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NOTE: The BOARD18 Development History has been moved to a separate set of pages.

With the release of version 2.4.3 on December 5, 2016, BOARD18 became a mature product.
At that point the BOARD18 project shifted to a maintenance mode, though some minor enhancements were done over the next years.
Also, the design document has been extensively updated and a number of Dream Spreadsheets have been written.

As of November, 2018, release 2.5.6 is the the production status release of BOARD18.

Support Plans for BOARD18 Instances

Anyone with access to a web server can create an instance of BOARD18. But here I will only discuss my plans for the BOARD18 instances that I maintain at board18.org.

The Current Situation

Currently, in November of 2018, I am supporting one production instance of BOARD18. This instance is called dev2.board18.org. There is also a deprecated instance of BOARD18 called prod1.board18.org which I am going to totally delete before the end of November.

Analysis of Existing Game Boxes

As of mid November of 2018 there are 55 game boxes on dev2.board18.org. Interestingly, they split about 50-50 between games set the USA and games set elsewhere. I intend to use this split to allocate game boxes between two new instances of BOARD18.

Future Plans

The dev2.board18.org instance is rather old and contains a lot of defunct information in its database. Thus, my plan is to replace it with a couple of new instances of BOARD18. The first will be called new1.board18.org and it will contain all of the game boxes for games set in the United States. The second will be called new2.board18.org and it will contain all of the game boxes for games not set in the United States. The advantage of this arrangement will be that each of the two instances will have a smaller footprint. And thus it should be more responsive. The disadvantage, of course, will be that players will need to create logins on two different BOARD18 instances.

Timeline

I intend to begin work on these two new instances starting in December. The current production instance, dev2, will remain the production instance until both of the new instances are up and running. The current production instance, dev2, will be deprecated at that time. No new games will be startable on the dev2.board18.org instance after it is deprecated. But all existing games will continue to function. After all games on dev2.board18.org have completed that instance will be removed.

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 <span style="color: Green">NOTE: The [[BOARD18 Development History]] has been moved to a separate set of pages.</span>
-== Short Term==
-=== December, 2015 ===
-In December I will implement version 1.4.0 of BOARD18 which will contain some database changes and a
-common "About Board18" generator which will later be included in a main menu upgrade.
-== Mid Term==
+<span style="color: Green">With the release of version 2.4.3 on December 5, 2016, BOARD18 became a mature product.</span><br>
-===January 2016===
+At that point the BOARD18 project shifted to a maintenance mode, though some minor enhancements were done over the next years.<br>
-In January I will be working on Phase 4 of [http://bugs.board18.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27 Issue 27] which
+Also, the design document has been extensively updated and a number of [[Dream Spreadsheets]] have been written.<br><br>
-is associated with the new board18Boxes.php page.
+As of November, 2018, release 2.5.6 is the the production status release of BOARD18.
-I am also updating board18Misc.php to be able to add game links [http://bugs.board18.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20 Issue 20] and change the game status so that it can be remove from the Main Menu
+==Support Plans for BOARD18 Instances==
-I will also devote some time to enhancing the game box development environment.
+Anyone with access to a web server can create an instance of BOARD18. But here I will only discuss my plans for the BOARD18 instances that I maintain at board18.org.
-In January Jeff B. will be completing his work on
+===The Current Situation===
-[http://bugs.board18.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27 Issue 1] -
+Currently, in November of 2018, I am supporting one production instance of BOARD18. This instance is called dev2.board18.org. There is also a deprecated instance of BOARD18 called prod1.board18.org which I am going to totally delete before the end of November.
-Request for an "undo" capability, and on removing the contextMenu js lib [http://bugs.board18.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47 Issue 47] - Rewrite JS to remove contextMenu lib.
-At the same time he will also be making some improvements to the main menu [http://bugs.board18.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20 Issue 20] and [http://bugs.board18.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50 Issue 50] - Reorganize and add helpful links (game, gamebox, and system). Include with the Main menu improvement will be additional keyboard shortcuts.
+===Analysis of Existing Game Boxes===
+As of mid November of 2018 there are 55 game boxes on dev2.board18.org. Interestingly, they split about 50-50 between games set the USA and games set elsewhere. I intend to use this split to allocate game boxes between two new instances of BOARD18.
+===Future Plans===
+The dev2.board18.org instance is rather old and contains a lot of defunct information in its database. Thus, my plan is to replace it with a couple of new instances of BOARD18.
+The first will be called new1.board18.org and it will contain all of the game boxes for games set in the United States. The second will be called new2.board18.org and it will contain all of the game boxes for games not set in the United States. The advantage of this arrangement will be that each of the two instances will have a smaller footprint. And thus it should be more responsive. The disadvantage, of course, will be that players will need to create logins on two different BOARD18 instances.
-More information on these issues is available by clicking on the issue number.
+===Timeline===
+I intend to begin work on these two new instances starting in December. The current production instance, dev2, will remain the production instance until both of the new instances are up and running. The current production instance, dev2, will be deprecated at that time. No new games will be startable on the dev2.board18.org instance after it is deprecated. But all existing games will continue to function. After all  games on dev2.board18.org have completed that instance will be removed.
-===Late First Quarter 2016===
-I will likely address some of the following enhancement requests as well as other enhancements to be determined:
-* [http://bugs.board18.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41 Issue 41] - Create a new game from a snapshot.
-* [http://bugs.board18.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30 Issue 30] - Investigate Google open API for authentication.
-* A better help function [hopefully].
-More information on these issues is available by clicking on the issue number.
-== Long Term==
-===The Rest Of The Year===
-* [http://bugs.board18.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35 Issue 35] - Board18 automatically handling the Google log and sheet creation process.
-* [[Long_Term_Ergonomic_Proposal |Other enhancements]].