Bug 760832 - Nexuiz game is no longer maintained, should be replaced with successor/fork Xonotic
Summary: Nexuiz game is no longer maintained, should be replaced with successor/fork X...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: nexuiz
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Gwyn Ciesla
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Depends On: 886903
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-12-07 04:07 UTC by Andrew Ter-Grigoryan
Modified: 2013-03-04 22:25 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2013-03-04 22:25:21 UTC
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Description Andrew Ter-Grigoryan 2011-12-07 04:07:32 UTC
All development on Nexuiz has stopped; the rights the the name and a proprietary license to the code were sold to a commercial company. Development continues in the form of a fork called Xonotic (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/).

I guess there are two problems with including it in Fedora at this point:

1.) The current version 0.5 is possibly not stable enough.
2.) Xonotic uses a newer version of the Darkplaces engine than Nexuiz, so including Xonotic w/ the right dependencies might require getting rid of Nexuiz

No, I have no ability nor experience maintaining packages myself, and there's nobody that works on Xonotic that is a Fedora team member (I asked).

Comment 1 Andrew Ter-Grigoryan 2011-12-07 04:08:34 UTC
Sorry, the URL is: http://www.xonotic.org/

But I'm sure this is old news.

Comment 2 Gwyn Ciesla 2012-01-26 16:02:29 UTC
Yeah, I've been putting this off.  I'll start work on it.  Thanks!

Comment 3 Leszek Matok 2012-03-10 12:53:53 UTC
Hello, I just want to refresh this request with information that Xonotic 0.6 has been released. Cheers :)

Comment 4 Gwyn Ciesla 2012-03-12 16:07:35 UTC
Good to know, thanks!  0.5.0 wasn't working for me, I'll see if this is better.  Could be my hardware. :)

Comment 5 Gwyn Ciesla 2012-04-02 13:55:53 UTC
0.6.0 seems better, but I can't really see.  I can post builds for people to test, so it can be working prior to submitting it for review.  What releases and arches do you want?

Comment 6 Leszek Matok 2012-04-02 15:04:21 UTC
Myself I'm on F14 so please post srpms if you're interesting if they would rebuild :)

PS. Remember Xonotic requires at least current Darkplaces from div0-stable branch if you're going to use system-wide version instead of bundled fork.

Comment 7 Gwyn Ciesla 2012-04-02 18:44:02 UTC
Ugh, I forgot that darkplaces was bundled.  I really will need to split that out and have multiple reviews.  To be continued.

Comment 8 Gwyn Ciesla 2012-09-25 13:51:56 UTC
Still working on this, and I now have a machine that can run nexuiz satisfactorily, so this may move faster now. :)

Comment 9 Gwyn Ciesla 2012-10-02 12:24:10 UTC
I have a package nearly ready, and it plays. . .but I'm not sure it's ready.  Have any of you run into problems where you spawn in odd places?  Like halfway in a desk, or outside, falling through space?

Comment 10 Erik Schilling 2012-12-12 19:30:26 UTC
the 0.6 version of xonotic i rather stable actually. Spawning in desks or outside of map never occurred to me on default xonotic servers. However there are some servers running spawning mods (like spawn near to team mates). But vanilla xonotic should be fine and more stable than nexuiz.

Regards and looking forward to see xonotic in the Fedora repositories and thanks a lot for the work on it,
Erik Schilling (Ablu)

Comment 11 Gwyn Ciesla 2012-12-12 19:32:31 UTC
My testing wasn't on a remote server, it was on a local game.

Comment 12 Erik Schilling 2012-12-12 19:50:52 UTC
I never heard about this kind of issues (though i myself only work with git servers). I will try testing with exact 0.6. Could you maybe share your packages so i can test with them?

Comment 13 Gwyn Ciesla 2012-12-13 13:20:23 UTC
Sure, what Fedora release and arch do you need?

Comment 14 Gwyn Ciesla 2012-12-13 14:27:13 UTC
Nevermind, I rebuild and tested on f18 and it's fine. I'll start a rename review.

Comment 15 Erik Schilling 2012-12-14 16:05:52 UTC
Thanks a lot for all the work on it from the Xonotic community!

Have a nice weekend!
Erik

Comment 16 Andrew Ter-Grigoryan 2013-01-29 00:37:01 UTC
Xonotic is not in F18 repos. Explanation?

Comment 17 Gwyn Ciesla 2013-01-29 14:21:30 UTC
The rename review isn't finished yet.  I've got feedback from others, but I've not had time to implement it.  I'll try to get to it this week or next.

Comment 18 Fedora Update System 2013-02-22 17:34:16 UTC
xonotic-data-0.6.0-4.fc18,xonotic-0.6.0-6.fc18 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 18.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/xonotic-data-0.6.0-4.fc18,xonotic-0.6.0-6.fc18

Comment 19 Fedora Update System 2013-03-04 22:25:23 UTC
xonotic-data-0.6.0-4.fc18, xonotic-0.6.0-7.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository.


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