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I'd like the
http://thrivegame.wikidot.com/team-members
page to be separated into active and inactive sections.

So that first there would be all the teams listed with their active members and then in another section all the teams would be listed with their inactive members.

http://thrivegame.wikidot.com/bacteria

Complete the above wiki page on bacteria with the current concept, and include links to the page on the main Microbe Stage page. Also nest it as a child page of Microbe Stage.

Checklist for Thrive release (these should roughly happen in order):

• 9 days before release: check open PRs to see if any is close enough to done so that they can be pushed to be finished
• Ask on discord if people are up for a release podcast
• Mention on discord that feature freeze has started
• 7 days before release: merge open PRs from weblate (first push all pending changes from weblate)
• Run scripts/update_translation_progress.rb
• Make a release candidate and post on the community forums and discord (use DevCenter file hosting for the downloads)
• Upload RC also to beta channel on game stores
• Post announcement on Weblate when deadline for translations is (2 days before the release at the end of the day)
• Enable the auto comment on PRs about feature freeze
• Start drafting the release on Github
• Post the patch notes draft on discord so that devblog can start
• Get someone (or our usual trailer guy) to start working on a trailer
• Make a livestream event on Youtube if there are probably enough people for it. Optional: make pre-stream questions for general audience
• Make high priority questions thread for the VIP patrons
• 1 day before release: merge last small fix PRs
• Merge last translations PR (first push all pending changes from weblate)
• Make sure trailer is ready to go
• Run scripts/update_translation_progress.rb
• Update credits with scripts/retrieve_credits.rb
• On the day of release: compile and upload builds to Github release draft
• Push the release version to the stable channel for game stores
• Publish the release on Github
• Update the launcher repo to have the new version listed in the launcher
• Publish the trailer on our Youtube channel
• Publish the devblog
• Link the release on Github to the devblog and link the trailer in the devblog
• After the release: turn the auto comment to Github off
• Post general feedback thread on the community forums
• Have the release livestream

Basically, a rewrite of the GDD to breakdown the content into more pages and link them up to pages like Getting Started. I should be able to finish this up within a week.

On the Getting Started wiki page: http://thrivegame.wikidot.com/new-member-guidance

There are links to pages for each team. Each team page has a section called "Current Work", which mostly have links to Github issues for that team (for example the sound team has a link to the issues labelled with Sound).

We need to make sure that we copy all of our plans for tasks and features into issues on Github, especially for this upcoming release, so that a new person who joins and is reading the wiki page for their team and follows the link to see what to work on doesn't get an empty list.

Should we add tags to our repositories like some popular repositories do? Like this one: https://github.com/nlohmann/json

The new wiki is starting to slowly shape up. The links on the main website should be updated to point to the new wiki: https://wiki.revolutionarygamesstudio.com Also the old wiki main page should have a link to the new wiki.
It could also be nice to include the wiki link in the dev and community forum headers so more people would find it.

old wiki: http://thrivegame.wikidot.com/
new wiki: https://wiki.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/wiki/Main_Page
I set the new wiki license to be the same so the text can be just copy pasted.

in addition to having the patreon link we should also link our own donations page at https://revolutionarygamesstudio.com/donate/

When non logged in on the community forums you don't see the reactions to posts.

Right now it only has sound and programming team lead bios (and even my bio is pretty short).

As mentioned in this thread: http://forum.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/release-0-4-0-thread/378

We've got a lot of plans for this next update. It's vital for us to grow our team so that we can better handle working on more features, increase the pace of development, and overall make the team more self sufficient and less dependent on individual schedules.

We have a link on Slack with the template ad, and a list of sites to post it. We also need to keep track of the responses on these sites for some time afterwards to keep an eye out for people who read and respond later on.

http://thrivegame.wikidot.com/editors

http://thrivegame.wikidot.com/new-member-guidance

to reduce load impact on discourse when people view the devblogs

We have new compounds and processes that we can add to the wiki page here: http://thrivegame.wikidot.com/compound-system

it's still using http

It appears like the dev forums have a new feature for FAQ and About linked at the top of the page. We could use this feature to fill it in with the FAQ and About we currently have as threads.

Replace all entries in the wiki referring to the cell wall. It shouldn't prevent the placement of flagella. Other exterior organelles should be reconsidered before being updated.

This page is very out of date: http://revolutionarygamesstudio.com/our-team/

Many repos have shields like this on their readme:

Let's ignore the donation buttons for now, instead. Instead maybe something like "spread the word" kind of thing would be nice.

We should consider adding such to the main thrive repo.
Here's the markup for that bsf readme: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GameFoundry/bsf/master/README.md

add a link to the main site to https://translate.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/engage/thrive/

http://thrivegame.wikidot.com/thrive-abbreviations-dictionary

https://github.com/mdoggydog/DiscourseSsoConsumer

the sidebar has our other links but not those

We have a few social media sites we've neglected lately. We ought to post some updates to them soon and make sure to keep them in the loop of our activity so they don't look dead. The ones I know of so far that need these updates are:

• Twitter
• Steam
• Facebook
• Reddit

Secondly, in the long term, we should set some system so that we can ensure regular updates to social media. I'm thinking either a way of automating posts from one site to post to other sites, or creating a calendar and assigning people to post updates on scheduled dates of each month.

in the launcher, and probably need to configure the entire site to do that

As mentioned in this thread: http://forum.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/release-0-4-0-thread/378

We have quite a few users who applied and joined, but then just never became involved or did any development. Often all it takes is a quick reminder to get them on board. We do not have a list of contacts for this but we can organize and discuss this over Slack.

