Closing the category

[Wingy]

Just to give you a heads up, since the beta is over, I believe we are going to delete the testing category. Thanks for everyone who participated in beta testing, you guys were awesome! I think we owe a big hand to Vern and his designing team for helping create such an awesome game.

Thanks again!

@Vern/Admins: We are deleting this category, right? I'm just making an assumption.

[RobSeegel]

Can you do that next week, Anthony? I'm going to look over the threads one last time. I may go and grab any downloads I see of DDD Hard, just for my own purposes. My biggest regret while I was working on DDD Hard was that I didn't make use of a Version Control tool throughout the process.

Also, I'm unsure if Vern is still trying to collect movies or anything else. I know in the past when I've done software releases I've been reluctant to quickly trash development/test infrastructure until at least a week or two following a release. It can be educational to go back through some of the posts. Often, little things get missed in the heat of testing/development that you may discover (or re-discover because you forgot all about it). Bugs, feature requests, etc.

Something else I don't really expect to happen, is something called a retrospective.  It provides a bit of closure, and may provide information that serves to make the next release more successful. I'd planned to send Vern an email if nothing else, with my thoughts on the overall process as a mini-retrospective. If there were aspects that you thought went really well, or others that were a bit problematic. That information is really useful, especially while it's still fresh in your mind, and the old posts help my memory.

Thanks!

[brell]

16282F2638410 wrote: Just to give you a heads up, since the beta is over, I believe we are going to delete the testing category. Thanks for everyone who participated in beta testing, you guys were awesome! I think we owe a big hand to Vern and his designing team for helping create such an awesome game.

Thanks again!

@Vern/Admins: We are deleting this category, right? I'm just making an assumption.

I think we should leave the decision to Vern in case he wants to keep it for historical reasons. Anyway we are not in a hurry.

[Wingy]

Yeah, we'll see what Vern thinks first, but I just wanted to give you guys a heads up of the potential deletion of this category. We don't really need it now, do we.

It will be around for at least another week Rob, don't worry. Probably more. It doesn't matter to us that much.

[margherita64]

Oh... I'll miss you all :'(

[Wingy]

515D4E5B54594E55485D0A083C0 wrote: Oh... I'll miss you all :'(

We'll still be on the forums Marg... the category is just the testing area, not the whole forums.

[VernJensen]

In theory we don't need this category anymore. I don't need it.

However, why not move it to the bottom, right under Speaker's Corner? Is that possible? Then we can leave it around for a few months, and then delete it. It's invisible to most members anyway.

[Wingy]

I can't find a way to move categories. I looked, and couldn't find how. I know how to move boards between categories, so I was able to switch the MM/MM2 category (there was already that sequel category which is now gone) and just renamed the categories and switched the boards in them around.

If someone els can, best to move it to the bottom, I guess.

[Semi-Native]

I figured it out. It's under Forum Controls/Categories. Then you click the button at the top in front of Manage Categories (or something like that).

[Wingy]

That explains a lot. Thanks!