[Kde-games-devel] porting and the next release of knights

[laurent Montel]

Le mercredi 6 janvier 2016, 10:54:41 CET Alexander Semke a écrit :
> > What we do in applications that are part of the KDE Applications bundle
> > (knights is not) is basically you have one stable relesae and one
> > development branch, if those are KF5 or kdelibs4 based is up to the
> > resepective maintainers.
> 
> Ok. I'd like to do the following as next:
> 1. push Manoharan's diff to master and cherry-pick two or three relevant
> commits from frameworks to master

For me it's a good idea. I reviewed his changes.

> 2. Continue the development of the kf5-based version in master (there will
> be no kdelibs/Qt4-version anymore), mainly bug fixing and small polishment
> at the beginning
> 3. After couple of weeks we should have the application in a good shape
> ready to be released (v2.6.0). I'd vote for adding knights to KDE
> Applications - every desktop has or should have a chess application
> 4. For further development a new developmet branch will be created after the
> next release.

+1

Regards

> 
> Any objections here?
> 
> > Sure it can be added to https://www.kde.org/applications/games/ But you
> > understand that the content to go there is very minimal right? if we want
> > something bigger it needs to go somewhere else.
> 
> At the moment we don't have any content for knights. The old blog is gone. I
> thought of adding this application with a minimal description to that
> central place just to show that the application is alive and is (will be)
> part of KDE Applications. Currently, knights is quite good already for
> playing local games and games on FICS and it's nice looking. Just couple of
> annoying bugs and smaller features need to be fixed and developed. I don't
> think there's much need now to create a full-fledged page for it. Maybe
> later, when we decide knights to become a chess database like application
> like scid, it makes sence to create a dedicated homepage and to blog about
> the new features like the previous author of knights did.
> 
> What about the page on kde-apps?
> http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Knights?content=122046
> I don't expect the previous author to update this content anymore...


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