0.2.8.0_rc3: Release process and bugs

[slyshot]

Ok in rc4 i would LOVE it if there was tripple binding support in low turn speed servers, i press my tripple binded buttons on these servers and i turn once on barely double bind. another i would like to see the servers hosted in 2.7.1 because those dont appear on the list for me. ty for listening

[iceman]

not bugs but...

bookmarks:

when pressing b in the master server list to bookmark a server it would be nice to have some visual indication that it has happened like 'bookmarked' flash up as a cm or something

also in the list of bookmarked servers could you left justify the list and keep the font size small like in the main master server list

(players names in the silence menu and kick menu would look good if the same was done there too)

[Z-Man]

slyshot: Welcome!
Tripple binding should already work as far as the server allows it, the effect is of course minimal if CYCLE_DELAY is big. There is, however, a bug in turn handling that causes DB turns to be executed somewhat slower than intended, see here:
http://forums.armagetronad.net/viewtopi ... 6584f8f279

Which servers are you missing? Usually, when people complain about servers not appearing on the list, the servers simply are down

Iceman: I'll see if a quick center display does the trick for the notification, but the visual changes are risky and will have to wait.

[Z-Man]

CenterDisplay as bookmark notification does not work, it has no effect. Adding a "B " in front of the score for all bookmarked servers does work and is reasonably non-hacky. Would that be OK?
Adding it also uncovered a bug in the IsFavorite() function, it did count deleted bookmarks.

Before that comes up, preemtive strike: No, I can't make deleting bookmarks more comfortable than manually deleting the name right now.

[iceman]

sounds fine to me, how about triggering a sound when a bookmark is made ? would that be easier ?

[Phytotron]

I just wanted to check something. Is "glance forward" supposed to be in rc3? If so, where is it? If not, ignore me.

[Lucifer]

*ignored because meriton's camera work is bound for cvs head and will not be in 0.2.8*

[Invader]

RC3 is not looking good for me

The walls move when I turn (like sometimes i move half way across the grid :S). Othe rplays lag, I lag, my fps jump around like a monkey...no changes even when i turn everthing off.

I try beta4 and everything works fyne. any suggestions??

[Ghableska]

I'm not sure whether anyone has reported this or not but....
I was playing on CVS TEST SERVER: FORTRESS this morning and there was a tker and non grinder who wouldn't listen to us after repeated pleads to listen. So I initiated a kick poll against him. While people were still voting I (for some unfathomable reason) pressed enter on the disconnect button twice. This lets me leave the server and join it quickly again. After that, I discovered that I could vote again, so I did, and disconnected again, and I could vote again. I am not sure whether the repeated votes counted, but I just thought I should report it.

[Luke-Jr]

Some bugs in the current DTD...

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<!ATTLIST Resource
       type (aamap) "aamap"
       name CDATA #REQUIRED
       version CDATA "1.0"
       author CDATA "Anonymous"
       category CDATA "unsorted"
       comissioner CDATA #IMPLIED
>

When did 'version' go from #REQUIRED to "1.0"? Since the version is an important part of the resource (it *must* change when the resource does), any assumption is *wrong*.
Why is 'category' defaulting to "unsorted"? I recall we discussed whether it should default to "" or "unsorted", but I don't recall if there was a completion to the discussion and what justified the "unsorted" default...
I would also suggest we put 'author' back to #REQUIRED... Anonymous is a special category-- I don't think it's safe to assume it. I also noticed that someone added a "license" in comments to 'square'... Note that being under "Anonymous", it is *public domain*. "Anonymous" is for items which do not take creativity and thus do not even *qualify* for a copyright.
What is 'comissioner' and why is it spelled wrong?

[Luke-Jr]

Also, please be sure to upload releases when you add them to the release list! Apparently someone forgot to upload the Mac OS X 10.3+ rc3 file.

[philippeqc]

Some bugs in the current DTD...

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<!ATTLIST Resource
       type (aamap) "aamap"
       name CDATA #REQUIRED
       version CDATA "1.0"
       author CDATA "Anonymous"
       category CDATA "unsorted"
       comissioner CDATA #IMPLIED
>

When did 'version' go from #REQUIRED to "1.0"? Since the version is an important part of the resource (it *must* change when the resource does), any assumption is *wrong*.
Why is 'category' defaulting to "unsorted"? I recall we discussed whether it should default to "" or "unsorted", but I don't recall if there was a completion to the discussion and what justified the "unsorted" default...
I would also suggest we put 'author' back to #REQUIRED... Anonymous is a special category-- I don't think it's safe to assume it. I also noticed that someone added a "license" in comments to 'square'... Note that being under "Anonymous", it is *public domain*. "Anonymous" is for items which do not take creativity and thus do not even *qualify* for a copyright.
What is 'comissioner' and why is it spelled wrong?

version, author, category: No prob at all with your suggestions.
commissioner: Ok, it does appear that Merriam-Webster decribe it as something else than what I though it was.
The concept I wanted to grab is similar to when a patron request a painting from an artist. When someone draft a few lines and publish the image and another makes a map out of it, then the first person was "the commissioner" and the second is the author.
The idea came from Lucifer's crack pipe, where for each map presented, he would show "Map made by x on a idea from y" for each map. I wanted to capture this concept.
To your untold questions:
-Is there any mecanism associated with it: No. Not in the code. But if you count Lucifer's hack, indirectly yes.
-Is there a need: Yes, Lucifer demonstrated it on his server.
-Should it be kept: It doesn't block or hinder anything, and it allows for new capacities, so I'd say yes.

