The future of PBW - a call to arms

[tesco samoa]

Hi Mark.

This is a great idea.


And one i have been thinking about for a while now.

The current situation stands as follows.

SEIV PBW Server is on its Last legs.

The admin team is working to keep it going.

The current system will also be taking a little trip to Canada quite soon.

The current system needs to be fixed up to a point that it can limp along or be returned to a fully functioning server.


For the future.

I do feel that the PBW system needs a complete refresh.

I would like to see it become modular. And be able to handle SEIV, and then when it comes out SEV.

I do not mind investing my time as a project manager on building this new system up and fully documenting it so those who take over after this generation will know what to do.

Unfortantly this topic has not been discussed in detail with the PBW admins or the community.

Well now is a good time to start.


I suggest that we leave this thread as an openning where people can post if their interested and what experience they have. And most importantly what time they can invest to work on this.


Then we will set up a pbw development forum to work from and create a new sticky on the top of the seiv forum with links to pbw status and pbw development.

this is my suggestion.

[Ragnarok-X]

eventually i would like to give a few dollars to help out, i would really miss pbw.

[Ruatha]

Make it so that I can change my Companion program to access it through HTTP as it now can through the Text mode at the current PBW server.

(Hopefully a rough beta without documentation will be released tomorrow)

[tesco samoa]

Perhaps another thread for suggestions and such when the project has started.

we will keep this one for people to ask if they can help out.

[AMF]

RE:

Originally posted by tesco samoa:
Then we will set up a pbw development forum to work from and create a new sticky on the top of the seiv forum with links to pbw status and pbw development.

this is my suggestion.

I think this Last point is especially important. In a former life I used to do this sort of thing and bughunts, progress reports, questions, et al were greatly helped by daily collaboration amongst the programmers. I think there are even websites/tools out there specifically for this sort of thing (IIRC "scarab" is one). I would suggest a "development" forum, a "suggestions" forum, and a "current PBW status" forum (which we already have). Good luck, and I wish I could help.

thanks,
Alarik

[Grauzone]

Originally posted by tesco samoa:
...
I suggest that we leave this thread as an openning where people can post if their interested and what experience they have. And most importantly what time they can invest to work on this.

Then we will set up a pbw development forum to work from and create a new sticky on the top of the seiv forum with links to pbw status and pbw development.

this is my suggestion.

Interests:
I'm interested in development of a new Version of PBW or improvement the old Version.

Time:
No problems to ivest regulary ca. 10hr/week in this project. At minimum 6hr a day Online except weekend (wife and childreen).

Skills:
software design and programming is no problem. Can learn programming Languages fast if necessary. I'm not an artist => design is not realy my thing.

[Grauzone]

Originally posted by alarikf:
... I would suggest a "development" forum, a "suggestions" forum, and a "current PBW status" forum (which we already have). ...

as soon as possible. please make them sticky.

important: separating of "suggestions" and "development".