I am personally disappointed that we would avoid upgrading wesnoth in order to maintain saved game compatibility. I believe that maintaining the ability to play on the network is more important. This also brings up a few new problems: 1) What about security maintenance? A security hole could be found in 1.2.8 either client or server. Will upstream continue to maintain that version? If so, for how long? 2) It was suggested in the bodhi ticket that users of older distributions should use a manual 3rd party repository in order to obtain a newer save-game incompatible version of wesnoth. This method seems undesirable to me for a number of additional reasons (guaranteeing that users of this repo actually get updates, security considerations). 3) Keeping Fedora versions on older wesnoth releases might be less of a problem due to the only ~13 month lifecycle. But what about wesnoth in EPEL? Big can of worms. 4) Downloadable content (maps, campaigns, etc.) for the older version became abandoned and more scarce as 1.4.x supplanted 1.2.x. New wesnoth users in the coming months will be increasingly frustrated that content they see on the websites/forums do not match what is available/usable in Fedora. This increases the perception that Fedora is not properly maintaining wesnoth, and perhaps you want to use another distro instead. There are a number of difficult drawbacks and hoops we have to jump through if we refuse to upgrade wesnoth to the latest stable as a matter of policy. Is this refusal worth these many drawbacks? Perhaps we should upgrade wesnoth to the latest stable, and provide the current older version *somewhere else* unsupported in case people want to play their older save games. The release notes of the update and elsewhere (wesnoth.org and fedora wiki) can mention how to downgrade and avoid yum upgrades. I realize this is a balancing act, but the reasons against upgrading are in the minority compared to the benefits both short and long-term. Warren Togami wtogami@xxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Fedora-games-list mailing list Fedora-games-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-games-list
