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Die Hard 2013.
Purpose of this topic:
1: Discussing the leaderboards plan.
2: We need coders!
3: Course of action?
4: Who is involved?
5: Why should you care?
1: Discussing the leaderboards plan.
Leaderboards Document:
READ THIS: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sd4kis4bLDg-lyXHAteYeJeakhWqAWBIuZBfNPvi490
- This document was written by Cosmo and Kirkq with great input from SRL IRC channel #leaderboards and discussions with others.
This document attempts to express the current vision for the project in order to better generate discussion. The leaderboards document and implementation is by no means finalized. We want the plan to best represent the best implementation for the community, so we welcome further discussion.
Please read the document fairly thoroughly before asking questions or giving feedback. The document isn't perfectly organized, but it currently gives a good idea of what we are trying to do. Dissenting opinions will be heard out, but be civil about it. I'd encourage people to sum up all of their current thoughts in one post instead of having discussion one sentence at a time.
2: We need coders!
This project does not have a lead developer currently. We especially need people familiar with databases, search queries, and forum integration. Give us some idea of your abilities/specialties. For now, you can post here and/or PM me online method of contact if you'd like. I will not be the one ultimately organizing the project from a coding standpoint, but I can pass that information on. We will probably get a github going at some point.
3: Course of action?
0:
- Launch seasons 2 this month. (Get this taken care of and out of the way.)
1a:
- Create SRL forums
- Create SRL logins
- Integrate user accounts for SRL forums, SRL races, SRL leaderboards, and IRC. (This is difficult.)
- Allow flexibility for creation of user privileges/access levels later.
1b:
- Create mockups of leaderboards pages and user pages.
- They will be functionally fairly similar to http://zeldaspeedruns.com/leaderboards/oot/any
2:
- Launch a beta of the site featuring maybe the most popular 20 or so games.
3:
- Allow user submissions.
- Allow moderator control of categories.
- Implement user pages for combined Races and Leaderboards.
4:
- Implement a long term game/console organizational structure.
- Allow category and new game submissions by users.
4: Who is involved?
Currently most of the recent work on the leaderboards plan has been organized by Cosmo and Kirkq with discussions by many others in the past. SRL has coders such as puchiedarcy, Mundungu, and IvanGS among others. puchiedarcy doesn't really have the time to lead this project like he has much of the SRL site up until now. Some of the other coders are interested, but do not have the ability/time to implement all aspects. I don't personally know specifics about web design, but I do have an electrical engineering degree and other coding knowledge. I'm mostly involved to help organize and get this project get moving. Cosmo has done front-end work with SRL, but doesn't have the time or ability to implement the back-end.
Now that we've come up with a better idea of what we're aiming for over the last month or two, we're wanting to help others get involved.
5: Why should you care?
This isn't intended to be our project. It's the community's project. It's meant to be a resource for the community. It's a resource for SRL. It's a resource for SDA. It's a resource so you can stop having to ask who has the record all the time. It's a resource to better publicize our hobby and bring in new runners.
A leaderboard can only be as valuable as those who contribute to it. Without community support this project cannot be as successful as we all hope.
1: Discussing the leaderboards plan.
2: We need coders!
3: Course of action?
4: Who is involved?
5: Why should you care?
1: Discussing the leaderboards plan.
Leaderboards Document:
READ THIS: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sd4kis4bLDg-lyXHAteYeJeakhWqAWBIuZBfNPvi490
- This document was written by Cosmo and Kirkq with great input from SRL IRC channel #leaderboards and discussions with others.
This document attempts to express the current vision for the project in order to better generate discussion. The leaderboards document and implementation is by no means finalized. We want the plan to best represent the best implementation for the community, so we welcome further discussion.
Please read the document fairly thoroughly before asking questions or giving feedback. The document isn't perfectly organized, but it currently gives a good idea of what we are trying to do. Dissenting opinions will be heard out, but be civil about it. I'd encourage people to sum up all of their current thoughts in one post instead of having discussion one sentence at a time.
2: We need coders!
This project does not have a lead developer currently. We especially need people familiar with databases, search queries, and forum integration. Give us some idea of your abilities/specialties. For now, you can post here and/or PM me online method of contact if you'd like. I will not be the one ultimately organizing the project from a coding standpoint, but I can pass that information on. We will probably get a github going at some point.
3: Course of action?
0:
- Launch seasons 2 this month. (Get this taken care of and out of the way.)
1a:
- Create SRL forums
- Create SRL logins
- Integrate user accounts for SRL forums, SRL races, SRL leaderboards, and IRC. (This is difficult.)
- Allow flexibility for creation of user privileges/access levels later.
1b:
- Create mockups of leaderboards pages and user pages.
- They will be functionally fairly similar to http://zeldaspeedruns.com/leaderboards/oot/any
2:
- Launch a beta of the site featuring maybe the most popular 20 or so games.
3:
- Allow user submissions.
- Allow moderator control of categories.
- Implement user pages for combined Races and Leaderboards.
4:
- Implement a long term game/console organizational structure.
- Allow category and new game submissions by users.
4: Who is involved?
Currently most of the recent work on the leaderboards plan has been organized by Cosmo and Kirkq with discussions by many others in the past. SRL has coders such as puchiedarcy, Mundungu, and IvanGS among others. puchiedarcy doesn't really have the time to lead this project like he has much of the SRL site up until now. Some of the other coders are interested, but do not have the ability/time to implement all aspects. I don't personally know specifics about web design, but I do have an electrical engineering degree and other coding knowledge. I'm mostly involved to help organize and get this project get moving. Cosmo has done front-end work with SRL, but doesn't have the time or ability to implement the back-end.
Now that we've come up with a better idea of what we're aiming for over the last month or two, we're wanting to help others get involved.
5: Why should you care?
This isn't intended to be our project. It's the community's project. It's meant to be a resource for the community. It's a resource for SRL. It's a resource for SDA. It's a resource so you can stop having to ask who has the record all the time. It's a resource to better publicize our hobby and bring in new runners.
A leaderboard can only be as valuable as those who contribute to it. Without community support this project cannot be as successful as we all hope.
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