Re: Proposing game for inclusion

[Mario Wenzel <maweki gmail com>]

I feel that a language with an enforced type system is easier for
newcomers since the type checker does a lot of work for you.

I love many of the python paradigms and I would always choose if for
something I'm working on alone or everybody's always talking like a
proper company's development team.

I would guess, without being able to substantiate that, that the quality
of "drive-by-contributions" for languages without compile-time
type-checking are generally worse than the alternative.

But I would make the lack of manpower mainly responsible. We have/had
(don't know the current status) a hopeful SoC applicant for finishing
the Port of Sudoku but we had to turn away an OPW applicant for lack of
available mentors.
I hope I will be able to do a port myself this autumn as part of my
masters degree.

We are very lucky to be in a state where we can regularily release 15
games per release schedule. This wasn't done this time last year.

There's also the issue of wanting to have a unified design for the games
that fits with gnome3 and this will take a lot of time as well.

Prioritizing is hard :(

Mario


Am Dienstag, den 15.04.2014, 21:16 +0200 schrieb John Stowers:
> Hi,
>
>
> Yeah, nothing personal (it wasn't you anyway).
>
>
> I never really thought a single language hegemony made sense once the
> modules were split into separate repositories. Anyway, water under the
> bridge now.
>
>
>
> I just posted to point out that every technology choice has an
> opportunity cost, and one should re-evaluate those on occasion.
>
>
> I'm using PyGObject + Python3 in a number of significant code bases
> outside of GNOME and the current state of python + g-i is fantastic.
>
>
> John
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 9:09 PM, Thomas H.P. Andersen
> <phomes gmail com> wrote:
>         > Might I point out that the port of sudoku to Vala has been
>         ongoing for more
>         > than two years.
>         >
>         > I initially ported it to PyGObject and Gtk+3 years ago and
>         then politely
>         > instructed to abandon it (to wait for the Vala port to be
>         completed).
>         >
>         > Finally, Python 3 is a modern language, and the PyGObject
>         bindings are
>         > currently the most advanced and complete users of g-i.
>         
>         
>         Hi John,
>         
>         I don't think that I ever asked you to abandon it. That was
>         not the
>         intention at least. I appreciated your work on the port. It
>         was a
>         great help. The long term goal was move all games the games to
>         vala
>         because it was easier for us to maintain it that way [1]. The
>         vala
>         port was never completed and I am to blame for that. I was
>         just never
>         able to find the time to complete it. After we split all the
>         games
>         into separate modules the primary motivation  was gone and now
>         that we
>         even have it ported gtk3 and python3 it has dropped even lower
>         on my
>         wishlist.
>         
>         Today I consider Michael to be the real maintainer for the
>         game and
>         the decision to go ahead with the port or not is up to him.
>         
>         https://mail.gnome.org/archives/games-list/2011-April/msg00004.html