Re: [CsMain] CS data files audit post 2.0 release

2011-12-29 Thread Denis Washington
This is a bit off-topic, but I noticed that all threads in the last weeks were cross-posted to the crystal-main and crystal-develop lists, which leads to the unfortunate situation that I (and probably others, too) get most of the messages and replies twice. As I haven't seen any post that speci

Re: [CsMain] CS 2.0 beta 1 released - As scheduled and on time. ; -)

2011-12-10 Thread Denis Washington
Am 11.12.2011 08:08, schrieb Jorrit Tyberghein: > Well this is only the first 2.0beta release. Not the final one yet. I'm > sure we will > have nice release notes with the real 2.0 release :-) > > First we need people to test this release so that we can solve all bugs > and issues > and make a nice

Re: [CsMain] CS 2.0 beta 1 released - As scheduled and on time. ; -)

2011-12-10 Thread Denis Washington
Am 10.12.2011 21:08, schrieb Philip Wyett: > Hi all, > > The time has come and it's on the servers. > > CS 2.0 beta 1 is here and needs your compiling and testing. > > If your an svn user please use it rather than download and checkout the > 2.0 branch instead. > > For all others, you can find the

Re: [CsMain] CS 3.0

2011-11-24 Thread Denis Washington
Am 25.11.2011 07:00, schrieb Philip Wyett: > Hi all, > > You know when CS 2.0 will be released; and the schedule for 6 monthly > support releases is now known. > > Lets talk about CS 3.0. Your plans all sound great! That's the kind of release management I always hoped CS to have. Thanks for that!

Re: [CsMain] Namespace confusion

2011-08-17 Thread Denis Washington
Am 17.08.2011 15:10, schrieb res: >> While working on the proposed new CS website (see my other message), I >> dipped into CS itself again. I thereby realized that some classes are in >> sub-namespaces of "CS", while a whole lot of others are not namespaced >> at all, but are prefixed with "cs". I

[CsMain] Namespace confusion

2011-08-17 Thread Denis Washington
Hi, While working on the proposed new CS website (see my other message), I dipped into CS itself again. I thereby realized that some classes are in sub-namespaces of "CS", while a whole lot of others are not namespaced at all, but are prefixed with "cs". I find this to be very confusing, espec

[CsMain] Who hosts the current website?

2011-08-17 Thread Denis Washington
Hi, As Google Summer of Code ends this week, I would have a lot of time to get the proposed new website up to speed. I am going update all the code I've written to work with Drupal 7 and spice up the theme while I'm at it. After that (could take a while), we could finally put a test instance of

Re: [CsMain] Half-baked idea: Dropping the superfluous?

2011-08-16 Thread Denis Washington
Am 16.08.2011 11:09, schrieb Jorrit Tyberghein: > As such this is not a bad idea and it is in fact something that we have > done a few times > in the past already. However, as usual things are not that simple. It is > a bit hard to decide > which modules are not part of the core and then a harder p

[CsMain] Half-baked idea: Dropping the superfluous?

2011-08-16 Thread Denis Washington
; move might help to invest development efforts on what is really important and, in the end, deliver a through-and-through high quality product with CS 2.0. What do you think? Regards, Denis Washington -- uberSVN&#x

Re: [CsMain] webpage?

2011-07-27 Thread Denis Washington
Am 27.07.2011 18:05, schrieb Christian Van Brussel: > On Sun, 2011-07-17 at 20:50 -0700, Matthew Lagoe wrote: >> Just wondering what else is needed to get the new CS website up and >> running, may be able to give a hand if needed. > > Probably still many things to do: migrate the current CS forums,

Re: [CsMain] [Website Proposal] How to go forward?

2011-04-24 Thread Denis Washington
Am 25.04.2011 00:42, schrieb Mike Gist: > Hi Dennis, > > What's your status on this? Busy or still waiting or? Waiting; I have not been given any access yet. (Although this might turn to "somewhat busy" in the summer if I get accepted to GSoC. Nevertheless, I would probably still have some time

[CsMain] What about the new website?

2011-04-01 Thread Denis Washington
Hi, I was reading about 2.0 having branched on the mailing list, thinking about how it might be nice to have the renewed website I was working on some months ago in place for the first pre-release, I was wondering how the infrastructure work planned by Andres was coming along. Andres, is there

Re: [CsMain] Advice for a GSoC idea

2011-03-27 Thread Denis Washington
Am 27.03.2011 22:44, schrieb Antony Martin: > Hi! > > Majoring in computer science at the Université de Strasbourg (France), I'm > completing the french equivalent of a 2nd year bachelor's degree. I'm a > self-taught 3D programmer for 5 years and I'm working on a personnal 3D > engine. > It is mad

Re: [CsMain] [Website Proposal] How to go forward?

