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

Thu Mar 15 15:50:33 CET 2012

14.03.2012 09:26, Maarten Vanraes kirjoitti:
+> 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?
+
+Yes, we do. Version policy (i.e. no-new-versions-in-updates policy) has
+an exception for "Software that is version-bound to an online service
+(games, virus scanners?) and will only work with the latest version."
+
+This doesn't 100% fit xonotic, though, as online play doesn't *require*
+a specific version. However, as it does impede the online playing
+experience and (AFAIU) online-play is a significant part of xonotic, I'd
+side on the 'update' verdict here.
+
+What do other people think regarding this aspect?
+
+-- 
+Anssi Hannula
+