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

[Maarten Vanraes]

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?