====== Paradox ======

Welcome to my little corner of the wiki. I've been active on Dune on/off since around 2002, and a coder/wizard since ~2003. I've recently returned from a brief hiatus and have thrown myself into the thick of things helping keep this old boat out at sea for another ten or twenty years.

===== Current areas of work =====

Here are some things I've been working on since becoming active again. These aren't listed by order of priority :-)

^  Server Updates  ^^^
^ Project      ^ Description    ^ Status         ^
| Systemd Unit | Automatically restarting MUD process after crashes/reboots | Completed |
| Ubuntu 16.04 to 20.04 | Updating to an actively supported server OS, new packages | In progress, migration TBD |
| i686 to x86_64 | Switching to a 64 bit architecture for our server | In progress, migration TBD |
| SMTP | Outbound SMTP support to support (for wiki, game lib) | Planned |
| Cert management | Renewing TLS certificates and installing automatically | Planned |
| Monitoring | Prometheus, Grafana and node_exporter monitoring | TBD |
| Configuration management | Automating host provisioning w/ Ansible | TBD |
^           Gamedriver Updates        ^^^
^ Project      ^ Description    ^ Status         ^
| LDMUD 3.2.17 to 3.3.720 | The first driver update in many years, going from a 2010 release of the game driver to a 2011 release. Major feature addition: structs. | Completed |
| LDMUD 3.3.720 to 3.5.4 | A big update, moving from a 2011 release to a 2021 release. Major feature additions: 64bit support, SQLite, JSON, Python | Completed  |
| 3.5.4 updates for Ubuntu 20.04 | Backporting patches to support modern GCC, MySQL, OpenSSL | Completed |
| Secure TLS Port | Accessing DUNE with encryption ala HTTPS. | Completed |
| Python Integration | Implementing ldmud python integration w/ python-asyncio support | In Progress |
| LDMUD 3.5.4 to 3.6.4 | The most up-to-date LDMud release stream. Adds unicode support, bytes type | TBD |
^           Lib Updates        ^^^
| SQLite | Implementing in-game support for SQLite databases | Completed |
| AuthD | Reworking user authentication/password hashing for 2021 | In progress  |
| HTTP(s) client | Using Python aiohttp to expose async HTTP efun to LPC w/ support for HTTPS | Planned - proof of concept completed on dev server |
| Cert Refreshing | Process to periodically refresh LD's TLS certs from in-lib | Planned |
| 64 bit support | Double checking lib is compatible with new maximum int size | Planned |
| Error tracking | Piping runtime errors to a service like Bugsnag/Sentry | Planned |
| Monitoring | Exporting Prometheus metrics for MUD stats | TBD |
| telnet negotiation | In-lib negotiation for telnet options. Required for GMCP, related features | TBD |
| GMCP | Adding Generic Mud Communication Protocol support and lib hooks | TBD |
| Discord | Adding Discord integration to the game .... | TBD |
| Ixian Spire | Fixing the best area in the game and putting it back in of course | TBD |
^           Wiki Updates        ^^^
| DokuWiki 'Greebo' to 'Hogfather' | Updating wiki from 2018 release, refreshing theme. | Completed |
| HTTPS | Adding HTTPS support to the Wiki w/ Let's Encrypt | Completed |
| Game account authentication | Authenticating to the wiki with your Dune account/password | Planned, blocked on AuthD |
| Secure Port Documentation | Writing documentation for each MUD client about how to connect to the Dune TLS secured port | Planned |
| CSS refresh | The colours aren't quite right! | TBD |