We are preparing to test a rather large upgrade to Weewar on test.weewar.com. While this addresses some smallish bugs the major changes are mostly invisible. This new version runs on a number of servers and will allow us to add more on short notice. This aims to do away with any slow downs and problems with capacity - once and for all.

We are looking to identify any bugs or problems this architecture change might have introduced. Since we are running this on a new host feedback on general performance / lag / etc is also very important.

This is running from a fresh database so if you'd like to participate request your invite on the test system and we'll send you one as soon as the test starts (hopefully early next week). 

You will not be able to upgrade your account on the test system but we will select random players to be upgraded to pro for the duration of the test.

Many thanks for your help!


 

So that's what you guys have been up to lately. 

how long does the invite system take now?

We'll send the invites at some point next week. There is still a few glitches on test we want to address first (no point in asking you guys to chase after know bugs).

affirmative!

So this is the move over to a horizontal architecture?

it is indeed. And it is much needed. Running at 80% most of the time is no good.  Meet a brand new "worker": http://testbattle1.weewar.com/

tx for clearing this up.  i just requested an invite.  can't wait!

So we're supposed to request an invite on testbattle1.weewar.com and not test.weewar.com? I tried the latter first and got some error (i forgot to jot it down) and then tried the former and all went well. I hope my invite comes soon =)

Hrm... I only signed up at test.* not testbattle1.*.  Should I do the latter one, too?

Please use only test.weewar.com (though testbattle should work fine). test.weewar.com will distribute any incoming requests between a number of servers, one of which is testbattle....

Woo hoo!! All signed up and raring to go

hmm, i tried requesting an invite on the test server, but didn't receive and email.

anyone else having problems?

 

Don't think they've sent it out yet

ah, that would make since - just wasn't sure as it was going into the void heh heh

We are missing one last bit before we can start the test - the mail facility is not set up yet. So test.weewar.com can actually not sent out emails. We will sort it asap!

And we are off. Invites should be with you by now. Happy testing!

Woo hoo! I got mine!

Will try and break it later
 

I'm playing the following game on the test server but can't take my turn: http://test.weewar.com/game/16  I'm logged in as 'johnluxford' (red player) and clicking my pieces gives me the notice "Another player is currently playing. The page will update automatically when the current player is done."  Anyone else experiencing this?

The testserver has been updated with the latest version. We'll be deleting the games that showed players twice.

For those of you who were unable to play in a game: give it another try.

We're still working on the bug concerns the online / offline status of players.

Hey bert.  How's life?  Still at the same address?  Kids finished school and got married, huh?  Congrats on the five new grandkids that came on the scene since we last heard from you.

</joking> 
 

hhahahaha Terrible....

looks like they fixed it sometime today, i was able to make my play now

 

I noticed a change. if its intentional or not, who knows.
If I have only one game in which it is my turn and I am playing that turn, Usually the triangle does not blink right? Cause on the test server it blinks, even when no game other than the one you are currently seeing needs attention.

So is that a bug or an intended change. I would see no reason To have changed that however....
 

I'll check on that. Thanks.

 

In case you care about Opera: The yellow notifier triangle never shows up in Opera.

As well, I tried to join an open game, but it said:

"You can not join any more games. Please finish a game first."

So have you changed how the HQ limits work?  Not just new games, but any joins at all?

pistos, that hq limit has worked like that since the last patch on the main server.  the only way to have more than 10 games is to get invited.

Ah.  I see. 

Just got my invite - thanks!

Noticed an interesting thing though... both times I have joined a game, I entered "I'm in" into the game chat window. It first shows that a guest entered "I'm in" and then shows that I entered "I'm in". Looks like two issue - character escaping and some kind of ghosting.
 

got a nice error when trying to join a new game here: http://testbattle2.weewar.com/game/77/join/I7w0jOs6TR3c

An Error Occurred:

/join.xhtml: Error reading 'boardLink' on type com.weewar.web.jsfbeans.StartGameJSFBean

+- Stack Trace

+- Component Tree

+- Scoped Variables

Nov 24, 2007 12:26:23 AM - Generated by Facelets

i noticed there was a lot of ghosting, and there's been a few times where i've spent more than half an hoiur trying to log in, but all it says is 'session ended' or something

Buglist:

- Yellow triangle pops up even if one is currently playing the only game that needs attention

- Yellow triangle is not shown if one is looking at a profile.

- "Ghosting": For some players community chat messages get posted twice. Once with their normal (logged-in) account and once as "Guest xyz".

- http://testbattle2.weewar.com/game/77/join/I7w0jOs6TR3c shows an error

- Email notification links do not work. (Can anyone confirm this?)

- Online status of players is broken. The "Players currently online" shows a constant value of 2.

- People get logged out. Weewar sometimes says "Session expired"

- Games that need attention are not shown on top of the headquarter list.

Anything I missed?

Please give more information on which browser you are using, and what happend before an error was encountered. It helps a lot to find it. If you get logged out, please note on which servers you have been playing (testbattle1/testbattle2) and if you have switched between the two. The more detailed you describe your actions the more it helps.

Thank you all for helping to make Weewar better. We appreciate this very much.

I also think that some users are shown to be online wrongly. For example, my HQ tells me that everyone in all my games (7) is online. Thats pretty suspicious considering that nobody takes his turn. Its been this way for hours, and I think it was like that yesterday as well. Before that I did not pay attention to it yet.

Right. There has been no bugfix since the end of last week. What you mention will be fixed with one of the next updates.

The test server has been updated. The following things have been adressed:

- Yellow triangle pops up even if one is currently playing the only game that needs attention

- Yellow triangle is not shown if one is looking at a profile.

- http://testbattle2.weewar.com/game/77/join/I7w0jOs6TR3c shows an error

- Email notification links do not work. (Can anyone confirm this?)

- Online status of players is broken. The "Players currently online" shows a constant value of 2.

- Games that need attention are not shown on top of the headquarter list.

bert, got one email notice today and the link worked perfectly.

(using FF 2.0.0.9, opened link from Gmail)
 

devs: nice touch to change the sender of the emails we are getting from weewar.

yeah, i had initially had issue with email notification links and gmail, they now work perfectly for me too.

We will shut down the testserver soon. If you can, please try to find a way to reproduce the logout issue. Make sure not to use any greasemonkey script while doing so.

test is now down. We have not received any further reports and will be going live with this soon. Stay tuned