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OpenTTD GitHub
Contributing to OpenTTD - guidelines
OpenTTD Doxygen
Coding style
Compiling OpenTTD
Debugging
Add a setting
Add a squirrel function
Understanding the SaveGame handler
Bumping the savegame version
Doing an OpenTTD release
Manual of style
Format of langfiles
Using OpenTTD strings
List of special strings
Using the window system
Colour codes that exist in OpenTTD
Adding a text box
Understanding the widget focus system
GUI style guide
The OpenTTD TCP protocol
The OpenTTD UDP protocol
Debugging desyncs
Server Admin Port development
The console window
Console commands
Console variables
Using console scripting
Adding functions/commands to the console
Adding variables to the console
Console development history
Graphics and similar (NewGRF)
AI framework (NoAI)
GameScript framework (NoGO)
Social Integration
Map array (landscape grid)
Vehicles
Pathfinding
Train acceleration
Sound IDs
These things have to be done for each release:
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Prerelease
- backport all the fixes
- run "make regression"
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update changelog.txt
- sort order: Feature, Codechange, Fix then descending revision number
- format: - (Feature|Codechange|Fix): ([<subsection (like OSX)>])? <message> ([FS#XXX])? (rXXXXX)
- merge items that are solving a single goal
- Make a Pull Request for the website announcing the new version. Add to that the snippets that need to go to our socials.
Release
- Create Tag via GitHub.
Post release
- Wait for GitHub Actions to finish the build.
- Tag our website to make the announcement live.
- Make a tt-forums announcement.
- Make a tweet @openttdnews.
- Make a reddit post via OpenTTDNews account.
- Post in announcements on Discord (if you cannot, poke an admin or TrueBrain).
- Post a news message on Steam. Don't forget an unique image.
- Update the IRC topic.
- forwardport/merge the changes made in the prerelease
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for non-RC releases:
- Poke package maintainers on IRC: blathijs (debian), heffer (fedora).
- Ask TrueBrain to bring the release live on Steam (it already is in the "testing" branch, but needs to go to the "default" branch).
- Poke orudge to update Microsoft Store.
After creating a branch for a new version
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Apply changes similar to PR#7319 (a67ee025294278f9113a1c8bcb5ee91d9e174f69)
- Update CMakeLists.txt
- Add a new (empty) AI compatibility script in bin/ai/
- Add the new version to CheckAPIVersion in src/ai/ai_info.cpp + src/game/game_info.cpp
- Add the new version to src/script/api/ai_changelog.hpp + src/script/api/game_changelog.hpp
- Update the version of regression in bin/ai/regression/regression_info.nut
- Add a note to src/saveload/saveload.h about which savegame version is used in the branch.
- Backport changelog to master branch