From kde-games-devel  Thu Jan 03 02:34:06 2019
From: Ian Wadham <iandw.au () gmail ! com>
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2019 02:34:06 +0000
To: kde-games-devel
Subject: Re: Moving gluon, gluon-blocks, ksokoban and libtagaro from playground-games to unmaintained
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Hi Albert,

> On 3 Jan 2019, at 9:51 am, Albert Astals Cid <aacid@kde.org> wrote:
>=20
> https://cgit.kde.org/ksokoban.git/log/
> https://cgit.kde.org/libtagaro.git/log/
> https://cgit.kde.org/gluon.git/log/
> https://cgit.kde.org/gluon-blocks.git/log/
>=20
> All of the 4 are still qt4 based
>=20
> All of them haven't had any meaningul commit in a long time
>=20
> Anyone against us moving them away from the "playground" virtual =
location to the "unmaintained" one?

libtagaro
     "Replacement for libkdegames which will allow KDE games to scale to =
mobile form factors, and to fully take advantage of Qt 4 facilities.=E2=80=
=9D
    The idea was good, but the author never finished work on it.
gluon
    "An open framework for developing, playing and distributing =
games.=E2=80=9D
gluon-blocks
    "The first game for KDE/Gluon=E2=80=9D
    Gluon was an ambitious project to revolutionise all KDE Games =
development, but it never came to fruition. I was quite interested
    in using Gluon, but the project never seemed to present anything I =
could get my teeth into. The authors have been long gone.
ksokoban
    A delightful KDE 3 game which never made the =E2=80=9Ccut=E2=80=9D =
for conversion to Qt4/KDE4. Several good games failed to make that cut,
    due to lack of resources in the KDE Games team, which was about 20 =
strong at Akademy 2008 BTW. Reasons were obscurity of
    existing code, lack of access to original author, need to re-develop =
all the artwork, etc.

    Someone was going to replace KSokoban with Magazynier (Polish for =
=E2=80=9Cshopkeeper=E2=80=9D. cf. Japanese =E2=80=9Csokoban=E2=80=9D =3D =
"warehouse man=E2=80=9D).
    I do not recall whether Magazynier ever got released or whether it =
too should go into =E2=80=9Cunmaintained".

    SO, facing reality, YES, move all 4 of the above to =
=E2=80=9Cunmaintained=E2=80=9D.

> At least saves some translators that may spend time translating them =
for no real reason.

I also mourn the loss of all the development effort=E2=80=A6 here and in =
other lost KDE games=E2=80=A6 :-(

Cheers,
Ian W.=