Re: Clone of 2048 for Gnome

["Juan R." García Blanco <juanrgar gmail com>]

Hi,

As suggested and following interest from other GNOME developers I just
created the gnome-2048 repo and pushed the code. Please let me know if
there is anything wrong and if I can do something to fix it.

Best regards,
Juan.

On Mon, 2015-01-05 at 11:24 -0600, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 8:01 AM, Yosef Or Boczko <yoseforb gnome org>
> wrote:
> > > E.g., I think it is not right for the scoreboard to be a tiny
> > GtkLabel > in the header bar.
>
>
> Putting the score in the header bar is actually pretty typical for us.
> I would prepend "Score: " to the label, and take advantage of
> GtkLabel's markup capabilities to make that portion of the label bold,
> like in Five or More.
>
>
> Remember also that GNOME is all-caps, but we don't usually use GNOME
> in the title of the apps that we display to the user, except in the
> appdata file (so that it's distinguished from other 2048 games in the
> software center). E.g. if you start GNOME Chess, the display name is
> simply Chess.
>
> > > Also, I'm thinking of eventually proposing gnome-2048 to be a
> > Gnome > module. I have received positive feedback in games-list on
> > this kind > of > game, it is in the scope of the Gnome games
> > 'bundle'. Right now I have > not yet made an official release, and I
> > have not packaged it for any > distro. However, I wonder what are
> > the chances of this game to be > hosted > in git.gnome.org and take
> > advantage of Gnome's infrastructure.
>
>
> You can actually move it to git.gnome.org yourself, since you have a
> GNOME account, following these
> steps: https://wiki.gnome.org/Git/NewRepository
>
>
> The project prerequisites page says you should have one public release
> already. That rule is a little stricter than I think is applied in
> practice. At the latest, I would move the project to git.gnome.org
> immediately before you make the first public release (which you would
> handle just as you did for Dictionary).
>
>
> Getting it into the official gnome-apps moduleset (which should be
> your goal, probably for 3.18) requires permission from the release
> team. I wouldn't worry about this too much, but I'd rather wait until
> you've polished up the game a bit more before requesting this.
>
>
> Michael
> >