I saw some tweak info on discourse that increasing the database shared buffer sizes when the server has a lot of RAM

We have a new wiki here: https://wiki.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/wiki/Main_Page

I've set it to say the license is the same as the old one and that content is copied from there, that should cover us for copy-pasting the content.

Everyone with an account on the dev forums can login there.

Old wiki: http://thrivegame.wikidot.com/home

The wiki markup syntax is different so it needs a bit of work to get it converted (and even more if you can't view the page source on the old wiki).

Much of the content should also be marked with the {{Outdated}} template.

The next release will have some proper system requirements we should add somewhere:

At least Windows 7 (or modern Linux). And OpenGL 3.3+ support.
Also not about some quite old intel HD graphics having major issues.

More specifically: any AMD or nvidia card (that isn't ancient) or with intel at least HD graphics 4000

So I tried setting up next cloud (it's kinda working here: https://cloud.revolutionarygamesstudio.com)
But due to the auth plugin being really terrible it spews a lot of errors and no one has a password set so I can no longer change the admin area settings that need a password auth.

Also the editing libreoffice files in the cloud thing is just not working: https://help.nextcloud.com/t/collabora-failed-to-read-document-from-storage/58829?u=hhyyrylainen

If there is some experienced web dev / sys admin who would like to help, that would be nice.

I suggested this in Slack a while ago and think it's a worthy addition to the issues list here.

Since our previous Devblog was published all the way back in June, it's about time for another. Most of the workload since has been engine-related, so in my opinion our next Devblog should cover that. A lot of work was put into UE4 and then was scrapped. From the outside this appears like nothing; we need to tell people how we tried it and why we scrapped it. Same with Godot.

@hhyyrylainen You're closest to the engine side of things. Could you have a go at writing something up? It can be passed to the outreach people later for polishing and adding an introduction, but I doubt anyone but you could give a good explanation for what's happened.

we don't need to ask for desired username. We can now ask for their discord id so that we can recognize them when they join our developer discord, if accepted.

As mentioned in this thread: http://forum.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/release-0-4-0-thread/378

We should go through and try contacting old members of the team who haven't been active for a while. Be careful though not to contact ones who've already been emailed a few times before, we don't want to spam them.

The link to the doc with all the emails is on Slack.

the image on wiki about the button needs to be changed https://wiki.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/wiki/Linking_the_Launcher as the DevCenter is now redone

This is a test to see if the Github integration on slack is working.

If significant code blocks get posted there it would be nice to have syntax highlighting.
Maybe this plugin would work: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SyntaxHighlight

Now that the patreon is officially launched, a "become a patreon" button should be added to the main website (https://www.patreon.com/brand) or at least the become a patreon clickable image should be added.
As well as the https://wiki.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/wiki/Money_and_Thrive page should be updated. And maybe somewhere else should also be put links there. Maybe the community forums header or the pinned topics would be a good place.

We've never really had a process for people leaving, just being moved to the "inactive" developers pile after quite a long time.

Maybe we need to consider what steps to take if someone wants to leave? For example picking a new team lead or other role if they have some special roles. Do we need to change their discourse title, discord roles? Should they be blocked from using the wiki, thrive dev center?

as editing a remote theme is no longer allowed: https://meta.discourse.org/t/restrict-editing-of-remote-themes/170051

As discussed on several occasions, it might be a good idea to start posting mini development updates for fans who are not too in the loop, both to stimulate activity in the social media sites and show the fans what we are up to.

There are a lot of abbreviations here: http://thrivegame.wikidot.com/thrive-abbreviations-dictionary
that new users won't know.

It would be cool to display them on the forum whenever they are used. If there isn't a good abreviations plugin for discourse we might have to make one.

probably needs to be done in the feed building script.

In accordance with this post on this thread: http://forum.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/github-workflow/379/3

We should create a page on the wiki to explain to new users the usual workflow of the project.

@Oliveriver , I tweaked the simulation specifics page to be a page called Game Features so that it can be generally applied to all stages and so that it could also include subpages like Game Screens, this was to make it fit into the overall hierarchy of pages better.

I took out the section called TO-DO and instead I'll make an issue here, listing the same things you had listed that need to be done to update the Simulation Specifics, now Game Features, page:

• (Game Features) Add Procedural Generation, Environment Creation, Metabolism, AI and Statistics sections
• (Game Features) Complete CPA section
• (Game Features) Update Compounds section

http://thrivegame.wikidot.com/game-features

If you want to work on it feel free to assign yourself, otherwise I can do it tomorrow of the day after.

Related to this thread: http://forum.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/microbe-stage-gdd/77

The GDD on our Wiki has become a bit stale, since many of the features outlined in it have since been revised or dropped. Updating it to reflect these new ideas will be a mammoth task but (if we keep it up to date from then on) a worthwhile one.

However, keep in mind that the GDD should be as self-coherent as possible. That means any changes to one section may affect other sections, and those should be edited accordingly. This task will require people to scan through almost every dev forum thread since the GDD was made and find the most recent consensus on each feature.

Had we started this organisation a few weeks earlier I would have had time to work on this myself. As it stands I doubt I can get much of it done before I go off to university, where I have to assume I'll have little free time. It may be that multiple people can work on this.

I wonder if it would be possible in the future to have translation support for the Thrive website in Weblate? From what I see Weblate can host site translations.

Regards,
Georgi

Switch community and dev forum to use https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-header-links/90588 for the header bar links

The Biome page is quite out of date: http://thrivegame.wikidot.com/biomes

We should fill it with the current concept on biomes.