2011-03-10 Thread Denis Washington
rote: > On Wednesday 05 January 2011 17:13:05 Denis Washington wrote: >> How should we proceed with the website proposal? If there are no >> objections, I would love to put it on a subdirectory of >> crystalspace3d.org <http://crystalspace3d.org> (/beta per

Re: [CsMain] [Website Proposal] How to go forward?

2011-01-05 Thread Denis Washington
On 06.01.2011 00:46, Andres Freund wrote: > Hi Denzel, > > On Wednesday 05 January 2011 17:13:05 Denis Washington wrote: >> How should we proceed with the website proposal? If there are no >> objections, I would love to put it on a subdirectory of >> crystalspace3d.org

[CsMain] [Website Proposal] How to go forward?

2011-01-05 Thread Denis Washington
Hi, How should we proceed with the website proposal? If there are no objections, I would love to put it on a subdirectory of crystalspace3d.org (/beta perhaps) and try to import all users and forum posts of the current webpage to see if it works out well. What do you think? Denis

Re: [CsMain] [Website Proposal] Finished!

2010-12-29 Thread Denis Washington
On 28.12.2010 21:09, Mike Gist wrote: > Probably worth doing the feature list for 2.0, as I don't believe > there's any major outstanding feature blocking that now. This brings me to another point: I think we should release the new website with a first pre-release of the 2.0 series. That way we

Re: [CsMain] [Website Proposal] Finished!

2010-12-28 Thread Denis Washington
On 28.12.2010 16:36, Christian Van Brussel wrote: > Great work, this new visual layout looks really nice. > > Some notes: > > * CS has actually 3 Trac's: one for CS, one for CEL and one for the > website (although the last one has actually almost never been used). > Maybe the website trac can be dr

Re: [CsMain] [Website Proposal] Finished!

2010-12-28 Thread Denis Washington
On 28.12.2010 15:46, Eric Sunshine wrote: > On 12/28/2010 9:15 AM, Denis Washington wrote: >> On 28.12.2010 14:58, Eric Sunshine wrote: >>> One note: The existing website has tens of thousands of bogus users >>> created by spambots. We don't want to transfer all

Re: [CsMain] [Website Proposal] Finished!

2010-12-28 Thread Denis Washington
On 28.12.2010 14:58, Eric Sunshine wrote: > On 12/28/2010 8:08 AM, Denis Washington wrote: >> As a late christmas present, let me tell you that I enabled Drupal users >> to log into the Trac instance. It is not single sign-on, unfortunately >> (I just cannot find out how to a

Re: [CsMain] [Website Proposal] Finished!

2010-12-28 Thread Denis Washington
Just for reference, the website proposal's address: http://crystalspace-test.dyndns-ip.com/ Denis On 28.12.2010 14:08, Denis Washington wrote: > Hello, > > As a late christmas present, let me tell you that I enabled Drupal users > to log into the Trac instance. It is n

[CsMain] [Website Proposal] Finished!

2010-12-28 Thread Denis Washington
Hello, As a late christmas present, let me tell you that I enabled Drupal users to log into the Trac instance. It is not single sign-on, unfortunately (I just cannot find out how to accomplish this, or if this actually is possible), but it still means that there is a single user database for t

[CsMain] [Website Proposal] Status update before Christmas

2010-12-16 Thread Denis Washington
Hi, Yet another update on the progress of the proposed new website: First of all, the screenshots on the front page are now clickable for a bigger preview and - if clicking on that - the image in its original size (which means we now seriously need more really beautiful demos for really beauti

[CsMain] [Website Proposal] Improved theme and short-term TODO list

2010-12-09 Thread Denis Washington
Hi, I have tweaked the theme of the CrystalSpace website proposal to feel less "empty". The page content is now surrounded by a blue-gradient background, and the containing box now casts a shadow. Feel free to take a look: http://72.37.220.156/ Furthermore, I have compiled a list of what I'

[CsMain] [Website Proposal] Migrated

2010-12-06 Thread Denis Washington
Hi, Thanks to awesome Matthew Lagoe (kudos!), I now have access to a virtual private server which has much better response times than the free hoster where the CrystalSpace website proposal lived before. I have now migrated everything over. From now on, the current version proposal can be foun

