Re: Miscellaneous Things

[Stan Shebs <shebs@apple.com>]

Elijah Meeks wrote:

>
>2)  Would it be useful to start an Xconq sourceforge
>project?  Not for the program per se, which seems to
>do fine here, but more for designers and players.  I
>think the forums and the exposure would be worthwhile.
> We could set it to coincide with 7.5, perhaps.  Good
>idea, bad idea? 
>
Sourceforge is not that reliable; we actually get better quality of
service by relying on Red Hat's generosity in hosting this.

The most important way to get visibility is to "release early and often".
7.5 doesn't have to be perfect, because only 5% of the audience will
take note of the announce anyway; but 10% will notice the 7.5.1
message, having been primed by the 7.5 release, and so forth. Since
there hasn't been a release in a long time, most people will assume
Xconq is a dead project and not even look to see what's up with it.

This is as good a place as any to talk about release philosophy; make
it doesn't crash instantly on any platform you plan to release for, and
that you can play a game through to the end, put up binary and source
tarballs, and post messages to freshmeat, Usenet, Linux game tome,
etc. and you're done. There's no special magic involved, and if some
people hit a bug, there's the excuse for 7.5.1... :-)

Stan