Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Hello

2010-09-30 Thread jeremy rosen
I am not sure what you mean by "campaign of wesnoth" but since you are a CS major I assume you want to join the wesnoth project as a coder... here is a couple of advice on how to join us 1) compile wesnoth yourself, it will familiarize you with SVN, the wiki etc... 2) join us on the #wesnoth-dev

[Wesnoth-dev] Hello

2010-09-30 Thread Patrick A. O'Hare
Hello, My name is Patrick O'Hare, I am a Sophomore at Longwood University. I am a Computer Science major, and for my Software Engineering class our teacher wants us to contribute to an Open source project. I am a big fan of Wesnoth and would like to contribute to the project. I was wondering

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Hello

2008-05-03 Thread Martin Renold
On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 05:36:46PM -0500, Nicolas Grunbaum wrote: > On this note, I am curious as to what profiling has been done on the > project. I've done quite some profiling on the (old) 1.2 release, so the most obvious bottlenecks should be gone. But the code has changed a lot since, and I

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Hello

2008-05-02 Thread dave
Quoting Nicolas Grunbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On this note, I am curious as to what profiling has been done on the > project. There's been some level of profiling, and optimizations of different factors to varying degrees. Historically, performance has not been a top priority -- rather re

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Hello

2008-05-02 Thread dave
Quoting Mark de Wever <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 05:37:04PM -0400, Nicolas Barriga wrote: >> On Friday 02 May 2008 17:19:47 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi Nicolas, > >> Has anybody considered the GP2X? (http://wiki.gp2x.org/wiki/Main_Page) >> Or is it not widespread enough to

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Hello

2008-05-02 Thread Nicolas Grunbaum
On May 2, 2008, at 4:19 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Welcome Nicolas, > > Firstly I'd like to say that I think Eric's advice is excellent. > > Becoming a contributor to an already running, in motion open source > project is actually a lot of work, and has a high failure rate, even > for an expe

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Hello

2008-05-02 Thread Nils Kneuper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nicolas Barriga schrieb: | On Friday 02 May 2008 17:19:47 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |> [...] |> If you've got experience on embedded devices, we'd love for someone to |> investigate the feasibility of porting Wesnoth to the iPhone/iPod |> Touch. But tha

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Hello

2008-05-02 Thread Mark de Wever
On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 05:37:04PM -0400, Nicolas Barriga wrote: > On Friday 02 May 2008 17:19:47 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Nicolas, > Has anybody considered the GP2X? (http://wiki.gp2x.org/wiki/Main_Page) > Or is it not widespread enough to be worth it? Or not powerfull enough? grzywacz alrea

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Hello

2008-05-02 Thread Nicolas Barriga
On Friday 02 May 2008 17:19:47 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [...] > If you've got experience on embedded devices, we'd love for someone to > investigate the feasibility of porting Wesnoth to the iPhone/iPod > Touch. But that could probably wait until you're more familiar with > the code. Has anybody

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Hello

2008-05-02 Thread dave
Welcome Nicolas, Firstly I'd like to say that I think Eric's advice is excellent. Becoming a contributor to an already running, in motion open source project is actually a lot of work, and has a high failure rate, even for an experienced programmer. It takes a decent amount of time and effo

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Hello

2008-05-02 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Nicolas Grunbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I was hoping that > if I described my areas of knowledge that people could recommend > something I could get my feet wet with, while not stepping on toes or > doing unnecessary work. > I am professionally

[Wesnoth-dev] Hello

2008-05-02 Thread Nicolas Grunbaum
Hello all, I want to start by saying that I enjoy playing Wesnoth in my free time and that I would like to help with the coding effort. I have looked through the bug database, poked around in the code, and browsed the wiki, but I am not really sure where to start. I was hoping that if I