[crossfire] Why does no one commit MLAB? Do you reject my maps? Is it personal?!

[Mitch Obrian]

Salathar has been off the chart for a bit.
I made a new release with the dir structure cleaned up
abit (the maps are still in the one dir but the other
stuff is in their own dirs).

     
     https://cat2.dynu.ca/cat2/crossfiremaps-mlab-R16.tar.gz
     
     

all the arches that are in mlab are in
     
     https://cat2.dynu.ca/crossfirearch
     
      
(Sans navarian, I didnt use any in mlab, so the proper
name change dosn't affect it :) )

--- Todd Mitchell <
     
     temitchell at sympatico.ca
     
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      Basically it's easier to deal with smaller things
     
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      than great big things.
     
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      To commit maps to CVS they have to be tested, any
     
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      arches they use have
     
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      to be in the arch CVS and tested before that, and
     
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      any maps they touch on
     
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      have to be checked as well (within reason).  Also if
     
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      there are scritps
     
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      or widgets or other things that need to be used to
     
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      generate or massage
     
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      the sources - well we have to take time to deal with
     
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      that stuff before
     
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      we can even start.
     
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      Add this to the amount of time we can spend on
     
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      crossfire (many folks
     
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      have spouses, jobs, kids, other projects and down
     
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      time) and you can
     
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      easily see why a small change like the Navar maps
     
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      can be done (that
     
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      small change still took a few hours out of a busy
     
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      Sunday) while
     
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      something like the mlab maps is just off the scale. 
     
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      Other developers
     
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      were taking on the chore of this mapset so I have
     
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      not even looked at it
     
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      for some time.
     
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      If I commit something I have to take responsibility
     
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      for it and if I
     
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      screw up and Metalforge is in chaos or down because
     
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      of something I did
     
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      and I don't want to have to go without sleep on a
     
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      work night to fix it.
     
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      So this is why we have:
     
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      "bronze items, ores, bars, [and] even the new
     
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      mid-east style arches"
     
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      They were managable pieces.
     
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      Lots of things I have been waiting for for a long
     
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      time.  I have projects
     
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      on the go as well (smuggler quest has been a looong
     
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      time in the making)
     
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      I keep picking away at what I can commit and keep
     
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      the works in progress
     
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      in progress.  The thing is you either wait or you do
     
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      it yourself.  If
     
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      you don't have CVS access (and likely even if you
     
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      do) you have to make
     
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      your submissions as easy as possible to test and
     
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      submit them.  If you
     
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      have a bug fix request you make it as easy as
     
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      possible for someone to
     
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      locate and fix it, an enhancement request, as easy
     
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      as possible for
     
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      someone to implement it, if you have new graphics
     
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      you make them as easy
     
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      as possible for people to get and test...
     
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      You get the picture. Besides I thought Salathar or
     
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      Ryo were working on
     
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      the maps.
     
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