I noticed in the thread: We NEED more developers!, that some people who are interested of development tend to just drop some credentials and an email. So I thought that "well hey, I can just fiddle together some short few lines while the dinner gets ready and.. " that can be sent real quick and easy. So, here is my quick draft of what this email could look like. Please feel free to comment about anything and please do make suggestions on any format/language/subject/threads I might have forgotten!
Never mind the colours.Hi and welcome!
Nice of you to being interested in helping out with the development!
Nexuiz is a 'real' open source game and its not needed to ask for what to do, but rather dig into the code, get an overview of things, start meddling and have fun!
If you want to be a dev go for it! If you have the skills or want to learn, the more the better, people will gladly help out with problems or any questions!
You can just visit us on _irc_, get a checkout from svn and maybe ask for specific points to work on. Or take a look/ask questions at the forum or the feature/bug tracker on nexuiz.com/bugs. Its easier and better this way, than the time consuming emailing, back and forth.
irc://irc.anynet.org/alientrap
Please submit as patches with http://pastebin.ca and use http://pics.nexuizninjaz.com for nexuiz related pictures!
Use http://box.net as file host!
Get the svn "quick and dirty"!
viewtopic.php?t=3061 (Svn build script, ubuntu)
viewtopic.php?t=3887 (Svn build script, windows)
http://svn.icculus.org/twilight/trunk/darkplaces/ (Nexuiz engine Darkplaces - SVN )
Here is a how to getting started with programming (QuakeC) for Nexuiz: http://dev.alientrap.org/ezfaq/show/nexuiz?faq_id=25
The development tracker is located here: http://dev.alientrap.org/projects/show/nexuiz
The Grand HOWTO thread (Graphics, Models, Mapping): http://forums.alientrap.local/viewtopic.php?t=4435
For example here you will find some people working on diffrent things and requested features on the forum that different people would like to see:
http://nexuiz.com/bugs (general bug tracker.. feature tracker is one further click)
http://forums.alientrap.local/viewtopic.php?t=4368 (e.g. using DTLS from OpenSSL/password option for the servers, basic patch already existing needs refinement and menu integration)
http://forums.alientrap.local/viewforum.php?f=3 (Support forum, just look for people having problems and trying to help..)
Here are some example threads of some people doing great work!
viewtopic.php?t=65 (Screenshots of what you're doing - thread)
viewtopic.php?t=3669 (Ai's modeling)
viewtopic.php?t=4159 (blkrbt's work on music thread)
viewtopic.php?t=3730 (Tenshihan's work on sounds)
