[Kde-games-devel] KDE Games Report from Akademy 2008

[Josef Spillner]

Am Samstag 16 August 2008 19:48:49 schrieb Matt Williams:
> On Wednesday we had a status report BoF from Josef but I'll let him update
> people on that if he wants.

The talk was about moving more multiplayer-related libraries into libkdegames, 
which almost everyone agreed upon. The move will happen in a couple of weeks. 
It won't make the games more multiplayer-capable per se, but increases the 
visibility of the features by introducing a connection dialogue. This will 
hopefully lead to more people being interested in these features and in turn 
implementing multiplayer modes into their games :-)

The time after the talk was used to port the KDE 3 table configuration 
dialogue for game launching so that one can now play in any combination and 
not only against a bot. Another BoF on community issues brought some new 
ideas of how to guide people online when they play games to avoid community 
conflicts.

It was a very productive Akademy (despite me being on holiday there, ha) and I 
share the positive feeling described by Matt for meeting so many known and 
new faces.

> == kdegameslibs Module ==
[...]
> Action needed:
>   * Talk to release-team about creating the new module (Matt Williams)

It would be wise to create a list of functionality that kdegames, kdeedu and 
other modules share before approaching release-team. This might even include 
planned functionality not in SVN yet. Such a module will likely only be 
accepted if there is a lot to share; otherwise the recommendation could be to 
use svn:externals.

I like the idea of creating a kdegameslibs module, although I wonder how this 
might increasingly complicate the installation process if the global module 
order becomes more important and more *-libs modules are being created.

Josef