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 ====== Review Process Protocols ====== ====== Review Process Protocols ======
  
-Board review is intended both to help designers produce better boards and to maintain a high level of quality for live maps on WarGear. However, when it comes down to it, board review is a matter of judgment. This page is meant to help all parties, both reviewers and board designers, by providing a transparent set of guidelines that seek to better define what is and is not expected of a board in order to meet WarGear standards. Also see the WarGear help page concerning the [[http://www.wargear.net/help/display/Board%20Review|Review Process]].+Board review is intended both to help designers produce better boards and to maintain a high level of quality for live boards on WarGear. However, when it comes down to it, board review is a matter of judgment. This page is meant to help all parties, both reviewers and board designers, by providing a transparent set of guidelines that seek to better define what is and is not expected of a board in order to meet WarGear standards. See more detail on the [[designer_workshop:review_board_criteria:Talk|Review Process Protocols Talk Page]].
  
 ===== Mission ===== ===== Mission =====
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 ===== Standard Criteria and Guidelines ===== ===== Standard Criteria and Guidelines =====
  
-WarGear Standards use the IEEE style guide for standards.  "Shall" is used to define a requirement that if not satisfied will prevent the board from going live.   "Should" is used to suggest a best practice, but does not denote an automatic disqualification.  See the [[designer_workshop:review_board_criteria:Talk|Talk Page]] for more details.+WarGear Standards use the IEEE style guide for standards.  "Shall" is used to define a requirement that if not satisfied will prevent the board from going live.   "Should" is used to suggest a best practice, but does not denote an automatic disqualification.  See the [[designer_workshop:review_board_criteria:Talk|Review Process Protocols Talk Page]] for more details.
  
 ==== General Guidelines ====  ==== General Guidelines ==== 
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 ==== Graphics ==== ==== Graphics ====
-  * No ambiguous boundaries or continents.  +  * Boards must not have any ambiguous boundaries or continents.  
     * Borders and Continents should be clear from the board image.     * Borders and Continents should be clear from the board image.
     * Continents should have a mini-map, or continent values on the map itself, or a simple mnemonic, or some other easy way to find or remember the members and value of all continents without having to go back to the map description or wiki page.      * Continents should have a mini-map, or continent values on the map itself, or a simple mnemonic, or some other easy way to find or remember the members and value of all continents without having to go back to the map description or wiki page. 
   * Boards should be dual layer.   * Boards should be dual layer.
     * Designers are welcome to use single layer and circle mode for personal use, development, and/or proof of concept.     * Designers are welcome to use single layer and circle mode for personal use, development, and/or proof of concept.
-  * Single Layer boards shall not have stray pixels, "pixel noise", around the edges of territories.+  * Single Layer boards should not have stray pixels, "pixel noise", around the edges of territories.
   * Single Layer boards should avoid blank space and large uniform fields of color.   * Single Layer boards should avoid blank space and large uniform fields of color.
   * Boards should have a set of custom card images.   * Boards should have a set of custom card images.
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