Versioning of Knights and other KDE games

[Alexander Semke]

Am 15.10.24 um 00:27 schrieb Albert Astals Cid:
> El dilluns, 14 d’octubre del 2024, a les 10:05:23 (CEST), Alexander Semke va
> escriure:
>
> I _assumed_ this is not the case because of the different versions used
> by the different games that are not consistent with the versioning used
> for other applications under the Gear umbrella. I see the packages for
> KDE games now listed on the download page for Gears. For a user, seeing
> the version 0.9.24082 for KMahjong or the version 2.6.241170 for Knights
> in the about-dialog is not obvious these applications are part of the
> same "bundle", are following the same release schedule and the last
> release is 24.08 - why do I see 24.08.2 for Dolphin but not for KMahjong
> which are both part of the same release?
> KDE Gear is mostly a "marketing term" we release things at the same time
> because it's convenient, I am persinally not convinced the user cares if
> Dolphin and KMahjong have different actual versions.

It's about the consistency of what is being released unter this
marketing term to reduce the potential confusion, not about if some
users care about it or not.


>> If
>> it's 24.12, how should the user know they got this version if they see
>> 2.6.x in the about dialog? If it's 2.6.x, how should the user know they
>> are going to get it with the next release of Gears being 24.12?
> There is no easy way for them to know that 2.6.x will be part of KDE Gear
> 24.12 unless you write it in the bug.

This is exactly the point and also the reason why I put 24.12 in the bug
ticket.

> If you don't like the current semantic versioning scheme used in KNights and
> would to use calendar versioning, proposed a Merge Request and see what others
> have to say, personally I don't care either way.

I _personally_ don't like this versioning scheme for KDE Games because
it's different from other applications under KDE Gears. Since I'm a very
sporadic contributor to KDE Games, the opinion of other more active
developers in this area is more important I think.


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Alexander