After a long hiatus on the project I've restarted developing Sandscape, and will also work on Cardscape. Therefor, if there are any developers out there that don't mind working with PHP and under some already made choices, please fell free to poke around to see what needs to be done and what get to know the project. This is a post requesting help, even if no one answers it seems important to me to keep those that are interested in the loop of what is going on and if by change some nice soul happens to read this, this project needs your help
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I've updated part of the sourceforce project, there are some tools I'm still working on, but most issues were moved to the new sourceforge platform and Trac will not be updated. Git is still our source code control system but I will not move it to GitHub, I'll continue using the tools sourceforge offers.
What has been done:
- Updated tools, libraries and project structure;
- Revised part of the code to include some new libraries and to account for some structure changes, and in the process broke the code completely;
- Cleaned the repo to make it easier to keep track of existing files and documentations;
- Started updating code to reflect changes to how development is processed;
What is next:
- Revise all DB structure, updated PHP code to account for Twitter Bootstrap and deactivate (comment out) all existing features;
- Restart implementing (or uncommenting and cleaning) features making sure we don't end up with too many incomplete features (happened last time);
- Create demo system and update often (I made several attempts at getting a demo running but never updated it properly, don't want to repeat that, don't care if demo breaks as long as it is in sync with latest code)
What I need help with:
- Developing PHP and JS code, preferably from someone with experience in HTML5 applications (not websites);
What is not up for discussiong:
- Websockets, there were a lot of discussion about using them but no one really provided with a demo that had the same features, also there were no real studies about how they would benefit the project. Given my experience with them (Yes I have used them before), the tech is not really usable at the moment.
- Dropping PHP, Yii framework or any of the techs we use now. There is too much envolved in the project, I believe the techs are worth using and will do what we need, don't want to keep questioning the choices already made, there will be time for that.
- Adding new features besides what is already listed in the mess that are the tickets, everything that was discussed so far will probably end up in Sandscape but the current idea is to get something worth using out to the public.
Why so blunt?
- No time for more, maybe too much coffee from today's work, don't really know. If you can ready this post and see some humor on it (not really sure where, but heck it may be there) then please do so, if you feel I'm being to dry, sorry about that.
Why only now, where have I been?
- Because only now I had the will and time to restart the project, I've moved to another city (away from family, friends and all that was known to me), I've got a fulltime job now instead of working freelance has I did (developing, managing, doing stuff
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I'll work at least 3 hours a week on the project, small but steady.
And now?
- This was more of a "heads up" than anything else, there is little useful info on the topic but I want to make more frequent reports and updates to the project status, as I would like very much to have the project moving, it as always been a one-man project and always a bit separated from the main goal of WTactics but I want to make it useful.
Regards,
Knitter