Red Alert 3

Bad news is the site is inevitably going down. But DolphinRider is kindly giving us the access to the code so that's good news. With source code publicly available, any community member can pick up the pieces of the web site and hopefully bring it back to life.

at this point every one knew this was inevitable...

i think its made in PHP...
if DolphinRider is kind enough to provide any documentation he made along with the code it can make a transition as painless as possible.

i'll atleast take a look at it and see what i can do.

Wait has Dolphin Rider actually approached GR? Or are you saying giving it out in general?

DolphinRider stated on his web site he is making the code generally available for any community member who wishes to continue his work.

"I will be posting source code for any other community sites that would like to take take advantage of what I've done so far"

This post has been edited by JimRaynor: Nov 18 2009, 22:04 PM

Would be nice for someone to pick it up, maybe even turn and put more work into it and into Clan Wars. So far the site is helpful and with the code and attachments, you can make the clan wars better and more fun to play.

Is there anyone that would actually be willing to do it though?

like i've said before i'll take a run at it.

my hero

Why? Was the site not making money? I didn't see an appeal for donations. Anyways, I'm very interested in the PHP source too, plus some of the formatting things they had. But there isn't anything specific I want to copy-use, except the query layer for GameSpy servers, maybe.

relax, i will give find a way =)

I too would like to offer my help keeping the site alive by providing hosting and/or programming.

I sent an email last weekend to offer my help but haven't got any reply yet.

omg Maista and JimRaynor are the BEST!!

hope it will get up, always had it on a tab, toghter with Ccup and gr.org ofc!

Good luck getting everything sorted out, hope it gets up soon.

and what about me ? I said I'd give it a shot too

lol, poor little prawn, just go back to your crappy shed will ya?

Oh and tell me the secret to your alien weaponry.

maybe a combined effort would be a wise decision?
if we do a combined effort however we'd need a chain of command and structure.
the best software is made with a military management structure.

No!
And don't try to buy me with cat food, the name is RedPawn not RedPrawn




Yes, a concerted effort would be much preferable than forking the project each on our own.

As for how to organize that effort, I'm not sure what you mean by "military management" but seeing that, at first, we'd be less than a handful contributing on a voluntary basis, I'd recommend a more community driven and Open Source approach.

In any case we'll need to set goals, define a project life cycle and assign responsibilities to be successful.

Maybe we should have some kind of meeting this weekend to talk about how each of us can contribute and share ideas?

a big part of this thing is the contents of the database.
we can't really have a 'community operated database' ....
because i think whoever pays for the serving up of all this data is going to want to be considered the owner of the data and may want to generate ad revenue from it in some way. from that perspective there would be a "command and control" structure in place.

but you are correct about the code... a community driven open source coding project could be good.

I agree, the "business" part of this project correspond to a specific implementation of the code.
So yes in that aspect it can't be open for all to decide and change.
Although we could imagine a way to release a dump of some part of the data on a regular basis... but that's thinking too far ahead

well also... we can split the project in 2 parts... data.. and code.
code is open source... data is not.
the information, database structure, indexes and some sample data can be placed in public domain
so that any interested developer can have an idea how everything works.

This post has been edited by JimRaynor: Nov 20 2009, 18:10 PM