Rarified announced on the OpenUru forums today the opening of the Minkata test shard.
Why is this important? As rarified explains:
The test shard will be the place where programming (and hopefully in the future, content) contributions to open source Uru projects can be experienced by players, and provide an opportunity for players to submit problem reports about those contributions. Exposing changes, fixes, and new features through public use of the shard is an essential step in identifying problems before those contributions are passed back to Cyan for incorporation into the public Myst Online Uru Live: Again game servers.
If you would like to help test things out, rarified outlines how to access the shard.
In another OpenUru post, Mac_Fife describes how to report bugs found on the shard. Two systems are available: JIRA (ultimately the preferred way, but some might find it dauntingly technical) and a far-friendlier support ticket system called Hesk.
I’ve tried out the latter — it is very straightforward to use.
Finally, and in connection with the above, JWPlatt is asking for volunteers:
We need volunteers to review bug reports and feature requests from this basic ticket system, then consolidate support requests into unique issues and enter them into our JIRA tracking system on Foundry. We expect all issue reports to eventually end up submitted as a JIRA issue, even if they do not start there. (For those who are familiar with JIRA, please use it directly to save time and effort.)
Experience with JIRA is a plus. No experience is necessary if you are an independent thinker and eager to learn.
So: some exciting developments and opportunities along the road to open-source MOULa.
thednivoice said,
December 22, 2011 at 2:22 PM
VERY exciting news! I am currently waiting for my download to finish
Skydiver Watashi said,
December 23, 2011 at 8:50 PM
Tried to download Minkata shard and get and error message…Con’t have dedx9_27.dll
Dot said,
December 24, 2011 at 2:26 AM
This is unfortunately a common problem — I’ve seen it now with several shards. The solution is explained in an OpenUru Helpdesk article: DirectX Error (missing d3dx9_27.dll) Launching CWE Client
Skydiver Watashi said,
December 23, 2011 at 10:24 PM
found dll but now it crashes going from avitar choice to relto with a whole list of errors…3 out of 3 times
UruLive.Live.1.902 – External.Release
Exception type: Access violation
Call stack (14 levels):
0×00000000
0×00000000
0×00000000
0×00000000
0×00000000
0x77759EA5
0x77759ED2
0x764B339A
0x0088195A
0x7C34C456
0x06F58534
0×00462859
0x0053D9ED
0x0053F79B
Dot said,
December 24, 2011 at 2:30 AM
Thanks for the feedback! Would you consider ticketing this at the OpenUru helpdesk at http://support.openuru.org/?