Should Fedora become upstream for "chess"

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Sun Nov 15 16:48:27 UTC 2009


On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 19:37:04 -0600,
  Jon Ciesla <limb at jcomserv.net> wrote:
> 
> I think the problems are
> probably solvable.  I think we (collectively) can do it.  You
> could enlist Nicholas Mailhot(not sure if he's on this list or not) for
> font assistance.  We can use the opengl-games-utils package to check
> for 3d.  I can take a look at some of the other things, too. 
> Looks like Hans owns it, and while he could be a great resource for a lot
> of this, he's been pretty busy lately and has been asking for people to
> take of things here and there, so he may not have the bandwidth.  
> 
> Let me know what you think, and if you'd like take me up on any or
> all my offers of assistance.

I am willing to do most of the initial work, asking for help where needed.

I think forking a project (even a small one like chess) is a big step.
There are also potential repercussions in the reputation area. Which is
why I would ask the original developer to see if he still considers chess
finished before becoming upstream. But it also seems silly to be sharing
out updates in the form of a src rpm (with patch files and scripts being
run to update meshes), when a repository with an occasional tar ball would be
easier for other people who want to keep using the program in other
distributions with an up to date ogre.

I am pretty close to asking Hans to be a comaintainer of ogre, ois and
chess in devel anyway, because I want some movement there to help get
dungeonhack packaged. I think the person who has been helping with this
stuff recently is having some problems being able to test 3d (which I
understand as my radeons just became usable for that) because of nVidia
driver issues.




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