roadmap.md

Project status and roadmap

Current version being worked on:

v2.1 Daggerfall

Status	Title	Description
	Commands	Review and full translation of every lib/cmds command.
		➖ Test and translate every command, by user type: admin [#16].
	Documentation	Give some love to the /docs directory [#7].
	Player actions	Review every communications action [#23].
	Skills	Review skill system [#25].

Future versions:

Set of features not yet started, but planned.

v2.2 Edoras

Status	Title	Description
	Quests	Review quest system [#26].

Previous versions/milestones

v1.24.04 Castle Black

When finished, this version will be renamed as v2.0 and it will be the last alpha version.

Set of features we are currently working on:

Status	Title	Description
	Commands	Review and full translation of every lib/cmds command.
✅		➖ Add compatibility and status list in the repository (done).
✅		➖ Test and translate every command, by user type: login [#13].
✅		➖ Test and translate every command, by user type: player [#14].
✅		➖ Test and translate every command, by user type: coder [#15].
✅	Containers	Dockerfile to execute the mud inside a container, and related documentation.
✅	Encoding	Review files in the repository, not all of them are using the same encoding [#20].
✅	Basic objects	Full inheritance tree from the original ccmudlib, objects related to combat [#21].
✅		➖ weapon.c
✅		➖ armour.c
✅		➖ shield.c
✅	Basic binary connections	Start working with binary connections to allow future development of httpd, ftpd, etc [#22].

v1.21.09 Beregost

Status	Title	Description
✅	Product Identity	Logo and banner for the readme.md home document [#5].
✅	Improve query_verb()	Same treatment as the initiator objects to be sure we will never lose the original verb/command [#9]. Done with a full review and improvement of the mudos.c inner state, now using query_execution_context() and restore_execution_context().
✅	Multi Game	Finish the multigame features to allow hosting different games in the same server.
✅		➖ Default test area as game example (/games/demo-fantasy).
✅	Continuous integration	Automatic deploy to hosting when the master branch of this project is updated [#6].
✅		➖ Deploy simultaneously to both english and spanish servers.
✅	Basic objects	Full inheritance tree from the original ccmudlib, some files pending review since the v1.19.05 milestone.
✅		➖ monster to /lib/monster.c

v1.20.09 Anduin

Status	Title	Description
✅	Multilanguage	Allow multilanguage games. The language will be loaded in compilation time, using header files located automatically by the driver.
✅	this_player() and this_user() review	Full review of the initiator objects, during heartbeats, call_out, login, move and input/command execution.
✅	User and player objects	Separate the user object in user and player. Now there are two different linked objects, the player handles every in-game situation, while the user handles the connection, account info, input and output.
✅	Login user type	Basic user type to handle the connection with an account, creations of player characters, etc.
✅		➖ Allow execution of certain type of commands (who, finger, etc) during the login process.
✅		➖ Full review of the login process. Simplify the login object refactoring anything possible to the new login commands [#1].
✅	visible_strlen	Be able to calculate the real length of a string having in mind only the characters visible to the player [#2].
✅	Deprecate manager user	Remove code related to the manager user type. We have enough information with coder and administrator.

Up to v1.19.05

After version 1.19.05, we started working with milestones, prior to that, we only had a list of tasks to be done. The global list stays here for historical reasons.

Status	Title	Description
✅	MudOS compatibility	Being done, see the MudOS compatibility status document for more detailed information about each function.
✅	Cmds system	Include an implementation of the AuroraMud command (cmds) system. This will help test and debug everything as new commands are ported.
✅	Test and document	Test and document the current status of the project. We use this document and the MudOS compatibility status document.
✅	Heartbeats	Handling of the object "turns" and pending actions.
✅	Rooms and movement	Environments, inventories, move functions, move commands between rooms. init function calling.
✅	Actions and this_player()	Actions, init function calling, this_player(), query_verb() and notify_fail().
✅	exec command	Command to execute LPC code on the fly to help test everything.
✅	User types and login	Players, coders, managers, administrators, etc. and their login process.
✅	Shadows	Emulate MudOS shadows.
✅	Basic objects	Full inheritance tree from the original ccmudlib
✅		➖ coder, manager, administrator to the different user roles.
✅		➖ living to /lib/living/living.c.
✅		➖ player to /lib/player.c (avatar in-game handling) and /lib/user.c (user account, connection, input and output)
✅		➖ item to /lib/item.c.
✅	Migrations	User migrations to update user data.

For more information about the different versions of the project, take a look to the about page in maldorne.org.