Re: GNOME 2.4.1 and 2.5 schedule

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 11:28, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 16:21, Luis Villa wrote:
> > On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 10:53, Sven Herzberg wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > >   as some of you may have seen on FootNotes, there is a new cute
> > > gnome-based game called monkey-bubble. I talked to the maintainer today
> > > and he'd like to get it into GNOME 2.6. I committed some stuff today
> > > (e.g. added i18n) and I'm going to help to get it as much GNOME-ish as
> > > possible.
> > > 
> > >   I would like to see a new arcade game in the next GNOME release and I
> > > think that monkey-bubble has got the potential to make a really good
> > > GNOME game.
> > 
> > monkey-bubble is definitely pretty sweet looking, but... I'd prefer to
> > see it become a part of gnome-games, though, instead of adding an
> > additional module/build-thing/whathaveyou just for one game. That's my
> > just two cents, though. [Maybe monster-masher might be ready for that as
> > well? Don't know, I've never built it.]
> 
> And in my left ear, I hear Alex complaining about the size of the
> tarball :)
> 
> gnome-games is big enough already, and stand-alone games will mean that
> they will be maintained or die. Nobody wants their pretty game removed,
> but they don't want to maintain it, lazy buggers.

Oh, I think Callum was already proposing nuking some of the old games,
so I guess I was making an unstated assumption that it would get smaller
before it got bigger. 

Luis