Unknown Horizons

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 05/11/2012 10:40 PM, Nelson Marques wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The wishlist for GAMES SIG in Fedora contemplates Unknown Horizons
> (UH); I'm a part of upstream UH and I've packaged it in the past for
> Fedora and openSUSE and served it through a 3rd party repository to
> both platforms.
>
> I know that Simon was working on this since 2009, and it's not my
> interest to override someone, so if Simon wants to keep on packaging
> UH, it's cool with me, nevertheless I would like to be involved as
> well on this so that UH can be updated in time and can be available on
> Fedora on the release date. My goal is also to provide upstream
> support to Fedora users, this is why it's important somehow to us that
> we have some control over UH packages.
>
> I have submited a request for UH in Fedora in the past, which I closed
> later after knowing Simon was working on it; things have changed and
> we (UH upstream) want to colaborate with the Fedora community to
> achieve the best solution possible for Fedora users.
>
> Another issue comes with FIFE, the engine that powers up UH; I would
> like to be involved in this package also (Simon's co-maintainer ?), as
> I also have good relations and would like that upstream FIFE could
> support officially the Fedora platform and packages.
>
> I look forward to get some feedback regarding FIFE and UH and to work
> with GAMES Sig on Fedora to provide a kick a$$ package of UH!

First of all, welcome to the Fedora Games mailinglist, and let me say that
we would love to have Unknown Horizons in Fedora.

You mentioned a review request for UH that you closed, which I indeed
found:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=718430

That review request points to this (recently fixed) FIFE bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=757352

But AFAIK there is no new review request for UH, did I miss it?

So the first thing to do would be to work together with Simon to create
a new review request based on the latest spec / srpm you've available for
UH.

In the FIFE bug I've read that the problem with UH is that some of
the game content files are of unclear origin, this is an absolute
blocker for getting UH into Fedora. So the first point of order
would be to make a list of all content (images, sounds, music,
level files, etc.), their origin and their license.

Any file which is either of an unknown origin / has an unknown
license, or has a license Fedora does not accept will need to either
be relicensed (requires permission of the original author), or
replaced!

This license audit (and replacing any files with issues) is by
far the biggest job that needs doing. Once that is done the
rest of the work for getting UH into Fedora will be relatively
easy :)

Regards,

Hans