Profit going forward

Therendil · #1 03-20-2012, 05:42 PM

I need to get a sense of direction here, and I'm going to ask for input to help me decide. Now that Silat has quit EQ2, ProfitUI is left without an active maintainer. I like Profit a lot and I don't want to see it go away. I am not a coder, however, and not in a good place to learn enough on short notice to really take over maintenance myself. I am a good tester and admin, so I can take on serious work testing changes, pushing stuff to update servers, etc. I can also continue to answer questions in the forums up to the limit of my knowledge. Given that, here are my questions:

1. To anyone: do we want to keep Profit going? I like it a lot and I know it's still in pretty wide use. I've used Drums, but prefer Profit (not saying one is *better* than the other).

2. To anyone who has worked on Profit - how much can you help here? I'm including Silat in this question. I can handle most testing, as well as admin if I have what I need to push files to the updater.

If we can't muster the resources to keep Profit going, then so be it. I'll use it until it breaks and then think of something else.

**TalTal** · #2 03-20-2012, 06:05 PM

I will help maintain it if no one else steps forward ....but not reliably. I'm sure my visits to the game and eq2interface forums will become less frequent as time goes by. But if I realize there is a problem, no one else fixes it, and I have the time to do so then I will.

Silat

Therendil · #3 03-20-2012, 07:19 PM

That is as much as I could ask, so thank you. You know the code as well as anyone. so I was hoping you could help. Even if it no more than telling me what to look for in which file, it will help me keep things moving.

Katz_Mckatz · #4 03-23-2012, 04:42 PM

I would love for it to continue but I'm afraid I have no knowledge of coding at all.

tknarr · #5 03-25-2012, 02:23 PM

I know XML pretty well from work, and I've gotten moderately familiar with the UI system. The main problem is time: when a patch comes out I can't start looking at it until I get home from work. But if someone can nail down the significant changes, I'm willing to take a stab at updating the XML to work.

Speaking of which, does anyone recall diffs for the recent change to add the YouTube video sharing to the sharing tab? Updating Profit for that'd be a good basic test for me, and having the diffs to the default UI would help me double-check that I found the right bits.

**TalTal** · #6 03-25-2012, 05:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tknarr

I know XML pretty well from work, and I've gotten moderately familiar with the UI system. The main problem is time: when a patch comes out I can't start looking at it until I get home from work. But if someone can nail down the significant changes, I'm willing to take a stab at updating the XML to work.

Speaking of which, does anyone recall diffs for the recent change to add the YouTube video sharing to the sharing tab? Updating Profit for that'd be a good basic test for me, and having the diffs to the default UI would help me double-check that I found the right bits.

I made that change locally to all 3 variants. Here are the changed files for profit and you can compare them to get the idea if you would like.

Silat