Re: The status of gnubg?

[Philippe Michel]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 12:45:10AM +0000, Aaron Tikuisis wrote:

> I'd even be happy to contribute, even if only in a small way. For 
> example, I'm reading through the code and perhaps as I understand 
> things I could add comments (e.g., I'd like to figure out what the 
> inputs I_BACKBONE and I_TIMING are).

Most of the inputs are described in this paper :
https://bkgm.com/articles/Berliner/BKG-AProgramThatPlaysBackgammon/

In some cases they were rewritten in a more efficient way in gnubg and a 
more easily understandable (although not better commented) 
implementation might be found in : 
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/gnubg/gnubg-nn/gnubg/eval.c?view=markup

> I also have noticed some bugs and 
> some ideas for improvements. I haven't written these down but I can if 
> there's a chance they'll be fixed. (Potentially I could contribute in 
> bigger ways, but I'd like to get to understand it better and know 
> whether people are working on gnubg first.)

Bugs may be fixed or not, it depends on how critical / easy to reproduce 
/ easy to fix they are, but one thing is certain : if you don't report 
them, their probability of getting fixed degrades considerably.