Frozen Bubble 2 2.2.0-1maemo4-1

Pop out the bubbles! Frozen-Bubble is a clone of the popular "Puzzle Bobble" game, in which you attempt to shoot bubbles into groups of the same color to cause them to pop. It features 100 single-player levels, a two-player mode, music and striking graphics. This game is widely rumored to be responsible for delaying the Debian Woody release. URL: http://www.frozen-bubble.org/
Section:
user/games
Size:
180394 bytes
MD5sum:
e1b467112f3183917587678e5a7cc5b5
Status:
Promotion rejected
QA Quarantine ends:
ENDED 2010-08-15 14:45
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Changes

VersionChangesAuthorDate
2.2.0-1maemo4-1 * Reuploaded due to obvious reasonsMohammad Abu-Garbeyyeh2010-08-05 12:56 UTC

Package karma

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TesterKarmaTimestamp
George Ruinelli (358)
2011-07-13 09:27 UTC
Harald Schmitt (Tester) (785)
2010-08-10 10:46 UTC
Ivan Galvez Junquera (Tester) (981)
2010-08-09 14:15 UTC
Timo P (Tester) (831)
2010-08-06 08:40 UTC
Andreas Anckar (Tester) (259)
2010-08-06 08:12 UTC
Floriano Scioscia (Tester) (360)
2010-08-05 17:15 UTC

Package events

Event typeUserTimestamp
Promotion rejectedSystem2010-08-15 14:46 UTC
Package is in testingSystem2010-08-05 14:45 UTC

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George Ruinelli
Karma: 358

Thank you very much for porting this great game to Maemo!

Please could you try to optify it? The package frozen-bubble or frozen-bubble-data seem to use more than 3MB of rootfs. I had to uninstall it as my rootfs gets too full :( I suggest just to move the data files to /opt and create a symbolic link to /usr .

2011-07-13 09:29 UTC
Andrew Flegg
Karma: 3342

This package seems to have been treated VERY harshly by a number of testers who have not left comments.

1) As Attila says, the dependencies are part of the rootfs and are not additionally installed. The fact that people have thumbed down for this is very worrying about the competence of them to be super-testers.

2) XB-Maemo-Upgrade-Description is not recommended for packagers due to the well known (and obvious deficiencies). The lack of it is certainly not a blocker to promotion.

3) Explaining how to quit could be considered a blocker, although there are easy mechanisms in Maemo for force-quitting an application. The easiest solution would be to add an explanation to the package Description.

That the attitude, thumbs down and comments on this package have led to one of the community's leading developers to leave this in -devel should be considered a problem.

2010-12-30 17:00 UTC

perl-modules will be optified, as for the rest, don't bother, I'm keeping this in -devel even if they all get optified.

2010-08-15 16:53 UTC
Attila Csipa
Karma: 1430

Just a small note - perl, libsdl and similar are part of the Nokia firmware release/repos. The best we can do is file enhancement requests for those, but they are IMO not an optification fail blocker (just as depending on Qt isn't).

2010-08-15 14:24 UTC

The amount of space needed in rootFS by its dependencies is an absolutely blocker for the promotion.

2010-08-09 14:15 UTC
Andreas Anckar
Karma: 259

I agree with comma being a bad decision. On my keyboard (scandinavian) comma is a blue shift key so it's apparently not even accessible during the game (only way to quit is terminating program).

Otherwise a great game!

Another thing which may not be related to the game itself (which is optified). The dependencies (esp. perl and perl-modules) take up some 15+ mb rootfs space! I haven't needed these before, seems like a big sacrifice for this one app.

2010-08-06 08:11 UTC
Attila Csipa
Karma: 1430

In case the application requires a non-obvious way (platform-wise) of exiting, I would suggest flashing a Hildon information box or banner on startup (the yellow thingies). That requires minimum code intervention and let's the user know what's up.

2010-08-05 20:46 UTC
Floriano Scioscia
Karma: 360

See bug report, mapping Esc to comma is a problematic choice.

By the way, please use the XB-Maemo-Upgrade-Description field in your Debian control file, so that the changelog is actually visible in Maemo.org site, both for the QA process and for users in Maemo Extras download pages.

2010-08-05 19:59 UTC

See bug report, I changed keys two (or three?) versions ago, as shown in the changelog.

2010-08-05 17:52 UTC
Floriano Scioscia
Karma: 360

Critical bug: no proper way to quit! No key for exiting. One must forcibly terminate the program.

More details on bug report at https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11075

2010-08-05 17:45 UTC
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