Hi all, On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:50:33 +0200 Anssi Hannula <an...@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 <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? > > 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 -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ First stop for Perl beginners - http://perl-begin.org/ Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. — http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mohandas_Gandhi (Disputed) Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .