[Kde-games-devel] new/improved AI for Konquest

[Roney Gomes]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Alexander Schuch <aschuch247 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,

Hi.

> I am a KDE user for quite some time already, and I really enjoy playing
> Konquest. The problem is that I win nearly all games so that it is not that
> much of a challenge any more. I already analysed my own style of playing and
> put it into an AI (a year ago already).
>
> I now want that AI to be officially part of Konquest so that others can
> enjoy playing it. Back then I hacked the code into the present weak AI code,
> but this is nothing more than a hack. I am new to Qt and git, but I know
> quite some C++ and Subversion.
>
> My plan is to add this new AI as a separate class and make Konquest ready
> for others to simply include their own AIs without having to touch the GUI
> code. I know from own experience that reviewing large patches is a pain, so
> how is the desired process to get required refactoring done and accepted
> with as less hassles as possible?
>
> I am using the master branch in git and I can create patches via "git diff".
> If anyone can point me into the right direction, I very much appreciate it.

The approach I recommend is: apply your patch to a new branch, split
the work in a few commits and push them to the remote server. After
that you can send an e-mail to this list informing the existence of
the new branch asking us to review it.

    Roney