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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 its 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 Code, SVN repository, 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

SVN repository stored on sourceforge.

BZFlag Source Information on the source code for the game.

BZFS API Information on the API for plug-in development.

SourceForge Patch Tracker where code changes from new developers are submitted.

SourceForge Bug Tracker where users report bugs or problems in the game.

SourceForge Feature Requests where users request new features ( pending approval).

Helping Out

BZFlag can always use new developers. Users that wish to become more involved in the development process are encouraged to join the IRC channel and talk to the developers and players there.

The next step is to submit patches to the patch tracker so the new developer can get the hang of how the codebase works and so that project management can evaluate the coding ability/style of the new developer.

If a new developer fits into the project well and is productive they will often be given commit access to the SVN system so they may make changes directly to the code.

Versions

The current shipping version is based on the 2.0.x branch branches/release_maint/v2_0 in svn

The current development version is 2.3 to be released as 2.4.0.0 it is located in trunk/bzflag in svn.

Subcategories

This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.