I think best would be to copy Novapolis WIKI to Citymania, so it is fully part of the project.

Another think is whether someone will contribute as community did not post much thinks to that WIKI for a long time.

No, I had no interface. Writing some would take me several hours, while configuring things via database took one hour per year, as it was no frequent activity. So it did not make much sense to waste time for some tool. And second I had no other people to do that, so it was useless to write something only for me. But if you plan to have some moderetators to configure games, sure, then it can come in handy.

Still, it does not relate to test mode this new servers are in. It almost looks like Novapolis code was some piece of unstable garbage, which is completely untrue as can judge anyone who played on Novapolis in last year.

IF you have trouble understanding server configuration, you could ask. And it uses only openttd config file and database, where it is tied with indexes. It's not that hard, when I started working with it, it took me maybe one hour to understand it.

Anyway, when I gave you Novapolis code, you have recived it with whole configuration and it was plug and play. Novapolis had no crash for at least 5 last months. I can understand the urge to reprogram it, it's quite common thing for programmers, but I don't understand why you have not chosen to start it as it is and do changes after that by smaller steps.

Now you kill yourself with weeks of work before you remove TEST mode while you were given very stable aplication. And changing server from 3h to 2h is changing one setting, but reprogramming it is hours of work divided between weeks of freetime. In the end you'll end like me. Too much coding and very few players on servers. I can tell you from my experience, it's not very rewarding.

You might not like it, but that does not make it unusable and it's quite straighforward.

I don't quite understand, why servers are called TEST, when you've got everything to run them as Novapolis. Well, it's your way, but it would make more sense to use it as it is and add changes while running in normal mode, than to plan dozen of changes and run everything in TEST mode. That way in one man you will run TEST mode for year, considering even web is being redone completely.

I think it would be nice to ship source diff against release with zip. I'd rather patch diff against source than download whole sources, especially since the source zip does not have bind to svn/git/whatever.