On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 10:33 PM, Robert Ancell <[email protected]> wrote: > On 16 October 2012 23:01, Allan Day <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I wonder: are you looking for maintainers for any of these games, or >> are you going to take charge of all of them? Also, are any of these >> deemed to be "core" right now? > > We're currently discussing the maintainership of them at the moment: > https://mail.gnome.org/archives/games-list/2012-October/msg00001.html > Short answer, I think if anyone was looking to maintain a project > (e.g. someone who is learning GNOME) then they'd be very welcome.
As I wrote in the linked mail I would like to keep maintaining swell-foop and five-or-more. For the rest my plan was to keep doing the regular releases, build fixes, porting, etc to keep the games alive. But I would love to see someone take over maintainership and active development of the individual games. I will also gladly "mentor" anyone interested in gradually taking over if there is need for that. > Regarding which ones are core, I was waiting for you to ask that :) > > Well, it really depends on what we want for the default install. I > agree we want a smaller set of higher quality games. > > This is the current Ubuntu software center ratings (number of stars > and number of ratings): > > gnome-tetravex 5 (5) > lightsoff 5 (2) > gnome-robots 5 (1) > gnome-mahjongg 4 (21) > aisleriot 4 (10) > gnome-chess 4 (6) > swell-foop 4 (1) > gnome-sudoku 3.5 (5) > gnome-klotski 3.5 (3) > four-in-a-row 3 (2) > gnome-mines 3 (2) > gnome-nibbles 2.5 (4) > iagno 2 (2) > quadrapassel 1.5 (6) > five-or-more 1.5 (5) > tali 0 (0) > > Note I've included aisleriot which was split out of GNOME games earlier. > > The numbers are too small to draw too much from this but this > indicates to me that people like tetravex, lightsoff, mahjongg, > aisleriot, chess, sudoku. In Ubuntu we ship aisleriot, mahjongg, mines > and sudoku. > > In terms of the games that are in the best code state and thus easiest > to improve the design of we should look at tetravex, lightsoff, > mahjongg, chess, swell-foop, mines, iagno, quadrapassel. Sudoku and > five-or-more are in progress being updated. > > So, I think we should decide based on the following: > - A range of games that cover easy games that children can play to > difficult puzzles suitable for adults. > - Games that are modern and fun > - A small enough set that can be effectively maintained and improved > to keep standard high > - A small enough set that can be effectively browsed from the shell > > Thoughts? Tali and four-in-a-row are so dull that smoketesting them before releases is almost painful. Robots and klotski looks/feels really dated. I think that we can quickly scratch those as candidates for the best games. - Thomas _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
