Kåre Fiedler Christiansen wrote:
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 20:34, Jon Ciesla limb@jcomserv.net wrote:
Kåre Fiedler Christiansen wrote:
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 17:47, Bruno Wolff III bruno@wolff.to wrote:
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I think for F12 you might let it sit in testing for a month or so to let people switch when they want. This isn't perfect as some people may not know the update is there. I think it should eventually be in F12 as people playing multiplayer are going to want 1.8.
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I for one would be extremely miffed if any update in F12 would make my savegame non-functional.
If 1.8 breaks savegame compatibility, I really think it should not be pushed before F13.
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This is exactly the 1.4>1.6 debate, practically verbatim, and why I'm leaning towards Bruno's proposal ( :) ). People who primarily play online are adamant that we update a stable release. People who primarily play solo are adamant that we do not update a stable release. I happen to primarily play solo, and I'm running a local build of 1.8, so that's no help. :)
Unless I hear a great deal of wailing and gnashing of teeth in the next few days, I'll probably proceed with Project Bruno.
I'd also like to hear from wtogami, the co-maintainer, but I've not heard from him since he changed jobs, though I have his new email.
I'm a little confused as to what that means.
Bruno's suggestion seems to be that the updated will be pushed in a month or so. How does that help anyone?
The online gamers probably want it now. The solo-players don't want it at all. How will it help to delay anything a month? That just makes no-one happy. If I need to be hit with an unwanted update, I might as well get it now as in a month. I still vote no (and have already blacklisted Wesnoth updates until this thread is resolved), but if it's decided to push an update the breaks savegames, I fail to see what is won by waiting a month.
My understanding has always been that within the same Fedora release, I should expect to be able to do updates without anything breaking functionality. To me, this feels like pushing a major version of, say, gnumeric, that wouldn't read my old files; and doing so mid-Fedora-release.
Best, Kåre
What about leaving it updates-testing indefinitely? That way people who really want it can get it without , and those who don't or don't opt in won't?
-J