Services Proposal

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This is a proposal for a revamped BZFlag services system (list server, BZFlag forum, and website) by AAA. Post comments on the Discussion page

Features

Minimum Requirements

The BZFlag global service requires the following minimum features (and example):

• Redundancy or distributed system for minimal failure (geographical distribution)
• Internal authentication system common to all services
• Ability to list servers
  • Player tracking (Who is where)
  • Players on the server
  • Team sizes (max and current)
  • Custom server status info (Game timer, game status)
  • Restricting server visibility by global group (advertise)
  • Get org names from the group manager for client sorting
  • Server version
• Forum with common authentication
• Wiki with common authentication
• Token store with common authentication, for authenticating users to 3rd parties
• Backwards compatibility in some way with 1.10.x and 2.0.x

Proposed features

• Encrypted logins (by the BZFlag client and/or weblogin)
• Registration in the client
• Server Push for stats with replication of current data to an API query page for external sites
• Anon usage profile data storage from clients for devs.
• Knowing if the server requests global auth or not (reg bit to tell people to reg)
• Global group management

Considerations

• Lightweight where possible

Other services

• Image/texture uploading and hosting