Posted to news.announce.newgroups by David J. Grabiner.


                     REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)
          unmoderated group rec.games.roguelike.development

This is a formal Request for Discussion (RFD) for the creation of a
world-wide unmoderated Usenet newsgroup
rec.games.roguelike.development.  This is not a Call for Votes (CFV);
you cannot vote at this time.  Procedural details are below.

Newsgroup line:
rec.games.roguelike.development	Design and programming of Roguelike games.

RATIONALE: rec.games.roguelike.development

The Roguelike games often use ideas, or even code, from each
other.  With the large number of Roguelike games and variants in
existence and in development, there are occasional discussions
about programming problems such as dungeon-generation algorithms
which are of interest to designers of several games.  However,
since most of the discussion in the rec.games.roguelike.* groups
deals with playing the individual games, people working on one
game usually don't read all of the groups and will not see the
ideas being developed for other games.

CHARTER: rec.games.roguelike.development

This group if for discussion of programming and design issues for
the Roguelike game family, including both development of new
games and modifications of existing games.  Crossposting to the
group dealing with an existing game is acceptable, but
posts which are only relevant to the development of a single game
and not of general interest should be discussed in that game's
group only.  Binaries (other than PGP signatures) and commercial
advertisements are not acceptable in this group.

END CHARTER.

PROCEDURE:

This is a request for discussion, not a call for votes.  In this phase
of the process, any potential problems with the proposed newsgroups
should be raised and resolved.  The discussion period will continue
for a minimum of 21 days (starting from when the first RFD for this
proposal is posted to news.announce.newgroups), after which a Call For
Votes (CFV) may be posted by a neutral vote taker if the discussion
warrants it.  Please do not attempt to vote until this happens.

All discussion of this proposal should be posted to news.groups.

This RFD attempts to comply fully with the Usenet newsgroup creation
guidelines outlined in "How to Create a New Usenet Newsgroup" and "How
to Format and Submit a New Group Proposal".  Please refer to these
documents (available in news.announce.newgroups) if you have any
questions about the process.

DISTRIBUTION:

This RFD will be posted to the following newsgroups:

news.announce.newgroups,
news.groups,
alt.games.omega,
rec.games.roguelike.adom,
rec.games.roguelike.angband,
rec.games.roguelike.misc,
rec.games.roguelike.moria,
rec.games.roguelike.nethack,
rec.games.roguelike.rogue.

Proponent: David Grabiner <grabiner@math.lsa.umich.edu>
Proponent: Matt Chatterley <neddy@itl.net>
Proponent: Sami Hangaslammi <shang@st.jyu.fi>