Re: Dropping some games (insert ominious music)

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

On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 14:44, Robert Ancell <robert ancell gmail com> wrote:
> So, you must all be sick of hearing from me right now...
>
> As part of these discussions about splitting, who's here, porting to
> Vala, perhaps we should think about what games we support.  Some
> thoughts:
> - Do we have enough people for the current set?
> - Are there games that aren't fun by modern standards?
> - Is it worth the effort of porting some games?
>
> Some numbers pulled from the Ubuntu Software Center (star rating and
> number of rating in brackets):
> gnotski 5 (1) [1]
> glines 5 (6)
> glchess 4.5 (23)
> gnotravex 4.5 (7)
> gtali 4.5 (2)
> gnomine 4 (26)
> sudoku 4 (13)
> iagno 4 (6)
> nibbles 4 (6)
> mahjongg 4 (5)
> gnect 3.5 (6)
> quadrapassel 3 (8)
> gnobots2 3 (5)
> lightsoff 0 (0) [2]
> swell-foop 0 (0) [2]
>
> [1] Obviously an outlier...
> [2] Not in the archive, no data
>
> Based on the data and my experience, perhaps we should look seriously
> at the future of gnobots2, gnect and gnotski...  (I've ignored
> quadrapassel for now as I think its bad rating is mostly due to
> performance reasons.  It has a reasonably modern codebase and might be
> resurrectable.  Or perhaps there are other Tetris clones out there
> that better fill the role and we can leave it to them).

Last I checked these were the games distros chose to put on the live cd's.
fedora:
  iagno
  mines
  sudoku
  swell-foop

ubuntu:
  mahjongg
  mines
  sudoku

suse:
  chess
  freecell
  lightsoff
  mahjongg
  mines
  quadrapassel
  sudoku
  swell foop

Just to add some more data.