Quoting: anewson

Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: anewsonPro CoC wants to change the norms around abusive behaviour and language in the kernel dev community (which goes right up to Torvalds). Con CoC is worried this empowers moderators to exclude developers who don't share their ideological views. The former goal is laudible, and the latter concern is justified (eg Johnathan Haidt's work on academia).

This CoC simply codifies the powers Linux maintainers have had all along. The "Con CoC" crowd seem to have trouble understanding this basic fact. Could be because they'd rather just keep fighting the scary SJW cabal that keeps taking away their toys.

That may be true; indeed my own bias is that it simply reflects changes happening within the community and has effect beyond a signal of change. However, it may also be true that, as Con worries, that the act of codifying it increases the ability of moderators to exclude contributors in practice (much easier to do so when there's an official document you can use to justify your actions)

It could also make it more difficult to exclude contributors in practice. Before, maintainers could do as they saw fit (within reason), while now they are required to adhere to a common code of conduct. In any case, this document officially gives them the right to potentially remove disruptive contributors but it doesn't force them to do so.

Quoting: Dolus

Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: DolusOh? The Linux maintainer's were wont to harass people for stats they posted on social media? More than half a decade ago at that? This "everything is ok" and "this is not a big deal" crap rings hollow. People ARE leaving Linux over this.

That controversy was already ongoing before the CoC was implemented. Cause does not follow effect.

Do YOU think he should be drummed out of contributing for what he posted seven years ago. Yes or no.

Can't say. I'm not in the habit of forming knee-jerk opinions based on quotes and snippets. I do believe in taking responsibility for your words and actions though, and if people in the kernel community do not feel comfortable working with him, I guess they have the right to say so. Also, you'd think that if someone wrote something years ago that they don't agree with anymore, they could easily correct this situation by saying so. However, if their opinion hasn't changed, your point about the time span is meaningless.

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Quoting: Dolus

Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: anewsonPro CoC wants to change the norms around abusive behaviour and language in the kernel dev community (which goes right up to Torvalds). Con CoC is worried this empowers moderators to exclude developers who don't share their ideological views. The former goal is laudible, and the latter concern is justified (eg Johnathan Haidt's work on academia).

This CoC simply codifies the powers Linux maintainers have had all along. The "Con CoC" crowd seem to have trouble understanding this basic fact. Could be because they'd rather just keep fighting the scary SJW cabal that keeps taking away their toys.

Oh? The Linux maintainer's were wont to harass people for stats they posted on social media? More than half a decade ago at that? This "everything is ok" and "this is not a big deal" crap rings hollow. People ARE leaving Linux over this.

That controversy was already ongoing before the CoC was implemented. Cause does not follow effect.

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Quoting: anewsonPro CoC wants to change the norms around abusive behaviour and language in the kernel dev community (which goes right up to Torvalds). Con CoC is worried this empowers moderators to exclude developers who don't share their ideological views. The former goal is laudible, and the latter concern is justified (eg Johnathan Haidt's work on academia).

This CoC simply codifies the powers Linux maintainers have had all along. The "Con CoC" crowd seem to have trouble understanding this basic fact. Could be because they'd rather just keep fighting the scary SJW cabal that keeps taking away their toys.

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Quoting: GuestSo has it been confirmed yet that Butcher is 100% broken for everyone using the steam version? because my GOG copy works just fine on a fully up to date system

It does seem to rather irk me, because while I don't mind the option to run the game on Proton instead, linux users should ALWAYS continue to have the option to run a native build

Removing that native build altogether is a stupid move, as there might be a lot of people out there who can still play it just fine on thier linux machines dispite the developer claiming it as "broken"

Really want more clarification from the developer.

See the update at the top of the article. The game was only broken for some users and the native version has been restored.

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Quoting: lucifertdark

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: XicronicFrom Coraline Ada Ehmke (writer of the CoC):

"Some people are saying that the Contributor Covenant is a political document, and they’re right."

If the author of the CoC admitting it is a political document made to out people she doesn't like doesn't convince you, I don't know what will. Maybe look at Opal and Ruby as examples?

https://twitter.com/CoralineAda/status/1041465346656530432 [External Link]

Please cite where you took the part made bold by me is from.

