Present situation:

I would like to discuss the present situation in Hedgewars developement. Situation when main developers don't upload every update into SVN because they are making a big surprise for all of us.

I think that this behaviour not quite fair with other users and developers. I don't care about staying up to date that much, but it's nice, after all. I know many of Hedgewars developers have very big ego at the moment, they are creating probably the best open-source worms clone. Ok, I agree with that. I also wonder, if it isn't against the whole open-source philosophy, because you just don't want to share with other people. You are creating barriers not allowing everyone to get the latest version of Hedgewars source code. What about other developers, minor ones, translators, and users who want to participate in Hedgewars developement? I just hope that you are uploading things that need to be translated into SVN without delay. And about users who wants to, let's say, make a new theme or map. He/She may be working on theme/map, put it on forums and Tiyuri will say something like "sorry, we already have heaven theme", whole work wasted.

I want to ask everyone about a few things.

@Tiyuri, maybe palewolf, and other Hedgewars graphics designers(if there are any)

Guys, do you really think that your work is so special not to allow everyone to see it? You think that, let's say, underwater theme that is about to appear in 0.9.7 is somekind of masterpiece in open-source games graphics? All of you are doing really great job, I agree, it's very nice, but is it so special to have limited access?

@unC0Rr

I had no problems while working with unC0Rr, and I think I was surprised when I heard about all that secret stuff not included in SVN. It's hard for me to believe that it was unC0Rr's idea not to upload every change into SVN.

@Hedgewars users, and minor Hedgewars developers(translators etc.)

Please participate this in discussion, I think it's quite important topic. If they are making such a big secret before 0.9.7 what will happen after 0.9.7 is released? Maybe we will see no updates into SVN repository until 0.9.8 is released? And before 1.0? I'm even afraid to think about it.

About Hedgewars future:

To tell the truth I am afraid about Hedgewars future. First of all because of this secret developement, secondary because of iPhone version that is about to be created. When I talked with Tiyuri on forums the other day, he said that Hedgewars will be free and open for iPhone owners who unlocked their iPhones. Others will need to pay like 1 pound for the game, because they need to pay for putting Hedgewars on iStore(or something like that, I am not familiar with Apple stuff). Ok, let's say you will need to pay like 10 pounds a month for a place on iStore, and each month 100-200 people will buy Hedgewars. It's 90-190 pounds profit, each month. Will you share it among everyone who participated into Hedgewars developement? I mean, map makers, translators, and so on?

Personally I think that if Apple wants cash for a place on iStore, ignore them, go somewhere else. We shouldn't be interested in places that wants cash for promoting Hedgewars, just my opinion.

I would like as many Hedgewars users as possible to discuss this topic, please comment and tell what do you think. Thank you all.

I would like to say sorry to everyone who felt hurt by what I said. It wasn't my intention.