From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26940 invoked by alias); 5 Dec 2003 02:04:34 -0000 Mailing-List: contact xconq7-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: xconq7-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 26913 invoked from network); 5 Dec 2003 02:04:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail-out4.apple.com) (17.254.13.23) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 5 Dec 2003 02:04:34 -0000 Received: from mailgate1.apple.com (a17-128-100-225.apple.com [17.128.100.225]) by mail-out4.apple.com (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hB524Xnc001780 for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2003 18:04:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from scv1.apple.com (scv1.apple.com) by mailgate1.apple.com (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.1) with ESMTP id ; Thu, 4 Dec 2003 18:04:31 -0800 Received: from apple.com ([17.112.72.133]) by scv1.apple.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hB523uww021692; Thu, 4 Dec 2003 18:03:56 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3FCFE7BE.3030209@apple.com> Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 03:07:00 -0000 From: Stan Shebs User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Elijah Meeks CC: xconq7@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Miscellaneous Things References: <20031203222435.9712.qmail@web13122.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20031203222435.9712.qmail@web13122.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003/txt/msg00965.txt.bz2 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