[glob2-devel] New features, beta and glob2's future

[Stephane Magnenat]

Hi everyone,

Glob2 alpha13 has been released. This new release brings:
- New GL backend
- Gzipped transfer of map through Internet

With this release, I consider Glob2 ready for Beta. One missing thing is the 
proper support for Voice Over IP for OS with no OSS support (win32 and OS X). 
It would be very nice if port maintainers of those OS could add the 
microphone support (in VoiceRecorder.h/.cpp). If you are such a maintainer 
and want to add it, please say so. Otherwise, in some days and if no critical 
bug has been discovered we'll release Glob2 as Beta.

This brings me to our third point: Glob2's future. As you have probably 
noticed, for now our development force is critically low: Nuage is busy 
working at day and coding a commercial game at night (we are not student 
anymore and we need to eat...) and I'm under a lot of pressure with my PhD 
and have few energy left to work on Glob2 in the few free moments I have, 
especially if the work consists in debugging and administration. 
Nevertheless, as seen by today's release, I've no intention to let Glob2 die; 
we have worked 5 years on it we'll not drop it now. But I'll try to go as 
fast as possible toward a 1.0 release, new contributors and a wider 
community. I'm also ready to give up project leadership if someone competant 
and motivated wants it.

I'm interested to hear your comments about this.

I've updated TrackBack and put new on savannah. If someone can put news of 
alpha13 in the usual places it's nice, otherwise I'll do it when I have some 
times, but right now I'm too tired for more administration.

Have fun,

Steph

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