Category:Development

Overview

BZFlag is developed as an open source distributed development process by a number of developers all over the world.

Organization

The development community has a loose organizational structure but there are a few groups of developers that are responsible for various aspects of development.

Maintainer

Tim Riker (TimRiker) is the copyright holder and intellectual property manager for the project. He is responsible for the overall direction of the project and manages it's various legal operations.

Release Managers

Scott Wichser (Blast007) and Jeffery Myers (JeffM) are the release managers. They are responsible for the day to day development and planing of the various releases of BZFlag. They maintain the BZFlag Source, SVN, and ensure that development of features in a release are completed on time.

Service Managers

Scott Wichser (Blast007) and Joe Vano (JoeVano) manage the public services that BZFlag clients and servers use such as the List Server and Global Registration System.

Forum Administrators

A number of people maintain the BZFlag Forums including;

• L4m3r
• DTRemenak
• Learner
• Blast007
• TimRiker
• Bryjen
• joevano
• Bullet Catcher
• Constitution

Communications

Development communications mostly happens in the BZFlag IRC channel. There are development mailing lists on the sourceforge site but they are rarely used. Many developers are often on the IRC channel and are more then willing to discuss things relating to bzflag development.

Coding Policy

BZFlag has a documented coding policy that is in the DEVINFO file that is included with every source code release.

Resources

Helping Out