Re: Frozen Bubble 2.201 is out

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 7:10 AM, Guillaume Cottenceau <[email protected]>wrote:

> >> You've chosen your own
> >> numbering (2.201) and to keep the original name, so for
> >> outside/distribution people it looks like just a normal upgrade (I
> >> already got that echo from Mandriva).
> >
> > We call it Games::FrozenBubble too close?
>
> I think so, yes. "Games" for people has just no meaning since it looks
> like a categorizing part. And "FrozenBubble" is exactly the same name
> except the - separator in the middle of the original name. That said,
> I cannot suggest a very good name change and it also would imply some
> graphics changes. So I'd favor a bold explanation on your releases.
>
>
> >> If there are any problems with
> >> your releases in stable distributions, I would not like to be
> >> associated with these problems, and for that I'd appreciate a naming
> >> change, I think "ported to CPAN" is probably not enough. I think the
> >> most simple would be to not do releases, leaving me some (reasonable
> >> amount of) time so that we try to agree on a common codebase and
> >> acceptable planning for the future.
> >
> > We can hold back on releases for sure. That is not too hard to do :).
>
> Great. Can you already add a bold statement in current release stating
> it's not (yet) an official upgrade to original Frozen-Bubble game?
>
> Ok we can make a tiny release to update this as you say.

>
> >> By reasonable time, I can offer a
> >> serious review of your branch this week already and then some more
> >> work if needed in the following weeks.
> >
> > No worries take as much time as you need.
>
> Thanks - but it would not be fair to your work to take a lot of time,
> so I'll try to act this week already.
>

Thanks

>
>

> >> By acceptable planning, I think
> >> that everything which you'd plan to do which wouldn't hurt our
> >> original view of the game (including its stability for example) would
> >> be totally fine (for example, your refactoring plans); since we didn't
> >> plan many more developments and it's open source, it's normal others
> >> people could improve the software if they want to do; however, my only
> >> limit would be if you chose to implement things I'm strongly against
> >> to see in FB, then I'd ask for a name change.
> >
> > We haven't made any logic changes in FB at all. Just porting.
> > We could later fix bugs but there is no game play changes in mind.
>
> Ok.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Guillaume Cottenceau - http://zarb.org/~gc/ <http://zarb.org/%7Egc/>
>