[Kde-games-devel] Moving KDots to KDE Review

[Ian Wadham]

Hi Minh,

On 05/04/2015, at 10:46 PM, Minh Ngo wrote:
> It's in KDEReview now, https://projects.kde.org/projects/kdereview/kdots .

Thanks, but it should not be.  You seem to have skipped
https://techbase.kde.org/Policies/Application_Lifecycle#Stage_1:_The_start … :-)
i.e. I do not think anybody in the KDE Games group has seen your code or, more
importantly, played the game.  I certainly have not yet played it.  Where was
KDots before?

In the past we have used Playground to develop games beyond the first draft.
That way we all get a chance to try out a new game before it gets set in concrete.
This is something like the usability review that should be a precursor of KDE Review
in other apps.  Also, other games authors get a chance to discuss the game and 
suggest ideas or help out in some way.

We are rather thin on the ground here at the moment, but I will try and find time
to try out KDots in the next day or two.  Gameplay is all-important to us, followed
closely by graphics, documentation and (if appropriate) sound.  We also like to
have a web-page entry for each game, but some pages are sadly out of date.

As I said, we are thin on the ground.  And there are a lot of KDE Games already,
far more than we can reasonably maintain (fixing bugs, etc).  So we would have to
think very carefully about taking another game on board.  We would certainly be
looking for a commitment from you to maintain KDots for a reasonable time.

> Sorry about the broken link. KSquares and KDots are different games. I'm talking about this game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dots_%28game%29.

Ah yes, It becomes clearer now.  Thank you.

Cheers, Ian W.