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

[Anssi Hannula]

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