Down for the count

Autobuilder & Tracker offline

After 10 years of service, the PC running Doomsday’s autobuilder VMs has died. Probable culprit looks like the PSU, so I’ll replace it with a new one and (fingers crossed) the machine can still be resuscitated to full working condition. In the meantime, there will be no new unstable builds. Fortunately the AppVeyor and Travis CI builders should keep the boat afloat until the autobuilder is up and running again.

Another casualty of this hardware failure is the bug/feature tracker that was running on the same PC. The tracker will likewise be offline for now.

Focus navigation

Recently I’ve been working a lot on UI focus navigation. The ultimate goal is to allow using Doomsday without ever touching the mouse, i.e., with only the keyboard or a gamepad. Continue reading Down for the count

Consolidation

You may recall that last year, I decided to move my developer blog posts from the forums onto a separate blog. A number of other Doomsday web resources have also been sprouting outside dengine.net (like the bug tracker and commit tag index). When it came time to renew hosting of the website, I came to realize that it was time to sort out this situation and commit to the idea of a consolidated web presence for Doomsday — this was the motivation for moving to a domain of our own in the first place.

Continue reading Consolidation