[Kde-games-devel] The Oware Wizard

[Thomas Friedrichsmeier]

Hi Michael,

> I'm not sure whether you guys forgot about me, but I have that great Oware
> game that I'd like to add to KDE-Games.
>
> I've been pretty busy lately, but have managed to make the changes you
> requested. I probably won't have too much time to devote until a month or
> so, but I don't imagine much more needs to be done.
>
> What's the next step in adding it to the distribution?

first off: I am not the person to ask. I am not involved in "official" KDE 
development. I maintain another KDE game, but it is not in KDE-games, and I'm 
not actively working towards that state either. Also I must admit I have not 
even tested your game (though I believe I'm familiar with the oware game).
Still, I think before proceeding further, you should consider your options and 
what they may mean:

Integration in KDE-games
- Advantages for you:
	- extremely high visibility and distribution
	- some maintainance will be taken care of by other people, though many 
KDE-games seem to have gone a long time without any active work
- Advantages for KDE-games:
	- yet another KDE game
- Disadvantages for you:
	- getting your game into KDE-games will take quite some more nagging
	- you have to get (almost) fully compliant to KDE standards and rules, but 
you may not get much help with getting there due to limited resources
	- you lose some control over further development
- Disadvantages for KDE-games:
	- size of distribution is ever increasing
	- more stuff to maintain (port to new major versions of KDE, keep up to 
date...)

Personally - but again, my opinion does not really count much - I'd rather 
vote against integrating many more games into KDE. This only my personal 
opinion, but the more games in KDE, the larger the reluctance to include new 
games will probably get.

Further options besides integration in KDE-games (and you should probably do 
those, anyway)
- host your game on a site like sourceforge or berlios or others:
	- provides several facilities for users and potential developers to get in 
contact with you (bug-trackers, public CVS, etc.)
- announce your game on http://freshmeat.net:
	- a must if you want better visibility / more users
- announce your game on http://www.kde-apps.org:
	- a must for KDE applications

Again: You don't need to listen to me. But maybe this is still worth 
considering to you.

Regards
Thomas