[Mageia-dev] [Freeze] please let in xonotic

Wed Mar 14 08:26:17 CET 2012

Op woensdag 14 maart 2012 01:16:23 schreef Juan Luis Baptiste:
+> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 7:21 AM, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
+> > Le samedi 10 mars 2012 à 10:26 +0100, Thierry Vignaud a écrit :
+> >> Hi
+> >> 
+> >> please let in xonotic-0.6.0
+> >> It's just a game that impacts nothing else.
+> > 
+> > Niet.
+> > 
+> > That's bugfix or security fixes.
+> 
+> Well I vote to be updated, why ? global game servers are currently
+> running 0.6.0, and by personal experience over several years (omg how
+> much time wasted on this) these FPS games need to have the same
+> client/server version, in some cases different versions won't work at
+> all (ie. Urban Terror 3.7 -> 4.0 -> 4.1, Warsow 0.5 -> 0.8 etc).
+> 
+> I just did the test of running a 0.5.0 client on a 0.6.0 server and it
+> works, but a big and annoying yellow announce floats across the screen
+> remaining you that a new version is available. I also talked with one
+> dev over IRC and he told me that there could be issues when running
+> different client/server versions.
+> 
+> So just to be on the safe side this new version should be pushed. If
+> not then probably we will need to do it later as an update if any
+> problems arise. I commit my self to test the new version, I know very
+> well how this game works.
+
+IINM we have some kind of exception regarding games for their client/server 
+relation regarding updates vs backports? if so, then perhaps we could have the 
+same policy wrt updates to version freeze?
+