Contributor's guidelines

Contributors are encouraged to consider how pragmatic their additions are to the project.

pragmatic

Only come up with suggestions that work towards realising the ideal objective.
Some enterprises work best by starting and seeing where you get; artistic endevours, explorative expeditions, brainstorming, etc. Others require some kind of vision; projects, collective enterprises, scientific investigations. In reality, there is always something of both in every mindful endevour, and this is particularly the case when dealing with people. Because of the philosophy behind the open-source movement, which celebrates transparency and invites participation, the idea of having 1,000,000 players is not a controlled directive, but an invitation. No-one is being paid to work on something, no-one is following orders. Things can get messy, things can go in all kinds of directions. Hence the call for an ideal objective

positive/constructive

contention decisions

working metaphors

overal structure

open-source philosophy

Since all pages on the wiki are editable, all contributions must be constructive and additive: alternative solutions are explored like the growing branches of a tree. Visitors are invited to contribute to to the expansion of any idea, comparing different branches of solutions. Arguments, contention, are conducted in forum, chatroom, or informally through PM's, emails, or telephoney eg skype. The overal structuring of this invitation follows the transition tree of Theory of Constraints, a process engineering tool; we may also want to use the process-management mechanisms followed by the developers, eg with version 0.2.7.1 replaced by 0.2.8, patch-programming and trunk modifications, and following open-source philosophy. Alternative steps to arriving at the idealistic objective are presented as alternatives on this page below. Clicking on any item or heading opens up a page which allows further elaboration, more precise definition, and more practical eventualities.