Re: Looking at retiring "chess"

2011-09-26 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 07:47:12 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > Unless someone speaks up, with some plan to make the current version work > in the near future, I'll start the retirement process in about a week. Chess has now been retired (pending processing by releng of the block ticket). -

Re: Looking at retiring "chess"

2011-09-23 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:39:46 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 06:47, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > I was hoping to be able to work on a forked version of chess and have it > > replace chess in Fedora, but I haven't had time to learn enough about > > ogre to do this,

Re: Looking at retiring "chess"

2011-09-22 Thread Kevin Kofler
Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > If it is broken.. why not retire it now so that people don't download > it, find it broken and then find out when no bugzilla reports are > fixed it was dead? Packages can only be retired from upcoming releases (i.e. currently Fedora 16 and newer, as he said), not fr

Re: Looking at retiring "chess"

2011-09-22 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 06:47, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > I was hoping to be able to work on a forked version of chess and have it > replace chess in Fedora, but I haven't had time to learn enough about > ogre to do this, and chess is broken enough now that there is no point > in including it any mo

Looking at retiring "chess"

2011-09-22 Thread Bruno Wolff III
I was hoping to be able to work on a forked version of chess and have it replace chess in Fedora, but I haven't had time to learn enough about ogre to do this, and chess is broken enough now that there is no point in including it any more. So I am looking at retiring it in f16+. The current status