hi Eugene et al.,<div><br>sorry for HTML e-mail, but that's on purpose due to attached screenshots.</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 1:56 AM, Eugene Sandulenko <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sev@scummvm.org">sev@scummvm.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">The usual procedure is following:</div>
- The engine author writes a news item and publishes it with blessing<br>
of the co-leads on our main website. Usually the item is funny and<br>
has references to the original game. You may find good examples in<br>
our news archive<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>what about the following?</div><div><br></div><div>ScummVM opens this year's Christmas season one month earlier!</div><div><br></div><div>We would like to present a little gift to the smallest ones and to the ones that don't feel that old yet. We have added support for Dragon History, a free game about a little dragon who has done some misdeeds and now tries to make them up and on top of that find his strayed father.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If you wanna play, download the nightly build of ScummVM and the original game files from <a href="http://www.ucw.cz/draci-historie/index-en.html">http://www.ucw.cz/draci-historie/index-en.html</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><img src="http://www.ucw.cz/draci-historie/img/screen-family.png" alt="screenshot"> <img src="http://www.ucw.cz/draci-historie/img/screen-library.png" alt="screenshot"></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
- The news items is also crossposted on our forums as an announcement<br></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
- The game is added to the compatibility list<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I cannot modify the WWW page. could someone do so, please? <a href="http://www.scummvm.org/compatibility/">http://www.scummvm.org/compatibility/</a></div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
- We add new category to bugreports<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I have added a new Group (now Category) Dragon History</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
- We start accepting the bugreports on the game<br>
<br>
Thus we are effectively engage all of our user community to the testing.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>agreed</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">> I don't know whether I should write somewhere the instructions for<br>
> playing the game and, if yes, where to.<br>
</div>Definitely. There are several places:<br>
- Our README (it is a must)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>done</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
- Our documentation on Wiki (doc team can pick it form REAME but that<br>
could take some time)<br>
- Game-specific page on the Wiki (optional)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>both done</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">> does anybody have an idea when will the next release of ScummVM<br>
> happen? are we going to ship Dragon History out at 1.1 or is 1.0.1<br>
> good enough? I would prefer shipping it ASAP.<br>
</div>The game support is shipped only after testing period.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>ACK</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Currently we are at 6 months release cycle, that means that 1.1.0 will<br>
be around February/March. There is a probability that 1.0.1 will be<br>
released, but that one will be based on branch-1-0-0 which is obviously<br>
in a feature freeze.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>agreed</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Also by time of the release I propose to move the game page and the<br>
data files to <a href="http://scummvm.org" target="_blank">scummvm.org</a> and <a href="http://sf.net" target="_blank">sf.net</a> respectively.<br>
<font color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote><div>I have nothing against that. I would like to keep the old page in place, but we can create a copy wherever appropriate and link it from the ScummVM page.</div><div><br>
</div><div>so I'm completely done except for waiting for addition of the game to the compatibility list and for posting the NEWS item. feel free to alter the latter or just clean up the English language.</div><div><br>
</div><div>best,</div></div>-- <br>Robert Špalek <<a href="mailto:rspalek@gmail.com">rspalek@gmail.com</a>><br>
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