What's HIS real name?

Should we care? I don't know the name you were born with, or more importantly, what you've got in your pants. Does that mean you're evil?

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Quoting: XicronicIf the author of the CoC admitting it is a political document made to out people she doesn't like

There. I struck out the part she clearly didn't say or mean. As if this would even give her the power to "out" anyone.

And yes, anything that concerns project policy is political by definition.

Quoting: TheSHEEEP

Quoting: einherjarI fully understand him. The CoC is made by the person saying that:

I can’t wait for the mass exodus from Linux now that it’s been infiltrated by SJWs. Hahahah

after the CoC was taken to the Linux kernel.

Source [External Link]

This unfortunately sounds rather true.

Even though it's clearly sarcasm? Or trolling like silmeth above puts it.

In any case, you can all relax. The CoC doesn't give any power to anyone who isn't a maintainer of a Linux subsystem or module, and then only within their domain, and becoming a maintainer requires the same amount of expertise as ever. Nothing has changed with regard to meritocracy or the lack of.

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Quoting: razing32Hmm , is it just me or is the art eerily reminiscent of Machinarium ?

Not really. Just look at screenshots and you'll notice a clear difference in style.

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Quoting: appetrosyanThe resulting "native" binary ran worse than through wine: it was crash-happy, it gave about 1/3 framerate, and half the graphical options didn't work at all. Naturally everyone was outraged [...]

I wasn't outraged. I waited for a while until VP put out a few patches and smoothed out the worst kinks. I enjoyed playing it just fine. It was still not perfect, but after the fixes it wasn't the worst port I'd seen, wrapped or not. You can easily see the progress they made by searching for articles on the game here on GOL.

I think Witcher 2 was VP's first properly demanding port and they might have simply been too optimistic with the schedule. You seem to only remember the drama and forget that we eventually got a decent port of a great game. VP did their job.

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Quoting: lucifertdarkThis moderating of speech is only going to get worse & one day YOU, yes all of YOU reading this will be on the wrong end of it, because some Social Just-us Wheenie Participation Trophy Winner didn't like the way you said something & reported you to the moderator & they agreed with them.

Funny how this has never been a problem for me. I guess I don't go out of my way to offend people. You can capitalize words all you want, but what you said is baseless FUD.

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: appetrosyanSDL versions are even worse: it's the same kind of indirection, simply less flexible and far less maintainable. Why do we insist that a compiled closed-source POSIX executable is better than an interpreted foreign one?

The SDL dig doesn't make sense, but of course a closed source native build is better than a closed source "interpreted" one, if everything else is equal. ("Interpreted" in quotes because Wine isn't really an interpreter.)

A bad native Linux port VS a good wrap job is a bit different, but this doesn't mean the wrapper is the better technical solution. Using one is simpler than writing a truly portable game though, especially if you don't really know your target platform, and it might work just fine. Or it might not.

See my rationale is, Linux changes fast and by a lot. So if you want your old games to conform to a new standard, eg. wayland, if you have a very good interpreter you only need to modify it, and since wine is FOSS, that's not a problem.

Linux does change (for the better) and this seems to happen relatively fast, but in reality every bigger change takes months or years of groundwork and libraries like SDL and the various audio solutions can easily keep up. For Wayland support, you'd have to rebuild your game with a version of SDL2 from the last couple of years, or a modern release of GLFW if that's what you prefer. Wine doesn't support Wayland by the way.

If your main game logic is properly platform agnostic and you don't tie yourself to a platform by exclusively using D3D, Metal or similar, you'll find plenty of open source compatibility libraries (with stable APIs) to handle platform differences for you. As the developer, you carry the burden of long-term support as long as you sell the game, but that's how it's supposed to be. You might even have to rebuild your game on more modern libraries every few years. When you eventually stop supporting it, open sourcing would be the ideal way to go.

Of course, all this is off topic. The problem Transhuman has is that they'd need to move their game over to a newer Unity release to fix a bug. I've never used Unity, but seems like the engine doesn't exactly make it simple.

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