[crossfire] Project Gridarta started

[Christian Hujer]

Dear People,

(intended audience: map makers, active gamers and developers of crossfire and 
derived mmorpgs, especially angelion, crossfire, daimonin)

The DaimoninEditor, Daimonin's successor of the CFJavaEditor, has "grown up" 
and become a sourceforge project of its own. It is called "Gridarta" now. The 
name Gridarta combines "grid" and "art" and coincidently also reminds of 
"Siddhartha".
The project "Gridarta" was founded by zergus and me (Cher).

@devs: I hope I have added all relevant (in the sense of interested in active 
Java map editor development) developers of Crossfire and Daimonin to the 
Gridarta development team. If you think you should belong there but were 
forgotten, please send me an e-mail. 

IMPORTANT
@devs: Also don't forget to subscribe the gridarta mailling lists.
@all: read more on the new gridarta homepage http://gridarta.sourceforge.net/

CURRENT PROJECT PLAN
1. Import source of both, Crossfire and Daimonin's Java map editors in 
Gridarta. (done)
2. Setup build environment which fits the needs of both projects. (done)
3. Release the first version of Gridarta for Daimonin.
4. Replace Daimonin's Java map editor in Daimonin's cvs repository with 
something that gets Gridarta instead.
5. Merge Crossfire's editor into Daimonin's editor, whilst creating a test 
suite which performs the required tests whether gridarta works correctly with 
current crossfire resp. daimonin data.

FINAL STATEMENT
Long live Crossfire and Daimonin! Happy mapping :)

-- 
Christian Hujer
Free software developer
E-Mail: cher at riedquat.de
WWW: http://www.riedquat.de/