% Frequently asked questions about the PennMUSH Server, 1.8.7
PennMUSH has been around for a long time. The above-mentioned 1.50p10 (1.5.0p10) release was made in 1995, and Penn wasn't new then.
PennMUSH 1.50pl10 was the last patchlevel of PennMUSH developed by Amberyl. Amberyl handed over the maintenance, development, and support of PennMUSH to Javelin/Paul (Alan Schwartz) after 1.50pl10.
The first two post-pl10 releases were termed the "dune-1" and "dune-2" releases (in honor of DuneMUSH, where Alan did most of his development work). Amberyl and Javelin agreed that it was silly to start a whole new numbering scheme, so the next patchlevel released was pl11.
Javelin, along with the other two PennMUSH developers, T. Alexander Popiel and Ralph Melton, made so many internal changes that it was time for a new numbering scheme, and PennMUSH was advanced to 1.6.x.
Ralph Melton has since retired, and Thorvald Natvig took his place on the devteam. He rewrote the command parser, and PennMUSH was advanced to 1.7.0. Talek and Thorvald have both since retired, and many other people have submitted code, both as official developers or community contributors over the years.
In July 2006, Raevnos took over from Javelin as maintainer. Currently, the active development team is Raevnos, Walker, Mike, Intrevis, and Rince. The current version is 1.8.7.
There are several options:
- Ask on
M*U*S*H, a game where the PennMUSH developers and many other talented folk hang out. mush.pennmush.org 4201 - File an issue with the devs (See the link below for the github bug tracker)
Visit the issue tracker.
Include specific information: PennMUSH version, OS, how to reproduce the problem, what local changes you've made to the source. If you know what's causing the bug, or how to fix it, or if you have a patch for the bug, send it along. If you don't, and the bug caused a crash with a core dump, you can send along a stack trace.
Visit the issue tracker.
No promises, but we try to get back to you about the feasibility of suggestions quickly, and implement them as we can. Features that come with a patch implementing them tend to get accepted faster than those that don't unless it's a trivial addition.
Read Javelin's God for PennMUSH Gods, loads of info about setting up a MUSH, hacking source code, daily maintenance, and many tips from other Gods! It's a bit dated in some respects but still very useful.
The community portal also has guides and reference material for working with mush hardcode that are slightly less out of date.
The source code has doxygen documentation that can be browsed.
New releases of the PennMUSH code are announced on M*U*S*H
(mush.pennmush.org 4201).
Actually, it does. Pueblo is built around an HTML browser. In HTML,
multiple whitespace is ignored and treated as a single space. This is
correct behavior. In HTML, if you really want spaces to count as
spaces, you must put your text in <PRE>..</PRE> blocks,
e.g. tagwrap(PRE,this %t has %t tabs %t and %b%b spaces).
PennMUSH understands the following signals, and performs the listed action:
Name Number Description
HUP 1 Performs a silent @readcache
USR1 16 Performs an @shutdown/reboot
USR2 17 Performs an @dump
INT 2 Performs an @shutdown
TERM 15 Performs an @shutdown/panic