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    From Kinetix@21:2/124 to All on Monday, May 29, 2017 12:03:38
    Hi all,

    I've scanned through this message base to try and find answers but I didn't
    see anything really definitive on these, so I thought I'd ask:

    - There doesn't seem to be a central bug reporting place for Mystic. Is
    there anywhere dedicated to this, or just use this forum and hope that it
    gets tracked?

    - I see a mention on the website that Mystic was open source... is this still the case or was it un-open-sourced along the way?

    Thanks!

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A33 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Family Fun BBS (21:2/124)
  • From garycrunk@21:2/105 to Kinetix on Monday, May 29, 2017 12:11:35

    If you wanted to report a bug... The person that is working on Mystic is
    named g00g00 . You can send a message / bug report directly to him on
    fsxNet. Or you can send it via Paul (Avon)... (Sorry Paul, not trying to
    send more work your way)...

    The best I can suggest is to sent it to g00r00 as well as copy Avon (Paul)...

    Gary Crunk
    Another F-ing BBS
    anotherbbs.bbsindex.com

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A33 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: Another F-ing BBS (21:2/105)
  • From Richard Menedetter@21:1/104 to garycrunk on Monday, May 29, 2017 21:52:18
    Hi garycrunk!

    29 May 2017 12:11, from garycrunk -> Kinetix:

    I do not think it is Open Source anymore...

    If it ever was it could be forked from the last open release.
    Sadly I do not think it ever was open source.

    Do you have some links to an open source release of Mystic?

    CU, Ricsi

    --- GoldED+/LNX
    * Origin: Things are not as bad as they seem - They are worse! (21:1/104)
  • From garycrunk@21:2/105 to Richard Menedetter on Monday, May 29, 2017 13:47:06
    Sadly I do not think it ever was open source.
    Do you have some links to an open source release of Mystic?
    CU, Ricsi

    No , I do not have any links. However, I know that there IS a fork of
    Mystic, I just cannot remember the name of it. I know someone does know and
    is on fsxNet, they were talking about it just the other day...

    I thought about trying it, but I think it was only for Linux, and my R-Pi is not working right now...

    Anyway, Post a question here on FsxNet about the "Fork" of Mystic... That version is a fork from the last known Open Source of Mystic...

    Gary Crunk
    Another F-ing BBS
    anotherbbs.bbsindex.com

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A33 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: Another F-ing BBS (21:2/105)
  • From Kinetix@21:2/124 to garycrunk on Monday, May 29, 2017 15:37:29
    Hi there Gary,

    Thanks for your thoughts - I will likely get in touch with g00r00 (would he
    be offended if I called him g00g00? ;-) ) or post my Qs in this forum, so
    that perhaps bugs could be filed or noted where necessary.

    -Adam

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A33 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Family Fun BBS (21:2/124)
  • From Kinetix@21:2/124 to Richard Menedetter on Monday, May 29, 2017 15:39:00
    Sadly I do not think it ever was open source.

    I'm just going on what the mysticbbs.com/about.html page says about it... "In the fall of 2011, Mystic added a native Mac OSX version and went open source for several years."

    It was the "..for several years" bit that was interesting to me.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A33 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Family Fun BBS (21:2/124)
  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Kinetix on Tuesday, May 30, 2017 14:49:15
    On 05/29/17, Kinetix pondered and said...

    - There doesn't seem to be a central bug reporting place for Mystic. Is there anywhere dedicated to this, or just use this forum and hope that it gets tracked?

    This forum is a good one to use. The author James aka g00r00 does monitor it and respond on a fairly regular basis when he has time to spend on developing Mystic further. There's also an echoarea on Fidoenet called MYSTIC that he frequents but here is a good place to start :)

    I have been compiling feedback, feature suggestions and suspected bug reports when James is not active and feeding them back to him when he is. The recent updates in alpha 32 and 33 are a direct result of items picked up by the community and collective testing to confirm resolution of them :)

    - I see a mention on the website that Mystic was open source... is this still the case or was it un-open-sourced along the way?

    It was for a period of time around 1.10 At that stage code was published on SourceForge but then it went 'closed' again. If you check the Wiki there are some notes there written by James.

    Hope that helps :)

    Best, Paul

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A33 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: Agency BBS | telnet://agency.bbs.geek.nz (21:1/101)
  • From Richard Menedetter@21:1/104 to Kinetix on Tuesday, May 30, 2017 15:17:36
    Hi Kinetix!

    29 May 2017 15:39, from Kinetix -> Richard Menedetter:

    Sadly I do not think it ever was open source.
    I'm just going on what the mysticbbs.com/about.html page says about
    it... "In the fall of 2011, Mystic added a native Mac OSX version and
    went open source for several years."
    It was the "..for several years" bit that was interesting to me.

    You are right!
    There seems to be a GPL3 version available.

    https://github.com/fidosoft/mysticbbs

    https://sourceforge.net/u/laika1806/mysticbbs/ci/master/tree/

    ABOUT
    =====

    This archive contains the source code for Mystic BBS software.

    Mystic BBS is Copyright 1997-Current year by James Coyle.

    Mystic BBS is released under GPL Version 3 licensing which is
    included in the archive. An information header is prefixed on
    each source file that compiles to an executable.

    Additional information can be found on the Mystic BBS website at:

    http://www.mysticbbs.com

    CU, Ricsi

    --- GoldED+/LNX
    * Origin: A phaser is the universal communicator - Worf (21:1/104)
  • From g00r00@21:1/108 to Kinetix on Tuesday, May 30, 2017 16:11:38
    - There doesn't seem to be a central bug reporting place for Mystic. Is there anywhere dedicated to this, or just use this forum and hope that it gets tracked?

    There used to be, but people spammed it with duplicate and/or false bug reports, so eventually I took it down. Maybe its something that could be revisited.

    - I see a mention on the website that Mystic was open source... is this still the case or was it un-open-sourced along the way?

    Its closed sourced now. It was open for a couple of years but it didn't prove to be any benefit to the project, and only seemed to create additional headaches.

    That is not to say that it will never go open sourced again, just that it
    isn't at the moment.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A34 (Windows/64)
    * Origin: Sector 7 [Mystic BBS WHQ] (21:1/108)
  • From Richard Menedetter@21:1/104 to g00r00 on Wednesday, May 31, 2017 10:49:24
    Hi g00r00!

    30 May 2017 16:11, from g00r00 -> Kinetix:

    Its closed sourced now. It was open for a couple of years but it
    didn't prove to be any benefit to the project, and only seemed to
    create additional headaches.

    That is not to say that it will never go open sourced again, just that
    it isn't at the moment.

    Interesting news!
    Heads up from Austria!

    CU, Ricsi

    --- GoldED+/LNX
    * Origin: And you thought CHAOS meant rush-hour traffic! (21:1/104)