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

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi all,

On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:50:33 +0200
Anssi Hannula <anssi at mageia.org> wrote:

> 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?
> 

If this is the case, then I say that xonotic should be allowed to be updated.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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