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Line 106: == 17. What is your development environment like? == Most core developers run Linux. Microsoft Windows, however, is used by many contributors. Eclipse is the most commonly used IDE in the project., ~~Although~~although our project leader is sticking resolutely to Emacs. The nice thing about Eclipse is that you can change a couple of lines of code and test them immediately without having to recompile the complete project. We use ant for compiling the code outside the IDE and for creating the distribution. We also use Hudson for continuous integration and automatic testing. The CIA Bot and the Hudson Bots in our IRC channel keep us informed about what is going on in the code. Line 143: A nice thing about the Arianne project is that a number of people with different interests and skills are working together. Lets start with a group of contributions that is easily overlooked but is very important: Feedback, bug reports, feature requests, ideas. Even support requests are helpful because they show us in which places our software is not as easy to use as we want it to be. So we try to make it as convenient as possible for people to provide feedback. The Sourceforge tracker is a good place to open tickets. Or if someone prefers to chat with us, we have a link to our chat room on the project website. In Stendhal we try to have at least one new quest per release. Most of the work required to add a quest, however, is not related to writing code. ~~But it~~It is on a creative level, creating a nice little story that fits into the world. Then the text the NPCs are going to say needs to be written down. ~~Sometime~~Sometimes new items are required which in turn need ~~graphic images~~graphics. After all those parts are thrown together, the new quests needs lots of testing. Especially testing by people not knowing the inner logic of the program code. On a more technical level patches and code contributions are very welcome. The source code is well documented and we are happy to answer questions. Those with artistic skills are the people who make Stendhal a beautiful place. Stendhal has very nice and original graphics and music. Line 192: ; Name : Yuriy Krawtsow aka yoriy ; SourceForge user page URL : ~~https~~http://sourceforge.net/users/yoriy ; Occupation : C/C++ coder and system administrator of nix systems ; Education : Federal Technical University Line 205: ; Location: Germany ; Photo : - == 24. Why did you place the project on SourceForge.net? == The Arianne project was moved to SourceForge 10 years ago in January 2000. There are little records left of the pre SourceForge days. This is proof that moving to SourceForge was a good decision because there has been no ~~dataloss~~data loss ever since. Today we are still very happy with this decision. == 25. How has SourceForge.net helped your project succeed? == SourceForge provides a number of very useful tools for developing and sharing free software: version control systems, a very easy to use bug and feature tracker, web hosting, mailing lists, forums, and the file release system. Just to name the most important ones. All those things ~~just~~ work out of the box and are very reliable. If we had to setup and maintain installations of these services ourselves, we would have a lot less time to concentrate on our project. And it is obvious that this communication related infrastructure plays a key role in both coordinating development and getting the word out to our users. == 26. The number one benefit of using SourceForge.net is == Line 233 ⟶ 232: == Feedback == (That's all the POTM questions for you, but there's one more thing we'd like to ask. How are we doing? You've got our ear, so let us know how we can make SourceForge the best it can be. Go ahead, be honest. We can take it!) I am concerned about those ads asking for personal information when trying to download software. For people with little technical background those input formulas look like something required by us / SourceForge.▼ * More support for file releases of umbrella projects like Arianne. Most people are interested in Stendhal. So we like to have the Stendhal related files show up prominently in the green section above the folder structure. This basically means we can only do releases of Marauroa and Marboard exactly one day before a Stendhal release. In the past it was possible to use the "touch" command as workaround to set the file date into the past, but that does not work anymore. There are ideatorrent entries on this already: https://sourceforge.net/apps/ideatorrent/sourceforge/ideatorrent/idea/478/ and perhaps https://sourceforge.net/apps/ideatorrent/sourceforge/ideatorrent/idea/477/ ▲* IThe amsoftware ~~concerned~~download ~~about~~pages ~~those~~sometimes contain ads ~~asking~~which ask for personal information ~~when trying to download software~~. For people with little technical background those input formulas look like something required by us / SourceForge, and it worries us.