200+, 263-... what does it mean?

The numbers themselves aren't that great. If you add them together, you get -63. But what do these numbers mean exactly when I say that I "made a 200+, 263- commit" to Xsera? Quite literally, it means that I added 200 lines of code and removed 263. While this is a good sized commit, it's nothing worth bragging about, exactly. The numbers don't mean that much - I could write 1000 meaningless lines of code, and it would be awesome to say that I committed 1000+, but that's not progress for the project.

What you'll find far more interesting is what appeared in the new 200 lines of code, and what disappeared in the 263. Well, I totally recreated Xsera's colour system (yeah, Alistair's got me using 'colour' instead of 'color'). What does this mean? Nothing absolutely groundbreaking, but it does mean that everything will eventually look a lot more Ares-like, colour-wise.

Welcome to my Xsera Blog!

Hello Everybody,

My name is Adam Hintz and I am one of a small handful of lead developers for Xsera, the port of Ambrosia Software and Nathan Lamont's Ares. I've established this blog to allow anybody following the blog to more easily track its progress - because reading from our mailing list or our source repository's updates is not the easiest thing to do. I'll try to break down what's going on in Xsera, what this means for the user, and what may be happening in the future.

Currently, I'm too tired to write much more, so I'll redirect you to our new Xsera homepage for more information.