Miniature/Development

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{{Miniature}}

Most content of this page has moved to http://miniature-chess.org/
We are waiting to get the BugzillaReports extension running to move the rest.

== Project status ==

Tasks for the next release get a HIGH priority. All the rest falls in the Backlog.

=== Miniature 0.5 release ===

Tasks COMMITTED for Miniature 0.5.

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=== Backlog ===

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=== Easyfix (suited for newcomers) ===

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Looking for more? There is more at the [http://miniature-chess.org/wiki/Wishlist Wishlist].

Miniature/Development

2011-08-25T04:36:18Z

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[[Category:Miniature|Development]]
[[Image:Miniature_Berlin_Defence.png|310px|thumb|The Berlin Defence, as seen in Miniature]]

== The concept ==
[[Miniature]] is a chess board that is always with you, ready to let you play and learn wherever you go.

* The main use case is playing online against other players at http://www.freechess.org/ (FICS)
* Now imagine that you can also chat with the other player.
* Play P2P games against other players next to you or remotely with your Contacts.
* Learning is important: watch games live, review stored games and also process offline the lessons offered at FICS.
* And not only regular chess. Think also on Suicide, Crazyhouse...

Miniature is a Qt application with a C/C++ backend and a QML UI. The architecture is modular, thinking on the addition of different servers and types of interaction.

We are targeting our development on MeeGo Harmattan and the Nokia N9 but we welcome maintainers for other ports e.g. MeeGo upstream, Symbian, Android-Necessitas, Qt powered desktops...

== Project news ==
* '''2011-08-23: [http://wiki.maemo.org/Miniature/0.3_Berlin_Defence Miniature 0.3 ''Berlin Defence''] released.'''
* 2011-08-15: New Miniature UX concepts integrated to the master branch - the new engine gets a UI ([http://wiki.maemo.org/images/2/25/2011-08-12_16-25-47.png screenshot]).
* 2011-08-13: Miniature can be developed using Qt Creator ([https://gitorious.org/miniature/miniature/blobs/raw/master/README.qt-sdk instructions]).
* 2011-08-01: [https://garage.maemo.org/pipermail/chess-developer/2011-August/000159.html Miniature 0.2.1 released!] The new Encore engine and the new QML UI, together for the first time. The game can do real seeks but still no real games.
* 2011-07-27: New UI targetting MeeGo Harmattan developed in parallel - [https://gitorious.org/testdef source] & [https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12315 packages] for Nokia N9/N950.
* 2011-07-18: engine refactored around [https://garage.maemo.org/pipermail/chess-developer/2011-July/000153.html Encore], a GNUChess wrapper. This is the beginning of a rewrite.
* 2011-07-06: request to port to [[Meego]] : http://forum.meego.com/showthread.php?p=25031

The Miniature project was born as a proposal sent to the Maemo community on 2009-10-31. Check the [[Miniature/archive|archive]] if you want to dig in the past.

== Project status ==

Tasks for the next release get a HIGH priority. All the rest falls in the Backlog.

=== Miniature 0.4 release ===

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=== Backlog ===

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Looking for more? There is more at the [[Miniature/Wishlist|Wishlist]].

== Get involved ==
Contributions are welcome! This is how you can get started:

* [[Miniature#Download|Download]] or [[#SDK instructions|build]] Miniature, and [[Miniature#Contact us|tell us]] what you think
* Spread the Miniature love among your Chess friendly contacts
* Test the game and [https://bugs.maemo.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=specific&order=relevance+desc&bug_status=__open__&product=Miniature&content= check/file bugs]
* Fix an open bug in the [[Miniature/Development#Backlog|Backlog]], for instance an [https://bugs.maemo.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=easyfix&query_format=advanced&keywords_type=allwords&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&product=Miniature&classification=Extras easyfix].
* Help planning and implementing [[Miniature/Wishlist|new features]]
* Help porting Miniature to more platforms

=== Localization ===
The localization work hasn't started yet and as a matter of fact our string are still not L10n ready. It's in our ToDo list, do you want to help?

=== SDK instructions ===
Currently you can build Miniature with the latest Qt SDK (including the Harmattan target) or the Harmattan Platform SDK. The Miniature sources and commit logs are available at https://gitorious.org/miniature/ . Both SDKs come with an emulator for deploying your app. All the better if you have a Nokia N950 or N9 to test on device.

Instructions to set you Miniature development environment:
* [https://gitorious.org/miniature/miniature/blobs/raw/master/README.qt-sdk Qt SDK]
* Harmattan Platform SDK instructions are currently missing. fwiw the [[Miniature/Development/Instructions|Maemo Platform SDK]] might help since both are based on Scratchbox...

=== Send us patches! ===
Found a bug? Spotted code smell? We glady accept patches! There are three ways to send patches to us:
* By [https://bugs.maemo.org/buglist.cgi?product=Miniature reporting the bug], and hopefully attaching a patch that solves the stated problem (but just reporting bugs is also appreciated).
* By using the [https://garage.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/chess-developer chess-devel mailing list]: A ML-friendly patch can be created with "git format-patch HEAD~n", where n specifices how many commits (starting from HEAD) should be converted to patches;
* By issuing a merge request: Send us a link to your public git repo (including branch/revision), or use the merge request feature from http://gitorious.org.

=== Architecture ===
See the [[Miniature/Development/Architecture|Miniature architecture]] wiki page. (outdated)

== Contributors ==
Maintainers:
* [http://maemo.org/profile/view/mikhas Michael Hasselmann]: lead developer
* [http://maemo.org/profile/view/qgil Quim Gil]: UX & documentation

Gave a big hand:
* [http://maemo.org/profile/view/kore Dennis Stötzel]: chess logics
* [http://maemo.org/profile/view/hasselmm Mathias Hasselmann]: veteran programmer
* [http://gitorious.org/~Malcolm Dariusz Mikulski]: P2P telepathy integration

Special thanks:
* [http://maemo.org/profile/view/kittykat kittykat]: game icon
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cburnett Colin M.L. Burnett]: free piece set used by Wikipedia

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