This is a conversation i had with Donzaemon at 16:00 utc today!!!
donzaemon: hi
You: hi:)
You: Nice programming of donzbot.u do nice work in this subjects...congrats:)
You: do u know anyone who knows ruby? except of madmatt?
donzaemon: thanks .. I like backgammon so I put some work into this stuff ... I have a pretty good database of cube positions for learning the game better too
donzaemon: ... don't know any ruby programmers .... I'm sure there are many programmers who could do it with some documentation in hand, though
You: ohhh u read the post....right?
donzaemon: not lately .. what's happening ?
You:
http://www.fibsboard.com/index.php?showtopic=785 (We talked about this Post)
You: i wrote a good description but i got a negative answer from madmatt
donzaemon: doesn't sound 'negative' .. he just doesn't have time to do it .... my idea
would be to keep the current tourneybot the way it is but also have anotherupgraded
one with the features of having records etc. as a special tourneybot that can do the 'official' tournaments
donzaemon: .. and have them less often ... but with longer match lengths
You: wow good suggestion!!!! u are unbelievable!!!
You: but there is still a problem.... who is going to host it?
You: webrunner can't host another bot
donzaemon: .. inim was talking about getting a rental server .. virtual OS in a data center type thing when he gets his bots going ... if he does that it would be a great place to put something like that
donzaemon: apparently they have some really cheap ones in Germany or something
You: ohhh nice
You: so if the advancetourneybot....will be created...a lot can be changed for fibs community:)
donzaemon: but he hasn't yet ... he is working on a couple of interesting thing .. he is going to tweak the tourneybot interface and make it into a regular playing bot with GNU on the back end
You: but we need a ruby programmer and inim's server when he will buy it
You: hmmm so he already try to modified it...right?
donzaemon: have you talked to inim about it ? he is doing some neat stuff and has become very comfortable with fibs and interfacing to it ..
You: wow. I'll speak to him
donzaemon: I would take a look at it but I am starting to get REALLY busy with other
stuff recently
You: thx u very much donz:) Can u post your extension idea as a replay to my post?
You: it is a veryyyyyyyy good one:)
donzaemon: what extension ? the model for deploying and promoting it by making
it host the 'official' tournaments ? that's not a big deal and is subject to change .. the
person who deploys it should probably decide how all that works
You: and the new advancetourneybot can play in all official tourneys too:)
donzaemon: I don't know ... host playing in the tournament may or may not be a good idea ... BUT .. you could use it as a promotion .... winner get's an extra bonus by their name if they then beat the bot or something
You: the idea to create a new bot similar to this one but more advance for official tourneys...
You: hmmm or only the title owners can play this bot
You: so more people will try to win official Tourneys.Good idea:)
donzaemon: yeah .. or .. there is always a special match for the winner after the tournament ... and if you win it you get a different color trophy or something ... makes it just that much more special
donzaemon: but there will be enough work just getting the extra features set up WITHOUT making it a GNU bot
You: yes i know
donzaemon: so maybe that should be a 'second wave' idea .. after the other is already working
You: I understand...
You: but if we make it works with the first idea...it's a peace of cake for u to make it
a gnu bot...
You: so if we find a lot of people to work together we can create the ultimate bot here
You: if i find the guys to make the new bot and inim agree to host it...are u going to make it a gnu bot?
donzaemon: inim could do that much better than I could .. I'm not too familiar with GNU and he is working on interfacing tourneybot for it .... but i could look at it and maybe figure something out
You: ok. Can i post this conversation? I find very important all the topics
donzaemon: yeah if you want to
You: thx u very much donzaemon...
You: i will post it as a reply in my post
You: so do i have your permission right?
donzaemon: yeah .. I don't mind
You: ok thx again