Is Dialogger still needed?

[rtizzy]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
You need Dialogger configured and installed

https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/projects/21#card-12730154

Describe the solution you'd like

I will need access to the current web server or the desired webserver, preferably via SSH.

I can setup something like cataclysmdda.com/dialogger or similar.

Describe alternatives you've considered
You can do this yourself. It would probably take longer to give me access than for you to install it.

Alternatively, their last commit seemed to indicate it can simply be run from Desktop now.

etodd/Lemma@063424b

Additional context
Add any other context (such as mock-ups, proof of concepts or screenshots) about the feature request here.

[mlangsdorf]

I'm in the process of moving most dialogue into JSON (and adding the necessary support code), see #25432.

Dialogger support would be a nice to have if it can spit out CDDA compatible JSON.

[kevingranade]

The goal is to have a publicly-accessable instance for our project to use (meaning a local instance isn't so nice), I took a stab at forking it here: https://github.com/CleverRaven/dialogger which gets served from here https://cleverraven.github.io/dialogger/
We need to specialize it a bit to get it working with DDA's particular dialect of dialog trees, and the much more invasive thing is it looks like it'd be very nice to bump the version of JointJS, which looks non-trivial.

[rtizzy]

@kevingranade

Thanks for the deets.

If you aren't aware , Hacktober fest is currently going on.

https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/

It would likely be a good idea to mark some issues or PRs as "newbie friendly" or similar as it could help bring in a lot of people to help with the project.

I'd say Web Developers are generally more common than C & C++ devs so you can likely find someone to handle the Dialogger conversion relatively easily.

[mlangsdorf]

So what's the next step?

[kevingranade]

This CleverRaven/dialogger#1 is the only mandatory issue, with that done we'd have a functional UI for editing dialog trees.