Focus adjustments

I took a good look at the project roadmap in the Tracker and decided it was time to do some spring cleaning.

I’ve now updated the plan for the 2.x releases so that each version has a specific focus. For instance, the 2.0 release will focus on the Home UI and basic package management, and the 2.1 release will focus on multiplayer improvements.

While the roadmap is just a plan and plans may always change, defining a clear focus area for each version will help in pushing things forward. Not doing this would mean that each release has the risk of ballooning feature creep and features would likely not be fully baked.

Another topical issue to note is that due to the autobuilder upgrade, the stable 1.15 builds have been suspended until the stable build environment is updated to work with the new builder setup. However, I’m placing my focus on finishing features for the 2.0 stable release, so I don’t expect many fixes for 1.15 in the near future.

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