stick's corner

We decided to restructure and cleanup the games projects in the openSUSE Build Service. Before the change we had 8 projects for each game genre (action, adventure, arcade, board, puzzle, roleplay, strategy/realtime, strategy/turn-based) and one separate project for game libraries (so you can play games even on older distributions with obsoleted libraries).

This situation was causing more harm than good, so now we will only have one “games” repository with all game genres together. If you have already added old game repositories, please remove them and add the brand new one located at http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games/ and then the directory of your distribution. The old URLs for the individual games repositories will no longer work.

If your favorite game is not yet packaged you can add it to the Games Wishlist at openSUSE wiki. Or even better, you can try to package it by yourself and when you are finished contact me and we will add the game to the repository. You can also ask on the opensuse-packaging@opensuse.org (subscribe) mailing list you have any troubles with the packaging.

Game On!

Hooray!

My proposal for Migration Assistant project was picked by student Peter Libič and later accepted by Google as Summer of Code project for openSUSE. I’m looking forward to this collaboration and the new ideas that will surely come!

It all started with my mail to opensuse mailing list:

I found out that Ubuntu has nice way to promote their new release – small banner which informs how many days are left before new version is out. See http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/countdown for details. This banner also links to information page about distribution features and _mainly_ to beta releases which can attract more testers. I think it would be nice if openSUSE had something similar. I would created it by myself but unfortunately I don’t have time right now.

The same day I received beautiful design from Billy Juliani, added some PHP magic into it and together we created countdown buttons for openSUSE 11.0. The result can be seen here: http://en.opensuse.org/Countdown