[CsMain] [Website Proposal] Basic MediaWiki theme

2010-12-04 Thread Denis Washington
Hi, I have added a MediaWiki instance to the on-line website proposal [1] some days ago and now gave it some basic integration into the website theme. Only the very basic elements are styled currently, but it's a start. The main navigation links are not hard-coded, but read straight from the D

Re: [CsMain] [Website Proposal] Uploaded for testing

2010-11-28 Thread Denis Washington
Am 28.11.2010 02:20, schrieb Matthew Lagoe: > got really crazy last few days what os do you want me to use? CentOS > Ubuntu Debian or ? > Debian would be just fine. :) Denis > On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Denis Washington wrote: > >> Am 25.11.2010 19:56,

Re: [CsMain] [Website Proposal] Uploaded for testing

2010-11-25 Thread Denis Washington
t 3:32 AM, Denis Washington wrote: >> Am 25.11.2010 11:52, schrieb Jorrit Tyberghein: >>> Looks very good! Nice job! >> Thanks. :) >> >>> A few remarks: >>>- Some links don't work (like 'More about Crystal Space') >> Oops, I never

Re: [CsMain] [Website Proposal] Uploaded for testing

2010-11-25 Thread Denis Washington
Am 25.11.2010 11:52, schrieb Jorrit Tyberghein: > Looks very good! Nice job! Thanks. :) > > A few remarks: > - Some links don't work (like 'More about Crystal Space') Oops, I never updated that dummy href... I need to link that to the About page. Thanks for pointing that out! > - When I se

[CsMain] [Website Proposal] Uploaded for testing

2010-11-25 Thread Denis Washington
Hi, I have created a webspace account at HelioHost (a free hosting provider; expect sluggishness and occasional downtimes) and uploaded my CrystalSpace website proposal at its current state. Currently, this is only the main Drupal page which I already showed screenshots of and which hasn't cha

Re: [CsMain] Proposed website: SMF => Drupal forum support working

2010-11-16 Thread Denis Washington
Am 17.11.2010 00:16, schrieb Esben Stien: > Denis Washington writes: > >> the forum software used by the CrystalSpace Forums > Does this new configuration support a gateway between the web forum and > mailing list?. For most of us, using a forum is a snowballs chance in >

Re: [CsMain] Proposed website: Trac theme

2010-11-14 Thread Denis Washington
Am 14.11.2010 15:01, schrieb Andres Freund: > On Saturday 13 November 2010 17:15:42 Denis Washington wrote: >> P.S.: Who is actually in charge of administring the current page? > That would be me - to some degree at least, because I don't really have time > these days. > >

[CsMain] Proposed website: Trac theme

2010-11-13 Thread Denis Washington
Hi, Today I played a bit with Trac and its themeing system, and after some fumbling I assembled a template and stylesheet that mildly modifies Trac to integrate well with my Drupal site. Screenshots here: http://www2.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~washingd/trac1.png http://www2.informatik.hu-berlin.d

[CsMain] Proposed website: SMF => Drupal forum support working

2010-11-12 Thread Denis Washington
Hi, I successfully imported a bunch of example users and posts from an SMF forum (the forum software used by the CrystalSpace Forums) to Drupal by first importing to phpBB with the SMF-to-phpBB converter [1] and then to Drupal with phpBB2Drupal [2]. I needed to change a few lines in the latter

Re: [CsMain] Why SCF?

2010-10-15 Thread Denis Washington
Am 15.10.2010 15:00, schrieb res: > On 14.10.2010 23:21, Denis Washington wrote: >> Being relatively new to CrystalSpace, I digged a bit deeper into the >> User's Manual again and came across the chapter about SCF. While having >> read it from beginning to end, I still

[CsMain] Why SCF?

2010-10-14 Thread Denis Washington
Hi, Being relatively new to CrystalSpace, I digged a bit deeper into the User's Manual again and came across the chapter about SCF. While having read it from beginning to end, I still don't have any clue about what this mechanism does bring to the table. I mean, what is the benefit to just d

Re: [CsMain] New website design and infrastructure

2010-10-13 Thread Denis Washington
I will just try to put something worthwhile together on my local computer, then. I'll report if I have made any substantial progress. Regards, Denis Am 12.10.2010 10:56, schrieb Matthew Lagoe: > I have said the same thing, i dont have the time to work on anything > at the moment however doing

Re: [CsMain] Communication Channels

2010-10-11 Thread Denis Washington
Am 12.10.2010 05:59, schrieb Eduardo Poyart: Furthermore, I think "Game Content Creation" should move into an extra "Miscellaneous" category, as this is not really about CrystalSpace itself. Maybe Christian meant something like "Engine Content Creation", the creation and exporti

