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Default Open-Source , how to handle? - 15-04-2004

Read the news, and tell me your ideas...

currently i have in mind:
- i release the source code some day
- i have a thread on this forum what things need to be worked on , this list of 'todo's' will be updated due testing/information/requests by users.
- people download the source and can choose:
-- work on it alone, make an own version (create own website, distribute it, credit me for using it, aka like the POD bot off-spring)
-- help developing RealBot itself (which i encourage!), work on the 'todo list' as mentioned above.

Code changes:
- can either be published on the forum. I will create a seperated forum section for this. As an example a form thread title could be like:

FIX: Bot's shooting hostages

Then in the forum thread you will have it like:

On line y of file z, change the following code
Code:
some code
into:

Code:
some other code
Etc.

I imagine a team should be assigned in order to keep the 'real source' updated to get releases done. People could either change their version by adapting the changes/fixes/adds by applying them from the forum. Or they wait and an (weekly?) update will be used.

Look people, i am serious about this. I want RealBot to be 'free' , i also want it to develop it further. I will not stop developing RealBot, but i will also not release the source when there is nothing organized so i don't just release it for the sake of it. I want to release the source with a solid purpose.


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