Looking for plugin developers taking over

[blizzy78]

Hey,

As some of you may know, I have developed quite a few plugins for KSP. Now, I'm the kind of guy that never quite stops getting his hands dirty with new stuff - which has the inevitable consequence of getting my plate fuller each time. That in turn makes it difficult to expand and support existing stuff.

So, to keep this story short, I am looking for plugin developers wanting to take over some of my plugins, to keep expanding on them, and also to be managing support requests from players. These are the plugins that I'm looking for a new owner for:

- Interactive in-game tutorial plugins: Docking / Rendezvous / Moon Travel

- Voice Commander - control crafts with your voice (very small user base, but might be interesting nonetheless)

Already taken:

- Achievements - earn achievements while playing - new thread: here

- Internet Relay Chat (IRC) - chat while playing - new thread: here

- Ambient Light Adjustment - who needs lights in space?! - new/old thread: here

- Online engine cluster calculator (browser-based, JavaScript) - new thread: here

If you want to take over one of these, please contact me via PM. You will be getting all source files, asset source files, and the like. Plugins that are on GitHub should simply be forked there. The plugin threads can be changed so that you are the owner of the thread (this will require assistance from moderators.)

Please note that I'd like the licenses to stay the same. In the case of GPL, I will not relicense them under a different license. In the case of the BSD license, it is technically your choice to change the license at will, but it would be cool if it would stay the same.

If you have any further questions, just contact me via PM or in this thread.

Edited December 20, 2014 by blizzy78

[blizzy78]

malkuth has taken over the Achievements plugin in this new thread. I'm excited because I expect lots of interaction with his Mission Controller plugin

[ilo]

Hi, it might take a while, but if anyone else is showing interest, I'd take over the interactive in-game tutorial plugins: Docking / Rendezvous / Moon Travel.

I guarantee a slow learning curve, but I'm keen to start working.

[blizzy78]

timmers_uk has taken over the IRC plugin in this new thread.

[VITAS]

HI can i host a copy of the Online engine cluster calculator on d-mp.org?I want to build a web tool section.

[blizzy78]

Are you willing to maintain it, too? It needs to be updated whenever one of KSP's engines changes, or one of the supported mods. I'm not looking for hosting only, I can do that myself.

[Sniperlrsw]

So like 2 days ago i pm'd you expressing interest in taking over the engine cluster calculator, i'm wondering if you got that or not as i have not heard back from you yet.

[blizzy78]

Sorry for the delay. You mentioned that you are learning JavaScript right now, do you really think it is a good idea to take on that project? Some of the stuff in there is quite heavy, for example I'm using WebWorkers to fully utilize the user's CPU.

[Sniperlrsw]

well i looked at some of the source code and it looks like it would be fairly easy just to keep engine stats updated.

Edited December 16, 2014 by Sniperlrsw

[blizzy78]

That single part isn't rocket science, I agree.

[Rockstar04]

I would be able to take over the engine cluster calculator. I am a web developer, and work on/with GitHub all day.

That being said, I would also love to see someone who wants to learn more about web development (or development in general) take a role.

Blizzy, have you considered making a group on GitHub, so someone like Sniperlrsw would be able to take the lead on maintaining the project, then other members of the group could step in if they needed help triaging a more challenging issue?

[timmers_uk]

I can take on Ambient light adjustment if that's ok - will prepare a forked build tonight hopefully if the kids don't hassle me too much.

Thanks,

Timmer

[Sniperlrsw]

Blizzy, have you considered making a group on GitHub, so someone like Sniperlrsw would be able to take the lead on maintaining the project, then other members of the group could step in if they needed help triaging a more challenging issue?

This actually seems like a great idea, it means that problems that are over my head still can get fixed but i still have some involvement.

If we were to do this, would you be willing to be a member of the group?

[Rockstar04]

This actually seems like a great idea, it means that problems that are over my head still can get fixed but i still have some involvement.

If we were to do this, would you be willing to be a member of the group?

Absolutely!

[Sniperlrsw]

We've got our team, now we just need to get blizzy's ok and we're good to go!

[blizzy78]

timmers_uk has taken over the Ambient Light Adjustment plugin over here in the old thread. I expect that the thread will be reopened soon.

[blizzy78]

Sorry for the late reply, somehow my subscription to this thread seems to have gotten lost.

Blizzy, have you considered making a group on GitHub, so someone like Sniperlrsw would be able to take the lead on maintaining the project, then other members of the group could step in if they needed help triaging a more challenging issue?

Sounds like a good idea to me, I can do that. Now, have you considered where to host it then? It does not need any server side components. (Well, if you remove this part. I put it in to get some usage statistics.) You just need some hosting for the static HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files.

[Sniperlrsw]

Well VITAS has asked if he can host a copy, wonder if he'd be willing to host it.

[Rockstar04]

Sorry for the late reply, somehow my subscription to this thread seems to have gotten lost.

Sounds like a good idea to me, I can do that. Now, have you considered where to host it then? It does not need any server side components. (Well, if you remove this part. I put it in to get some usage statistics.) You just need some hosting for the static HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files.

Oh, I didnt realize you were looking for someone to take over hosting as well. No worries I will gladly host it!

Edit: I just bought a domain kerbalenginecalc.com and spun up a small droplet on digital ocean.

I will get nginx and varnish installed and then pull the lastest version of the code in.

Edited December 18, 2014 by Rockstar04

[blizzy78]

Looks like it is running just fine there.

[Rockstar04]

Looks like it is running just fine there.

Yup, updates are a simple git pull, and when the repo gets changed to a group, I will just update the remotes and all will be well.

[blizzy78]

Hmm, I guess it should be enough to add you guys as collaborators, and not use the full-fledged organizations feature GitHub provides? I'd need your GitHub user names, though.

[Rockstar04]

Hmm, I guess it should be enough to add you guys as collaborators, and not use the full-fledged organizations feature GitHub provides? I'd need your GitHub user names, though.

Thats easy enough for me, its just Rockstar04

[blizzy78]

Alright, you're added.

[Sniperlrsw]

my github user name is sniperlrsw