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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 October of 2019, I am supporting one production instance of BOARD18. This instance is called dev2.board18.org.

Analysis of Existing Game Boxes

As of October of 2018 there are 76 active game boxes on dev2.board18.org. Some of these game boxes are used quite a lot and some are seldom used at all. In addition the dev2.board18.org database contains 35 disabled game boxes that can no longer be used to start new games.

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 one or two of new instances of BOARD18. Further analysis will be needed to decide if a second instance is needed. The first will be called new1.board18.org and it may contain all of the current active game boxes. The second, if it is needed, will be called new2.board18.org and it will contain any game boxes omitted from new1.board18.org.

Timeline

I intend to begin work on these new instances starting in December. The current production instance, dev2, will remain the production instance until 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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+__NOTOC__
 <span style="color: Green">NOTE: The [[BOARD18 Development History]] has been moved to a separate set of pages.</span>
-<span style="color: Red">'''NOTE: This page is quite out of date. It will be updated after version 2.0.0 goes live.'''</span>
+<span style="color: Green">With the release of version 2.4.3 on December 5, 2016, BOARD18 became a mature product.</span><br>
-== Short Term==
+At that point the BOARD18 project shifted to a maintenance mode, though some minor enhancements were done over the next years.<br>
-===March 2016===
+Also, the design document has been extensively updated and a number of [[Dream Spreadsheets]] have been written.<br><br>
-I am almost done with Phase 4 of [http://bugs.board18.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27 Issue 27] which
+As of November, 2018, release 2.5.6 is the the production status release of BOARD18.
-is associated with the new board18Boxes.php page.
-At the same time Jeff B. is completing his work on
+==Support Plans for BOARD18 Instances==
-[http://bugs.board18.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27 Issue 1] -
+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.
-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.
-And 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.
+===The Current Situation===
+Currently, in October of 2019, I am supporting one production instance of BOARD18. This instance is called dev2.board18.org.
-More information on these issues is available by clicking on the issue numbers.
+===Analysis of Existing Game Boxes===
+As of October of 2018 there are 76 active game boxes on dev2.board18.org. Some of these game boxes are used quite a lot and some are seldom used at all. In addition the dev2.board18.org database contains 35 disabled game boxes that can no longer be used to start new games.
-== Mid Term==
+===Future Plans===
-===Third Quarter 2016===
+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 one or two of new instances of BOARD18. Further analysis will be needed to decide if a second instance is needed.
-I will likely address some of the following enhancement requests as well as other enhancements to be determined:
+The first will be called new1.board18.org and it may contain all of the current active game boxes. The second, if it is needed, will be called new2.board18.org and it will contain any game boxes omitted from new1.board18.org.
-* [http://bugs.board18.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41 Issue 41] - Create a new game from a snapshot.
+===Timeline===
-* [http://bugs.board18.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30 Issue 30] - Investigate Google open API for authentication.
+I intend to begin work on these new instances starting in December. The current production instance, dev2, will remain the production instance until 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.
-* 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]].