before) who visit the site may erroneously guess from the title that the game has something to do with resurrection. Project, on the other hand, leads users to the right direction for what the campaign is about. 6. It's much shorter. So, what does everyone think? I would _really_ like your feedback on these. -Zarel ___ Warzone-dev mailing list Warzone-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/warzone-dev
Re: [Warzone-dev] Project rename, website changes
On 6/16/09, Zarel zarelxx...@gmail.com wrote: - The site logo - The Development tab should be removed, and the Trac tab should be renamed Development. - It might help to add a Download tab between FAQ and User Guide. - The Blog _really_ isn't updated enough for its entire own tab. works for me-- but you have to convince Kamaze, since, I think he is the only one that can make the changes. - I believe the Warzone Guide is complete enough that it can directly replace the User Guide tab (so that the tab button takes users directly there). If there's a thematic issue, I can re-layout the Guide to match the current Warzone site. I can also add whatever information currently on the User Guide page to the Guide, if requested. I don't really mind one way or the other, if you redo it, it would fit in with the theme, but if the theme changes again, then what? Let's rename our project from Warzone 2100 Resurrection Project to Warzone 2100 Project (and the abbreviation from WRP to WZP). Reasons include: I don't need reasons, I never liked 'WRP', and have expressed my feelings on this subject many times over my tenure of being associated with this project. ___ Warzone-dev mailing list Warzone-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/warzone-dev
Re: [Warzone-dev] Project rename, website changes
whatever... just dont be blowing it all out of proportion - and how soon is the next release?? better a release than worrying about little stuff... On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 10:42 PM, bugs buggybuginato...@gmail.com wrote: On 6/16/09, Zarel zarelxx...@gmail.com wrote: - The site logo - The Development tab should be removed, and the Trac tab should be renamed Development. - It might help to add a Download tab between FAQ and User Guide. - The Blog _really_ isn't updated enough for its entire own tab. works for me-- but you have to convince Kamaze, since, I think he is the only one that can make the changes. - I believe the Warzone Guide is complete enough that it can directly replace the User Guide tab (so that the tab button takes users directly there). If there's a thematic issue, I can re-layout the Guide to match the current Warzone site. I can also add whatever information currently on the User Guide page to the Guide, if requested. I don't really mind one way or the other, if you redo it, it would fit in with the theme, but if the theme changes again, then what? Let's rename our project from Warzone 2100 Resurrection Project to Warzone 2100 Project (and the abbreviation from WRP to WZP). Reasons include: I don't need reasons, I never liked 'WRP', and have expressed my feelings on this subject many times over my tenure of being associated with this project. ___ Warzone-dev mailing list Warzone-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/warzone-dev ___ Warzone-dev mailing list Warzone-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/warzone-dev
[Warzone-dev] 2.2.1 to be released on the 21st?
I feel that a 2.2.1 release on June 21st is a good target date. Besides the usual bug fixes, the biggest fix (most noticeable) is the seam fix, and the biggest thing that will help *us* is the improved crash dump file (on windows linux), which will now give us much more info than we ever had before, and hopefully help us fix things faster. Debian has not uploaded 2.2.0 yet either, so 2.2.1 should propagate rather easily. Oh, 2.2.1 will (should) also have working Mac .wz support (untested), see http://developer.wz2100.net/changeset/7754 ___ Warzone-dev mailing list Warzone-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/warzone-dev
