I have made a decision regarding a Content Management System for OXPCentral.net (I am going with Drupal 6), and last night I registered the domain name. Currently I am working my way through several thousand Drupal plugin modules to decide which ones will best provide the functionality we want. I'm also going through manuals and tutorials getting to grips with Drupal.
Over the next two weeks or so I will build a functional beta site on my home server, which I then intend to deploy to my hosted server for testing.
At that point I will need 10-20 people ready to assist with testing functionality/features. Both oxp-developers and players will be required, developers may also conduct tests as players.
If you wish to participate, PM me with a contact email address, (tests will be easier to coordinate via group-emailings) and I will arrange for test webmail accounts to be allocated to you for site registration purposes.
Last edited by Diziet Sma on Tue Apr 27, 2010 9:06 am, edited 1 time in total.
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The End of your Trivial Existence? Ha!
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your Species shall only be a Footnote
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Thank you.. I was hoping you'd come on board, after your offer in another post..
Welcome.
Most games have some sort of paddling-pool-and-water-wings beginning to ease you in: Oolite takes the rather more Darwinian approach of heaving you straight into the ocean, often with a brick or two in your pockets for luck. ~ Disembodied
Yes, it certainly is a step in that direction.. Somebody else will need to code the auto installer/updater, but this project is capable of being the backend such a program will need.
PM me with an email addy, and I'll add you to the mailing-list.
Most games have some sort of paddling-pool-and-water-wings beginning to ease you in: Oolite takes the rather more Darwinian approach of heaving you straight into the ocean, often with a brick or two in your pockets for luck. ~ Disembodied
The main aim at this stage is to make the site human-friendly.. If you read through the thread where I first announced the project, you'll see the ideas that have been put forward so far.
So far as making it computer accessible, I'm not sure what would be required. Am I to take it that your question implies you might be interested in creating auto-installer/updater software?
If so, PM me and we can start hashing out some ideas.
Most games have some sort of paddling-pool-and-water-wings beginning to ease you in: Oolite takes the rather more Darwinian approach of heaving you straight into the ocean, often with a brick or two in your pockets for luck. ~ Disembodied
I've started putting some stuff together for a local OXP manager (my proof of concept is working for me but way too rough to give out at this stage) with the eventual idea of also being able to pull down OXPs from the internet. Looks like you're doing the backend. Might be an idea to start talking about possible protocols and stuff. Not sure what you can do with Drupal in that area.
As for human vs machine readable - the ideal would be to have all the metadata for the OXPs accessible by both the local OXP Manager, as well as use it to generate the human-readable website. That way there's only one thing to maintain. We've had some discussion about possible file format and contents which I can forward.
Phantom Hoover is also doing work in this area.. it could be worthwhile checking with him as to what he's done.. you may be able to combine your efforts.. So far as I recall, he's working in Python..
If you PM me with an email address, I'll add you to the testing-team mailing list, and we can begin work on integrating the manager app with the OXP repository..
Most games have some sort of paddling-pool-and-water-wings beginning to ease you in: Oolite takes the rather more Darwinian approach of heaving you straight into the ocean, often with a brick or two in your pockets for luck. ~ Disembodied
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