Important announcement regarding my involvement with ZDoom

[Enjay]

The SVN repositories are here:

http://mancubus.net/svn/

Pre-built versions of the Zdoom and GZdoom binaries can be found here:

http://svn.drdteam.org/

[Enjay]

I was just musing to myself instead of going to bed like I should be doing, and this quote popped gazelle-like into my head. Possibly a bit crass, but it's kind of appropriate:

For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.

Of course, how much attention anyone can pay to that guy, I don't know. I mean, the man is English and has spent nearly all his life in England - yet he speaks with an American accent. What's up with that?

[bagheadspidey]

Graf, question: Which changelog will you be updating? This one or this one?

[Ceeb]

Of course, how much attention anyone can pay to that guy, I don't know. I mean, the man is English and has spent nearly all his life in England - yet he speaks with an American accent. What's up with that?

Do you think he ever types in filthy things when he's alone just for fun?

[MDenham]

I mean, [Stephen Hawking] is English and has spent nearly all his life in England - yet he speaks with an American accent. What's up with that?

Funny, I always thought his accent was more of a mechanical one.

[bagheadspidey]

That was the joke.

[HotWax]

One question: where can I find a line by line detail of additions added to the GZDoom SVN? I've been following The ZDoom SVN for a while and would like to ensure I'm staying up to date on the latest tricks in case I spot something someone needs or should be standardized that is currently hackish.

Here's another good place to look:

http://zdoom.org/w/index.php?title=Spec ... &limit=500

Though of course this will just tell you which pages use the tag. To find out what's different you'll have to open each article.

[zwouth]

I guess it's official then, Graf's name is no longer purple.

[HotWax]

I guess it's official then, Graf's name is no longer purple.

He's still listed in the developer's group though...

[Slasher]

So first we lose a really good developer... then we lose a really good moderator...

These are sad times for the ZDoom community.

[skadoomer]

I guess it's official then, Graf's name is no longer purple.

That just means he doesn't have moderator privileges anymore. He can still see and participate in developer only secret threads (if any exist).

These are sad times for the ZDoom community.

Its not like their dead, and its not like we'll ever see then post again, they've just voluntarily forfeited their positions of responsibility to concentrate on what matters. I say rejoice because new things are on the way.

[Zippy]

These are sad times for the ZDoom community.

Its not like their dead, and its not like we'll ever see then post again, they've just voluntarily forfeited their positions of responsibility to concentrate on what matters. I say rejoice because new things are on the way.

I'm inclined to mostly agree with Skadoomer here. This is all something I would not file under "Crisis of Epic Proportions". Important change of the status quo? Sure. Not the ideal solution? Sure, there's a good argument for that. Graf vengefully remote activating a hidden routine implanted in the ZDoom source to wipe all copies of the executable and source code off the face of the Earth? Nah.

Graf has always had the power and the right to step away. Randy, likewise, has made no transgressions because he has always had a right to maintain his own project. At this stage development will still to continue. Differently, but it will go on. Let's see what changes.

[Project Shadowcat]

Its not like their dead, and its not like we'll ever see then post again, they've just voluntarily forfeited their positions of responsibility to concentrate on what matters. I say rejoice because new things are on the way.

ZDoom is dead. Long live ZDoom.

[Slasher]

Oh I'm quite curious about the potential progress. I'm sure that will be very rewarding. I just feel it's unfortunate that the split itself has to take place. Certain features will be implemented in one port but not the other... That kind of thing.

Actually, my earlier post in this thread sums up my concerns about this issue.

My other point was that we are "losing" two very important forum members in such a short amount of time.

[Spleen]

ZDoom is dead. Long live ZDoom.

That makes no sense