Spring RTS Engine

What's SMP an acronym for anyway? "Spring Multi-Processor"?

SwiftSpear wrote:Spring doesn't really have the luxury of forcing developers to do stuff for us. We can call something "priority" but that doesn't actually make any developer start working on it.

Just the same, if someone comes here and decides to help out, what are the odds he's going to find things that really need to be done, compared to the odds he goes to feature-requests and finds the latest guy begging for... boobs on krogoths or something? I do not see an easily-visible community agreed-upon wishlist of items that need the most attention, there's only a feature request board which is mostly full of ridiculous stuff and a dev forum that's full of in-depth discussion about things people are already working on.

Even if you come back and say, "here's the list, look everyone caydr's a blind twit", if it's not in an easily-visible location it's still just proving my point.

^im with stupid^

Caydr wrote:What's SMP an acronym for anyway? "Spring Multi-Processor"?

SwiftSpear wrote:Spring doesn't really have the luxury of forcing developers to do stuff for us. We can call something "priority" but that doesn't actually make any developer start working on it.

Just the same, if someone comes here and decides to help out, what are the odds he's going to find things that really need to be done, compared to the odds he goes to feature-requests and finds the latest guy begging for... boobs on krogoths or something? I do not see an easily-visible community agreed-upon wishlist of items that need the most attention, there's only a feature request board which is mostly full of ridiculous stuff and a dev forum that's full of in-depth discussion about things people are already working on.

Even if you come back and say, "here's the list, look everyone caydr's a blind twit", if it's not in an easily-visible location it's still just proving my point.

Caydyr...
I'd say the odds are pretty good.
I mean eeveryone was all "BAWWWWWWW" over spring needing SMP[see example http://spring.clan-sy.com/phpbb/viewtop ... 10&t=14618, ]and then zerver comes out of nowhere and just rocks out. he rocks out enough the devs commit it. fo 'schizzle.
That's the beuty of random people adding shit, the dev's still have to commit it.

Besides man, If some random dousche comes by and decides spring needs fullyu fledged Hardware accelerated particle based dynamic rain, and they implement it in an unobtrusive way, Heck YES it needs to be in the next commit!
That's like someone giving you $5 and your like "Nah man, I NEED Twenty, I can'y just save this man, you don't get it."

I believe spring HAS to use SMP. Not just MP, or multi threading.
This is due to the fact certain date has to be sychronized, ESPECIALLY online data Imethinks.

Yeah... think I'm going off on a tangent here aren't I.

Since the topic's cleared up now I'm now mainly talking about our lack of a proper roadmap. It's good to have random submissions and whatnot, cool stuff happens when people spontaneously do stuff, but I still think we need a place where people of knowledge and experience can decide what items should be considered a high priority should someone feel like coding them. Perhaps it already exists and I just can't find it.

I should make a separate thread, regardless...

Caydr wrote:Yeah... think I'm going off on a tangent here aren't I.

Since the topic's cleared up now I'm now mainly talking about our lack of a proper roadmap. It's good to have random submissions and whatnot, cool stuff happens when people spontaneously do stuff, but I still think we need a place where people of knowledge and experience can decide what items should be considered a high priority should someone feel like coding them. Perhaps it already exists and I just can't find it.

I should make a separate thread, regardless...

This has been discussed before, the main point of the discussion was how a roadmap doesn't help because someone has to program it, and in an open-source environment people will code whatever they want to code.