-ph

[Luke-Jr]

Some bugs in the current DTD...

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<!ATTLIST Resource
       type (aamap) "aamap"
       name CDATA #REQUIRED
       version CDATA "1.0"
       author CDATA "Anonymous"
       category CDATA "unsorted"
       comissioner CDATA #IMPLIED
>

When did 'version' go from #REQUIRED to "1.0"? Since the version is an important part of the resource (it *must* change when the resource does), any assumption is *wrong*.
Why is 'category' defaulting to "unsorted"? I recall we discussed whether it should default to "" or "unsorted", but I don't recall if there was a completion to the discussion and what justified the "unsorted" default...
I would also suggest we put 'author' back to #REQUIRED... Anonymous is a special category-- I don't think it's safe to assume it. I also noticed that someone added a "license" in comments to 'square'... Note that being under "Anonymous", it is *public domain*. "Anonymous" is for items which do not take creativity and thus do not even *qualify* for a copyright.
What is 'comissioner' and why is it spelled wrong?

version, author, category: No prob at all with your suggestions.

er... ok, so should I change them or...? o.O;;
(I was at least expecting some kind of reason 'category' had a non-blank default)

commissioner: Ok, it does appear that Merriam-Webster decribe it as something else than what I though it was.
The concept I wanted to grab is similar to when a patron request a painting from an artist. When someone draft a few lines and publish the image and another makes a map out of it, then the first person was "the commissioner" and the second is the author.
The idea came from Lucifer's crack pipe, where for each map presented, he would show "Map made by x on a idea from y" for each map. I wanted to capture this concept.

Perhaps <attribution work="concept">y</attribution> might work best, since it enables multiple and custom attributions? Not to mention it could allow placing attribution on specific elements (a wall?)

-Is there a need: Yes, Lucifer demonstrated it on his server.

...author=x...<attribution work="original map">y</attribution><attribution work="concept">z</attribution>
Map by x; original map by y; concept by z

-Should it be kept: It doesn't block or hinder anything, and it allows for new capacities, so I'd say yes.

I assumed it must have a purpose since you had added it in the first place... =p
Any reason not to move it to an attribution element?

[dlh]

Also, please be sure to upload releases when you add them to the release list! Apparently someone forgot to upload the Mac OS X 10.3+ rc3 file.

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[0.2.8.0_rc3] nemostultae@aabeta$ ls -l
total 26408
-rw-r--r--  1 z-man       armagetronad 1561175 Feb  5 16:06 armagetronad-0.2.8.0_rc3-1.i686-generic-linux-gnu.rpm
-rw-r--r--  1 z-man       armagetronad 1549329 Feb  5 16:08 armagetronad-0.2.8.0_rc3-1.src.rpm
-rwxr--r--  1 z-man       armagetronad 2466617 Feb  5 16:11 armagetronad-0.2.8.0_rc3.gcc.win32.exe
-rwxr-xr-x  1 z-man       armagetronad 1753461 Feb  5 16:12 armagetronad-0.2.8.0_rc3.i686-generic-linux-gnu.package
-rw-r--r--  1 nemostultae armagetronad 2678579 Feb  9 17:01 armagetronad-0.2.8.0_rc3.macosx.dmg
-rw-r--r--  1 z-man       armagetronad 1545454 Feb  5 16:14 armagetronad-0.2.8.0_rc3.src.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r--  1 z-man       armagetronad 1753492 Feb  5 16:16 armagetronad-0.2.8.0_rc3.src.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 z-man       armagetronad 1584476 Feb  5 16:18 armagetronad-0.2.8.0_rc3.src.zip
-rwxr--r--  1 z-man       armagetronad 2126242 Feb  5 16:20 armagetronad-0.2.8.0_rc3.vc6.win32.exe
-rwxr-xr-x  1 z-man       armagetronad 1541034 Feb  5 16:22 armagetronad-0.2.8.0_rc3.x86_64-generic-linux-gnu.package
-rw-r--r--  1 z-man       armagetronad  936094 Feb  5 16:23 armagetronad-dedicated-0.2.8.0_rc3-1.i686-generic-linux-gnu.rpm
-rwxr--r--  1 z-man       armagetronad 2108751 Feb  5 16:25 armagetronad-dedicated-0.2.8.0_rc3.gcc.win32.exe
-rwxr-xr-x  1 z-man       armagetronad 1114628 Feb  5 16:27 armagetronad-dedicated-0.2.8.0_rc3.i686-generic-linux-gnu.package
-rw-r--r--  1 nemostultae armagetronad 1374610 Feb  9 17:11 armagetronad-dedicated-0.2.8.0_rc3.macosx.dmg
-rwxr--r--  1 z-man       armagetronad 1937710 Feb  5 16:29 armagetronad-dedicated-0.2.8.0_rc3.vc6.win32.exe
-rwxr-xr-x  1 z-man       armagetronad  902884 Feb  5 16:30 armagetronad-dedicated-0.2.8.0_rc3.x86_64-generic-linux-gnu.package

nope.

[Luke-Jr]

Also, please be sure to upload releases when you add them to the release list! Apparently someone forgot to upload the Mac OS X 10.3+ rc3 file.

nope.

ls: download/0.2.8/0.2.8_rc3/armagetronad-dedicated-0.2.8.0_rc3.macosx.dmg: No such file or directory
ls: download/0.2.8/0.2.8_rc3/armagetronad-0.2.8.0_rc3.macosx.dmg: No such file or directory

Guess the releases.php entry just lacked a .0 on a directory... fixed