Volity 2005 (again)

On Feb 1, 2005, at 2:45 PM, Jason McIntosh wrote:

> I expect to finish the next Frivolity release this weekend (on 
> schedule), after which I'll focus on helping the Javolin 0.1 release 
> happen.

Well, so much for _that_. My dayjob continued to kick my ass through 
mid-March, and then I got distracted by other things. While the other 
things were, in fact, directly related to the Volity project, they 
managed to keep me away from active technical development or management 
anyway.

Sorry to be coy about it; it's only plans and schemes for now, and I 
don't want to say anything about it on a public (and Web-archived) 
mailing list yet. If you're really curious, feel free to ask me about 
it off-list.

I can say this much: as part of our strange and sinister secret plans, 
Andy and I are going to push to complete the system this summer, enough 
so that a public beta, open to both game players and game developers, 
will exist by the end of this coming August. I'll be reworking the 
(once more completely out of date) task list appropriately, putting 
most of the demand on the two of us.

(To further the chances of our actually meeting this goal, Andy and I 
are rearranging things to give us more time to work on the project. I 
for one don't expect to put it down again.)

In the meantime: I have checked some big changes to Frivolity into CVS, 
implementing all the seat and readiness functionality discussed at the 
beginning of this year (and documented in the Wiki), and making these 
services the current ones running on volity.net. I have also started to 
monkey around in the Javolin code, adding some small changes that 
account for the new protocol bits. (Have also added in a new major bug, 
mostly because I don't know what the hell I'm doing in Java. Will be in 
touch with the main Javolin developers shortly about that one.)

No release of either yet; I want to nail down a couple small pieces of 
protcol before I'm happy with Frivolity, and I think I actually want to 
see Javolin done "right" before declaring even a 0.1 version, since I 
don't think it will take that much more work.

So that's where things stand; mostly I just wanted to let you know that 
Volity and I are both still alive. More specific discussion from me 
soon.

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   Jason McIntosh             jmac <at> jmac.org
Somerville, MA, USA       http://www.jmac.org

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