So how does it work?

[sahar]

How does it work wih H5 / Etheria development? do you apply fixes done on etheria on the h5 and vice versa or?
The reason I ask this is because I wonder where the devs of l2j dedicate their development time, i'm new to l2j was using acis as my interlude server for more than 2 years, decided to upgrarde to h5.
Right now my server is on beta, and within a few weeks of beta wih around 50 unique online people in average i've reported more than 10 important bugs, so I don't think working on a later version of L2 is really a good idea before the previous version is even finished, or at least being close to retail-like...

[UnAfraid]

There is no such thing as finished version.
We are working on both branches if something fits the other branch it gets merged there too.
Only me and Sdw from the team are focused on Ertheia the others are focused on high five.

[Sdw]

I'm (we are) syncing the Ertheia branch weekly with H5 patches.

Common stuff for both branch goes in H5 and are sync as mentioned above.

I don't think you see how hard it is to find people with skills or just willing to learn to actually help doing something. Free and volunteer work eating a lot of free time doesn't sound that attractive he ?

Now, personally, I pushed for the opening of an Ertheia branch a lot. I got bored with H5 and I'm not touching it for almost 6 month now, and I'm really not planning to do so, except if I'm doing something common. That's my choice, my time, and I want to spend it as I want, and I really _don't care_ if the H5 branch is unfinished as I won't be using it. That's selfish yeah, but keep in mind the fun drives us, and H5 is no fun to me.

[sahar]

I do understand the hard work of it, and I came here to just understand how it works, because I do belive that most of the H5 features are common with etheria, and that if they are incomplete or not working properly in h5, then they will obviously be broken on etheria aswell, thats why I was wondering why to start a new branch before the previous one works fine...

Just a small example, the level 80 symbols which were here from interlude, are still not working at all on H5...

Thanks for the answers thought, appreciate that

[Zoey76]

Sahar, we decided at Inner Circle level, that we could change how L2j was working, for example instead of focusing on the latest version, we kind of stalled on High Five, which was nice because we completed and reworked many features, but we were losing some developers that wanted to work in other server versions (Interlude, Ertheia), the change was (thanks to Git), you work on the server version you desire and L2j official (most complete, tested, etc) version is at the moment High Five.

Seeing a lot of activity on Ertheia branch, doesn't mean that we forgot about other server versions.

I hope you grasp the idea about the development from our point of view.

[sahar]

Thanks Zoey for the detailed answer, I do appreciate it and understand now your PoV, I actually agree with it
Still, finding such amount of bugs within a few weeks of beta with around 50 online players made me alittle bit frustrated, considering the fact that some of them are common to all of the l2j versions you mentioned...

[Gladicek]

Thanks Zoey for the detailed answer, I do appreciate it and understand now your PoV, I actually agree with it
Still, finding such amount of bugs within a few weeks of beta with around 50 online players made me alittle bit frustrated, considering the fact that some of them are common to all of the l2j versions you mentioned...

Then fix them and share it for L2J. Problem solved

[sahar]

If i'll manage to create fixes surely ill share them, right now im in beta phase and im testing my own features and fixing them, any l2j related issue is being reported, i wont have any problem testing stuff on my server btw of any of the l2j devs manage to try a fix.