Hi, The following project was submitted to Savannah. It needs evaluation to become a GNU package, can you give it a look, please ?
Submitter: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Project Full Name: FreeDink Project System Name: dink License: gpl Approval URL: https://savannah.gnu.org/admin/groupedit.php?group_id=5623 Description: The project is about Dink Smallwood, a free Zelda-like game engine. Dink was first a proprietary game. 3 months ago, its source code was released under a BSD-like licence (available at http://www.rtsoft.com/codedojo/files/dink/license.txt). The engine uses a set of base graphics, scripts and sound data (for which the engine was originaly written) which is freely redistribuable, though non-free yet, and allow players to make their own add-on with as much power as the creators of the game. The engine can be used without the base data. The first effort was to define the original licence to make it free and set up a decent work environment. Christoph Reichenback (jameson) took care of that part and chose SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/dink/), since at that time, Dink relied on the non-free library DirectX. The next effort was to get a usable Unix port. Shawn Betts (sabetts) worked on a usable SDL conversion from DirectX, which is functional at least under GNU/Linux and FreeBSD, but still needs works to make it as good as the original non-free version (sound rate, some small bugs...). I took care of lots of administrative tasks such as copylefting the code with the GNU GPL, fixing some CVS repository issues, and gave some end-user support. I am currently adding a way for the Unix port to play unmodified games developed for Windows, and I plan to add gettext support to its scripting language, which is part of my translation effort I began mid-2000 (http://dink-translation.beuc.net - an effort that will be used by SuSE Germany). These two people mentioned above cannot take care of the project anymore, are not administrators anymore, and left the project in the hands of Andrew Reading, who was the only active registered developer. Unfortunately, he lacks administrators and programming skills. We also have incompatible views on the project: he wants to improve the buggy builtin scripting language, which may break backward compatibility with existing add-ons, instead of using an already existing robust scripting language such as Guile; he also has less interest in making the package compliant with the GNU standards (such as maintaining a decent ChangeLog, and using standard directory hierarchy). Last, I also need to fix his errors on the CVS repository more than I can admit. But the worst problem is that it is very difficult to communicate, even if we have a mailing-list and a chat available for our project. After a little quiproquo, he even suggested I could be denied access to the source repository. That lead me to consider a difficult decision: the need to fork. I dislike splitting programming efforts, but I have the feeling of wasting my time on a project that may end going in the wrong direction. Hence this project registration request. Now that Dink is usable under GNU systems, it has the opportunity of being hosted at Savannah, I am happy to try it. Source code: cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/dink login (no password) cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/dink co dink -- the Savannah admin _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.nongnu.org/ _______________________________________________ Savannah-hackers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/savannah-hackers
