StendhalDevelopmentBlog: Difference between revisions

== New Home ==

<div style="border: 2px solid green; padding: 1em">We have moved the development blog to the [https://codeberg.org/arianne/stendhal/src/branch/master/doc/CHANGES.txt changes.txt] file and the [https://mastodon.social/@stendhalgame @stendhalgame@mastodon.social].</div><br/>

== Year 2009 ==

'''Database maintenance'''<br/>

We are going to convert all MySQL tables from MyIsam to InnoDB. MyIsam is the default table engine in MySQL but it does not support transactions which sporadically leads to failed account creations. Several database operations are not possible at the moment because MyIsam always locks the complete table for concurrent access which in turn causes huge lag in game.

--[[User:Hendrik Brummermann|Hendrik Brummermann]] 10:30, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

'''Hudson used for continuous integration'''<br/>

Since this summer we use hudson for regular building of stendhal. You can find it [http://stendhal.game-host.org/hudson here]. A documentation on how to configure hudson is placed [[HudsonTestServer|here]] in the wiki.

--[[User:Madmetzger|Madmetzger]] 19:44, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

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'''NPC available on the web'''<br/>

Information and pictures of NPCs are now available on the [http://stendhal.game-host.org/?id=content/game/npcs website]. It is now possible to include information and pictures of NPC (like <npc>Margaret</npc>) into the wiki as well. Thanks to Hamtaro, most of the quests on the StendhalQuests page already contain such popup.

--[[User:Hendrik Brummermann|Hendrik Brummermann]] 10:30, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

'''[[User:Hendrik Brummermann|Hendrik Brummermann]], 20 Sep. 2008'''<br>

The wiki is now hosted on the game server. Apart from it now being much faster and more responsive it allows us to integrate it with the normal game server web site and the game itself. As a first step it is now possible to include data about creatures (like <creature>bear|bears</creature>), items (like the mighty <item>rod of the gm</item>) and players (like the dutiful <player>postman</player>). Have a look at the test page [[Sandbox/StendhalDataInclude Test]] for more details.

'''[[User:Kymara|Kymara]], 20 June 2008'''<br>

We got the http://stendhal.game-host.org/ working with live game data from the server. Players love looking up the stats of other players! The new Hall of Fame categories have been well received too. Players can login and change their password, before this could only be done through mysql, i.e. it needed a server admin. Oh, and ignore what I thought below about the News and Events - I was confused. We fiddled the permissions and now *game* admins of adminlevel >= 400 can login and edit the News, Events, etc. This is great, it means we can easily announce raids and meetings. We also decided to add the detail of 'Server time' to the website to make it easier to specify what time any event occurs.

We're experimenting with a new planning tool called plone. At the moment we're using it to decide what should be in the next release, 0.69. It's at http://stendhalxplanner.homelinux.net/ though please note only logged in users with sufficient permissions set can really see the plans.

'''--[[User:Kymara|Kymara]], 12 March 2008'''<br>

We recently appeared on the front page of [http://sourceforge.net sf.net]!!!

Our [http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=785542 news article] for the release of 0.67 was featured as a project news. If you go to [http://sourceforge.net/news/index.php?group_id=0 the news headline summary] and then click Older headlines you will find us.

Over the last year we've been consistently in the top 20 of [http://sourceforge.net/top/mostactive.php?type=week Most Active Projects] (out of 170,000 projects) per week. Congrats all!