Op woensdag 14 maart 2012 01:16:23 schreef Juan Luis Baptiste: > On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 7:21 AM, Michael Scherer <m...@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?