[Weekly report] Week 2: Seed+Clutter GNOME Games

["Timothy P. Horton" <hortont424 gmail com>]

I spent a good part of the last five days (my last status report was  
late, so the duration between these two is less than it ought to be;  
do let me know if Sunday night is the wrong time for these!) working  
on various things:

* I created a branch of GNOME Games for myself (gsoc-seed-games) and  
imported the rewrite of Lights Off from last week into it.

* I finished populating the PPA that I mentioned that I created in the  
previous cycle. It has fresh-from-Git versions of webkit, seed, opengl- 
glib, gobject-introspection, gir-repository, gnome-js-common, clutter,  
and clutter-gtk as well as a copy of gnome-games which includes my  
branch, Guillaume's branch, and Zhang's branch (so, as far as I know,  
all of the GNOME Games GSoC Goodness).

* I talked to both Guillaume and Zhang to fix tiny packaging problems  
in their branches in order to achieve the above.

* I spent the better part of an entire day deep inside the Clutter  
source, trying to determine the source of a bug; I eventually found  
the _source_ of the bug (#1631), but do not have a proper patch; the  
PPA includes a patch (which is also in the seed repo, in the patches  
subdir) that removes the broken optimization, but I'm not sure how to  
appropriately /fix/ it... in any case, this means that the most  
significant animation bugs are fixed.

* I cannot wait until Clutter-1.0's API stability. There was lots of  
updating Lights Off to the changes caused by the merge of the  
integration-1.0 branch into head, this week, too...

All in all, a week of bugs and packaging, and not a whole lot of  
awesome new code... but these are important things! I also made a very  
overview-y next-steps-to-do list at Thomas' request:

1) Get libgames-support installed + building gir/typelib.

2) Consume libgames-support inside LO so I get game-related stock  
items and stuff, finish LO UI.

3) Move LO + Same into gnome-games git. (this is half done, now)

4) UI for Same (consuming libgames-support stuff); high-scores,  
preferences (?)

5) Mines!