Our installation situation is a disaster - the saga of Co8 4.0.0

Re: Our installation situation is a disaster

.upon rethinking..
the best way from a use stand point would be an html doc or text doc.. breaking down the total changes by catagory.." char class changes fixes..." (sub catagory monk.., fighter, cleric etc)
spell fixes,adventuring fixes.. (homlet,,node ...etc etc...)

new content..

the Big advantage is If i want to know how the cleric has been changed /fixed I just need to look at that section for a total overview..
or if im adventuring in homlett and want to know what was broken fixed changed.. I only have to look there to get all the corrections fixes.. mods and added adventures. and items....if any .. that have been made
it is a truly heculean task though..
might even be good for a lion skin coat..

 

Re: Our installation situation is a disaster

my 2 ¢ ... I think whoever is doing the new documentation [in this case Blue] should have the final say on what and how the documentation will be done. It's easy for someone who is not working on the documentation to say I want it done this way and my opinion is what counts. Except, maybe, in the singular, specific case where Livonya, herself, would return to this site and request it a specific way for her to review what's been done for her to work on and release her version 2 of her mod.

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* strictly IMO - I've worked on many corporate global scale MIS projects. It would be a good idea to follow the documentation style of the previous official Co8 releases, unless there is a new method that is a real improvement over the existing method and is accepted by the Co8 staff. If it's changed and information is not complete or wrong (or whatever), it's the Co8 staff that will catch the blame in future times.
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Maybe I'm wrong, but that's just my opinion.

 

Re: Our installation situation is a disaster

Once again, thanks for the support and the vote of confidence Krunch, but I really don't think the final say should be mine. After all, only a tiny piece of this release is something I have contributed. Almost all of it was done by others, and they should have the final say in how their work is documented. And since the Co8 name is going on this, everyone at Co8 should have a say. I am just serving as ghost writer, or copy editor. I do like the sticking with the format of the previous release notes idea, though imnsho they could have benefited from a little better organizing.

My preference is, even though it means a lot more work for me( I always wanted a lion skin coat), is a single doc organized much in the way bradrinwi described, with annotations for mod/modder/release for each each fix/change/addition. I don't do html just yet, so if it's html you want someone else will have to do it, though I'll still do the organizing if you want. I can do a nice word or plain text document.

Oh, and btw, I insist on giving Sol Invictus a credit for all his hard work and dedication in providing this forum for us.

 

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Blue personally i think Herc had it easy..all he had to do was slay the neiman lion for his..

your task is a bit more daunting..

but have at it and defiently a credit for Sol Invictus.. with out whom thered be no fourm for us to rave and plot and create in.

as someone with a slightly moldy degree in linguistics im happy to play editor /proof reader.. or help in any other capcity..
just Pm me

 

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He he ... is that a degree in creative orthography?

 

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just because i choose not to excersize some skills in my daily correspondence and my typing skills are not the most highly praise worthy. doesn't mean i lack the knowledge and skills

actually linguistic evolution is the concentration
(how word sounds devolve over time and cultural influence)

 

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unfortunatly its not the product of a fevered imagination..
many yrs ago i was on track to become an ivory tower dweller

and submitted a thesis titled the evolutio of the p and q celtic language groups as infulenced by roman invasions through the norman conquest.


luckyl i got better quickly and realized computer programming.. was a lot more profitable not to mention liberal (this was the mid/late.. 80's plenty of need for comp geeks and reagen then a bush in office..)


and yes i speak proper english i still have to explain to my coworkers what the U is doing in colour ..etc..

 

Re: Our installation situation is a disaster

Gaear great idea arena of heros would be great for 4.0 but as you say there would have to be more than 2 encounters in it..
hint hint