Name of the 'chess' package

Hans de Goede j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl
Thu Nov 19 10:56:54 UTC 2009


On 11/18/2009 01:49 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:36:02 -0600,
>    Bruno Wolff III<bruno at wolff.to>  wrote:
>> We currently have a 3d chess game packaged as chess. I want to ask for
>> fedora hosted space for it sop that we can be upstream for some modernization
>> (with regard to ogre and gcc) changes. However it strikes me that the package
>> name probably shouldn't have been 'chess' as that is a generic name. Before
>> officially asking for fedora hosted space I wanted to see if there is
>> sentiment to making some name change for F13+ and fedora hosted. Possibilities
>> would be 3dchess (possibly still too generic), ogrechess (possibly misleading,
>> as people might think it had ogres for pieces), chess-ogre or ?
>
> As a followup, I have opened a ticket
> (https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1822) to request a
> project for this under the name ogrechess.
>
> I expect eventually to want to change the package name to match, but there
> isn't a hurry. I might end up treating it as a new package (after getting
> most of the cleanup done) and obsoleting the old one.
>

Sounds good,

Regards,

Hans




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