My bad. I equated lack of discussion with lack of progress. Sorry about that.
- eviljoel On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Zachary <zach...@ioquake.org> wrote: > On Mar 23, 2014, at 9:04 PM, eviljoel <joel.luellw...@linux.com> wrote: > > I've been putting some thought into this too. I'm thinking it might be > time for Zachary to pass the maintainer torch onto someone. It has been > some time since the last ioQuake3 release and it seems like he has > consistently been busy with other things for some time now. > > ... > > Don't get me wrong. Zachary did great work with this project. But it > is the nature of people for their interests to change. Open source > projects frequently start and end in this manner. > > > > There are a few issues holding up a release, but a lack of interest from me > isn't one of them. > > If there weren't commits being made almost daily, I would see your point: > https://github.com/ioquake/ioq3/commits/master > > Vincent had a good point about some PR's going stale, but those are being > taken care of. Thanks to him for poking us. > > In order to ship a new release we need to behave more like a game from 2014. > So, there is a new project on our github repository: > https://github.com/ioquake/launch > > At Steam Dev Days I asked Valve about getting ioquake3 onto Steam directly > and was told that we'd need the permission of id/Bethesda/Zenimax, which is > unlikely. So, instead of getting onto Steam we need a Launcher similar to > those used for modern downloadable games that aren't distributed on Steam. > > > > If you're interested in a more modern discussion system, since so few use > this list anymore, please check out: > http://community.ioquake.org/ > > Thanks, > Zachary > > > _______________________________________________ > ioquake3 mailing list > ioquake3@lists.ioquake.org > http://lists.ioquake.org/listinfo.cgi/ioquake3-ioquake.org > By sending this message I agree to love ioquake3 and libsdl. _______________________________________________ ioquake3 mailing list ioquake3@lists.ioquake.org http://lists.ioquake.org/listinfo.cgi/ioquake3-ioquake.org By sending this message I agree to love ioquake3 and libsdl.
