Back in October 2008, Robert the Rebuilder started a poll on the GoW forum with this post:
Will this be a helpful way of gathering information about the skills and time individuals can offer to open-source Uru?Robert The Rebuilder wrote:Suppose that Cyan was willing to take on unpaid intern developers for a MORE development team. (Put aside your skepticism for the moment, please.) Would you be willing to help get MORE started? More importantly, would you have the time to do this over the next 6 months or so?
If you are available, please reply with the following information:
- Average number of hours per week that you can devote to MORE development
- Whether you are a student, employed (part/full time), or both
- Number of months/years experience in the following areas:
- General programming (C++/Python)
- Plasma engine
- Database management
- Bug tracking software
- "e-Commerce"/online payment systems
- Server software engineer
- Networking or multiplayer gaming systems
- System administrator
- Quality assurance testing
Note that such a team could theoretically work on bug fixes after MORE goes online, e.g. fixing the maintainer wall, getting heek to be reliable, restore marker quest high scores, etc.
BIG DISCLAIMER: Cyan has said nothing about doing this project; this is all speculative. The poll is merely to gauge the level of interest in the fan developer community.
BIG DISCLAIMER 2: This project forum is guild neutral, and welcomes contributions from everyone. No guild membership is required or assumed -- just the willingness to work together and with respect for each other's skills and knowledge.