One week ago GCI ended!

Why am I announcing it one week later? We needed rest!
For two months we've been literally swarmed by GCI students who needed to be mentored and helped, but we didn't expect such a successful invasion of new contributors!

So now that we gained our strenght back, let's sit down and think about our experience.

We proposed 150 different tasks, mentored 110 and completed successfully 65! Not too bad, I must add! Some of the tasks regarded documentation or wiki, but a relevant portion of them consisted of writing some actual code! You are going to see a lot of neat interface improvements in .18 as well as two new languages.

In the following days we will go through the submitted work and double check we didn't forget anything! In the meantime we prepared a new wiki page that contains all the tasks left, useful for some future projects or for beginners' contributions.

So in the end was it worth it? I've got different feedbacks from the mentors: some said it was too tiresome and didn't add much, others said that it was nice to help the kids and that there is the possibility of having long time contributors...

In the end, even though it required a lot of effort, we've taught students what is opensource and how to work in a real world team.
And that's what GCI is all about!

A BIG THANK YOU FROM ALL THE HEDGEWARS TEAM TO EVERY PARTICIPATING STUDENT

AND A WARM HUG FROM THE GCI ADMINS TO ALL THE MENTORS THAT MADE THIS POSSIBLE!!

Koda

SOPA RULES!

In case it wasn't clear, Hedgewars participated in the anti-SOPA strike, that took place all over the Internet on January Wed. 18th (a date to remember).

We are obviously against such anticompetitive and censoring legislations, but we yesterday we presented what could happen in a SOPA'd world by replacing all the homepage content with SOPA RULES messages.

If you want to understand more and know what you can do against it, please visit http://americancensorship.org/ or http://www.mozilla.org/sopa/ or http://vimeo.com/31100268 or http://sopastrike.com/

...we just destroyed the Googlecode repository!

This should be no problem for normal users and for contributors; however developers with commit access are *highly* invited to either clone again the main repo or, before doing any operation on their sources, run

hg pull
hg strip da1e7fe7cff7

HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM THE HEDGEWARS DEVTEAM

There will be a power shutdown in the building where our servers are hosted on December 28th. I apologize to everyone who is planning to enjoy lots of Hedgewars over the holidays.

We are planning to have a replacement server at m8y.org due to this extended downtime. The DNS for hedgewars.org will be changed for the day, but you can punch in m8y.org for the server if it isn't connecting.

EDIT: Services have been restored. Please let us know if you see anything weird.

Dear fellow developers and players, my beloved friends,


I am sorry, but I have to announce that I will retire from Hedgewars as developer, as admin, as player and as active community member by the end of this week.

Although this is a decision that I had to make myself (it wasn't easy believe me... and it took me many months), I had no choice to decide different.

Since, sadly, this seems to be the only right and responsible choice for the situation I'm currently in.


So yes, I'm leaving... with a heavy heart, hoping that our paths may cross again sooner or later.

I want you to know that the years with you guys have been wonderful.
Years in which I met many nice and impressive people.
Years which brought me much joy and comfort.
Years which warmed my heart and broadened my horizons.

Also ... I owe you guys way more than I could express and I'm ashamed that I have to turn away from you like this, leaving so many unfinished things behind.


Maybe the day will come when I'll be able to return ... but unfortunately that day won't be any soon.


Best wishes to you all,
I will miss you.

Yours truly,
sheepluva

"Sometimes, to do what's right, we have to be steady and give up the thing we want the most. Even our dreams." --Peter Parker (Spider-man 2)