Re: [CsMain] Communication Channels

2010-10-11 Thread Denis Washington
Am 11.10.2010 20:38, schrieb Christian Van Brussel: >> I think the organization of the forum topics should be revised to. >> There are way to many of them for the (comparatively) small user base >> that CrystalSpace currently has. Some of them could be merged, like >> "Project Discussion", "WIP P

[CsMain] Communication Channels

2010-10-11 Thread Denis Washington
Hi, Looking at the great variety of communication channels offered by the CrystalSpace project, I think it is a bit overkill. We have both forums and mailing lists, and both options have areas for users and developers. This is problematic for the following reasons: * Discussion gets needless

[CsMain] New website design and infrastructure

2010-10-11 Thread Denis Washington
ted to a native Drupal forum. 3. When in an usable state, replace the old webpage with a new one. I would be glad to experiment with this route if there are no major objections. Regards, Denis Washington -- Beautiful is writ

Re: [CsMain] Website Theme Mockup

2010-03-05 Thread Denis Washington
On 03/04/2010 02:31 PM, Mike Gist wrote: > Any more work on this? :) > > I quite like the original preview, the colour scheme is nice on the eyes. > I am still working on it, but my time is very limited at the moment. Maybe next week I'll be able to post a revised mockup. Regards, Denis ---

Re: [CsMain] Website Theme Mockup

2010-02-17 Thread Denis Washington
On Wednesday 17 February 2010 16:15:37 pm Christian Van Brussel wrote: > It is a really good job. The layout looks really great, it is simple and > nice, and looks very professional. I like the logos too, it's a nice > improvement of the previous one, and it is great to have unified CS, CEL > and C

Re: [CsMain] Website Theme Mockup

2010-02-17 Thread Denis Washington
On Wednesday 17 February 2010 17:24:27 pm res wrote: > On 17.02.2010 12:32, Denis Washington wrote: > > It was mentioned several times on this list that the website may need a > > fresher look, and therefore I played around with Inkscape the last few > > days to mock something

Re: [CsMain] A helping hand

2010-02-08 Thread Denis Washington
Me too. Regards, Denis On 02/08/2010 06:29 PM, Scott Johnson wrote: > I'd be willing to admin, as well. > > -Scott > --Original Message-- > From: Christian Van Brussel > To: CS developers and users list > ReplyTo: CS developers and users list > Subject: Re: [CsMain] A helping hand > Sent:

Re: [CsMain] A helping hand

2010-02-07 Thread Denis Washington
On 02/07/2010 04:16 PM, Mike Gist wrote: On 7 February 2010 14:40, res mailto:re...@gmx.ch>> wrote: > I also wanted to investigate that, especially SDK builds (it is very > unfortunate that there are no binary SDKs currently, especially on > Windows where building is not that easy).

Re: [CsMain] A helping hand

2010-02-07 Thread Denis Washington
On 02/07/2010 03:40 PM, res wrote: > On 06.02.2010 20:06, Denis Washington wrote: > >> I too think the webpage layout should be revised. It should be >> considered to change from the current Wiki to a CMS like Drupal; as the >> Trac developer page is already a wik

Re: [CsMain] A helping hand

2010-02-07 Thread Denis Washington
Am 07.02.2010 06:52, schrieb Jorrit Tyberghein: >> I too think the webpage layout should be revised. It should be >> considered to change from the current Wiki to a CMS like Drupal; as the >> Trac developer page is already a wiki, I don't see much of a reason of >> making the main page a wiki too.

Re: [CsMain] A helping hand

2010-02-06 Thread Denis Washington
Am 05.02.2010 15:33, schrieb res: > On 04.02.2010 18:36, Denis Washington wrote: > >> A few days ago, I played with the idea of starting a project to create a >> game authoring tool on top of CS+CEL (kind of like Unity3D, but >> open-source), and the Crystal Space p

Re: [CsMain] A helping hand

2010-02-06 Thread Denis Washington
Am 05.02.2010 14:43, schrieb Christian Van Brussel: > Hi Denis, > > Here are some personal thoughts on what can be improved within CS. I can > help a bit working on this, we can talk about that through this mailing > list or the crystal-develop one, through personal mails, through trac > tickets or

[CsMain] A helping hand

2010-02-04 Thread Denis Washington
roject alone it is in my very interest to make the way CS presents itself to the game developer community as awesome as possible! I would love to become part of your community. How about it? Best Regards, Denis Washington --