Re: Gnome Games 2.22.1

["Thomas H.P. Andersen" <phomes gmail com>]

I agree with you completely that doing checkins in the last few hours
before a release is not a good thing. But I still believe that these
fixes are important enough that we need to include them. 3 of them
were in the top 4 of often crashers in gnome-games the last 14 days.
Two of them were also very trivial bugs. The 4th fix was for an issue
that would cause you to keep getting the same puzzle every time until
you complete it or save it. I fear that we will get another bug flood
if we don't get these in before ubuntu ships hardy. I don't want to
waste as much time as I did last release dealing with bug reports.

Regarding gnometris I'm running version 1.5.14 of cairo and I still
see the issue. It does not get really bad until i have enough bricks
to fill the screen up 2/3 but then it has also reached the level where
I cannot control it any more. This is on a 6800 GT graphics card and
3200+ athlon cpu so I dont' think we can blame the users hardware for
this one. The game in its current state is completely unusable for me.
I really think we should switch to a less demanding theme as default.

(The new theme uses a lot of gradients but cairo does not handle
gradients in an optimized way yet. From the talk carl worth gave at
lca this is comming in future versions however. Lca is some time ago
so maybe the optimizations are already in. I don't know).

Waiting with the release until Tuesday is a good idea. So far the only
late changes have been for sudoku so whoever is reading this please
check out the 2-22 branch and give sudoku a good testing.

- Thomas

On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 5:53 PM, Jason D. Clinton <me jasonclinton com> wrote:
> I purposefully waited until you and the rest of Europe were asleep to
>  ensure that nothing would get missed. We should definitely not wait
>  until the last 18 hours to check in fixes, especially this many;
>  there's no time to test them. I'm all for reducing the number of bug
>  fillings, though. Lets wait until Tuesday to actually push 2.22.1.1
>  out so I have time to test a little.
>
>  As for Gnometris, I have no idea. There are certainly things that can
>  be done to help performance. Cairo 1.5.x is a huge step in the right
>  direction. I have that installed here and the Gnometris performance on
>  my--admittedly powerful--laptop is acceptable and noticeably better.
>  There's room for improvement, of course.
>
>
>
>
>  On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Thomas H.P. Andersen <phomes gmail com> wrote:
>  > Either way is fine by me. If I knew you planned to do the release I
>  >  would have warned you about the extra fixes that's all. I've committed
>  >  them now btw. We still need to look at what to do with gnometris.
>  >
>  >  - Thomas
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >  On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Jason D. Clinton <me jasonclinton com> wrote:
>  >  > Andreas and I used to split it by one of us doing stable releases and
>  >  >  the other doing development releases. If you want to do it that way,
>  >  >  which would you prefer?
>  >  >
>  >  >
>  >  >
>  >  >  On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 2:05 AM, Thomas H.P. Andersen <phomes gmail com> wrote:
>  >  >  > We probably want to do a 2.22.1.1 too. Tom fixed a few important
>  >  >  >  crasher bugs for sudoku and I have one ready too for bug #515041 that
>  >  >  >  I will check in when I get home (damn university network). I hope that
>  >  >  >  ubuntu will pick up the 2.22.1 releases for hardy so we should try to
>  >  >  >  get as many crasher bugs fixed included before that.
>  >  >  >
>  >  >  >  We also need to do something about the gnometris performance issue. It
>  >  >  >  was not really fixed and bugs keep showing up about it in bugzilla and
>  >  >  >  launchpad.
>  >  >  >
>  >  >  >  Jason, perhaps we should choose beforehand who will do each release?
>  >  >  >  Having two maintainers gets kind of chaotic if we don't try to
>  >  >  >  coordinate these things.
>  >  >  >
>  >  >  >  - Thomas
>  >  >  >
>  >  >  >
>  >  >  >
>  >  >  >
>  >  >  >  On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 6:10 AM, Jason D. Clinton <me jasonclinton com> wrote:
>  >  >  >  > This is the first service release in the 2.22.x release series. A few minor bug
>  >  >  >  >  fixes are included. Also, a handful of translation updates.
>  >  >  >  >
>  >  >  >  >  Overall:
>  >  >  >  >   - Merge changes in ggz.m4 from ggz trunk. (Roger Light, Andreas Røsdal, bug
>  >  >  >  >     #520599, bug #510917)
>  >  >  >  >
>  >  >  >  >  Aisleriot:
>  >  >  >  >   - Add back the statistics fallback (Christian Persch, bug #406267, bug
>  >  >  >  >     #525177)
>  >  >  >  >   - Don't allow moving non-uniformly suited card stacks to foundation (Philippe
>  >  >  >  >     Gauthier, Christian Persch, bug #443307)
>  >  >  >  >   - Make shuffle-deck-helper tail recursive. Fixes stack overflow exception
>  >  >  >  >     with guile 1.8.4. (Vincent Povirk, Christian Persch, bug #519554)
>  >  >  >  >
>  >  >  >  >  GLChess:
>  >  >  >  >   - Abort 3D render if widget_get_gl_context() returns None (Robert Ancell,
>  >  >  >  >     bug #512068)
>  >  >  >  >   - Add Gambit Fruit to AI list (Robert Ancell, bug #521623)
>  >  >  >  >   - Handle AI players dying before the game starts (Robert Ancell, bug #522341)
>  >  >  >  >   - Handle GLError->GLerror, GLUError -> GLUerror objects being renamed in
>  >  >  >  >     PyOpenGL 3.0 (Robert Ancell, bug #503238)
>  >  >  >  >   - Fix board rotation animation bug when viewing black side (Robert Ancell)
>  >  >  >  >
>  >  >  >  >  Translator work included contributions from Kostas Papadimas, Simos
>  >  >  >  >  Xenitellis, Eskild Hustvedt, Philip Withnall, Priit Laes, S.D., Ivar Smolin,
>  >  >  >  >  Artur Flinta, and the GNOME PL team.
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