Please help make spring better by playing spring.

[imbaczek]

UPDATE:

/join #playtest

and read its topic for great testing justice. currently (15-02-2009) testing:
http://planetspring.free.fr/spring/inst ... a3075e.exe.

see also: http://spring.clan-sy.com/phpbb/viewtop ... 16&t=17393




http://spring.clan-sy.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=12001

In response to Tobi's complaint (and his lack of time) I'd like to engage the players (read: drop some responsibility from myself) in testing. The easiest way to do so is to play some games using the latest svn build of the game, found here. I'd love to see some high-level players (that's you, ladder guys) help to find bugs and report problems. I know that I, and other devs probably too, when implementing a feature or fixing a bug, don't have anyone to test it with (and don't have the time to do so), but when you guys play a game or two once in a while, you'll find those corner cases. You could even open a ladder specifically for the svn version of spring, this would allow us to see how much testing it got. This would help tremendously, especially now, since 75b3 has been cooking for 3 months now and it's nearly ready, with lots of old bugs fixed and probably lots of new introduced. If you find those new ones, you'll help in making of the best release of spring ever.

Players who don't participate in ladders can help, too. I've seen several people yesterday who came to the test server, unfortunately we were ingame already. Thanks for coming, though. Note that you can still play on the test server even when there's no scheduled test session. Bring a friend, duke it out, post the results and bugs you find.

(Note that currently unitsync is broken and the game crashes when trying to host, but copying 75b2 unitsync over fixes that. The test lobby server is available at buildbot.no-ip.org port 8200. Test server topic: http://spring.clan-sy.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=10555)

[Tobi]

Also note that current test versions may require you to fix your old Spring this way after having used new Spring first time:
1) Make a folder fonts in the spring directory.
2) Copy Luxi.ttf in there.

[knorke]

So, where is the download?

[imbaczek]

http://buildbot.no-ip.org/~buildbot/spring/installer/

[imbaczek]

bump for great justice.

test builds of spring should now be able to host games fine, replays also should work. please play and report problems.

[Neddie]

The link seems to be broken from my location.

[Auswaschbar]

osrts seems to be completely down, even the test server

[Tobi]

Domain expired; use buildbot.no-ip.org instead.

[imbaczek]

fixed my posts. the test lobby server also runs on buildbot.no-ip.org.

[rattle]

bump for great justice.

Sticky the thread for even greater justice.

[NOiZE]

bump for great justice.

Sticky the thread for even greater justice.

Stickyfied

[Auswaschbar]

Update:
We want to make a new release someday, so we need your help again.
Please test the new installer downloadable from:
http://planetspring.free.fr/spring/inst ... vn7171.exe

Some remarks:

• new settings will be stored in a file instead of the registry, so your settings will be default-ed
• you can use the test server 82.239.138.44:8300
• please tell us all the bugs you find via forum or mantis

[lurker]

There are two different servers up at taspringmaster.servegame.com, 8200 and 8300? And when there is a recognizable url why are you giving the ip?

And there doesn't seem to be a single server running... are we backup-free right now?

[Pxtl]

slightly offtopic but:

new settings will be stored in a file instead of the registry, so your settings will be default-ed[/list]

HALLELUJAH!

[Auswaschbar]

There are two different servers up at taspringmaster.servegame.com, 8200 and 8300?

8200 is the backup server, 8300 is the testing server

And when there is a recognizable url why are you giving the ip?

Because I cannot remember the URL and springlobby only saves the IP.

[lurker]

Well, seems it's back up today.

Why run two? Seems like a waste of ram to me.

Springlobby saves urls for me.

I'll help once my desktop is unpacked.

[MidKnight]

broken links, outdated information

[imbaczek]

updated first post

[Auswaschbar]

Please help testing so we can make a new release in the near future.

http://planetspring.free.fr/spring/inst ... d6ed81.exe

[Noooooo]

Maybe I am wrong - but isn't 0.78.2.1.x a bit outdated, since 0.79.1.2 is the actual release?

Or did I miss something?