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MineClone 2 will switch to a new name, VoxeLibre (git.minetest.land)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (6 children)

It really doesn't, yeah. But the vocal minority decided.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

It was done by a poll on Discord, Matrix, and our issue tracker. I think over 120 votes were cast. It was a polling majority...

[–] [email protected] -3 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Why have a poll on a proprietary closed-source software, though? Why not exclusively in the MT forums where the most users are?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

You seem to not like the name or the things we do. Maybe tell us more about what you like...

We had the poll on Matrix also which is FOSS, and our issue tracker built on Gitea. The minetest forums are notoriously sluggish and many there don't play VoxeLibre. We reached out to players in all areas. The fact remains that 80%+ of our players choose discord and ignoring them is not a helpful. A lot of people do not check the forum frequently, and that policy would be exclusionary and unjustifiably dogmatic.

We make extra efforts to reach out to our members in FOSS communities and do more than most to keep away from non-free software like Github and keep our channels bridged to matrix.

I can assure you the effort is non trivial and takes away from actually writing open source software. Very recently it lost all the data and we had to manually bridge 15+ channels again when I had waay too much other stuff going on. Many projects abandon these bridges because they are unreliable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You seem to not like the name or the things we do. Maybe tell us more about what you like…

I'm a programmer, so by nature I am bad at naming things 😄

I just know what names I don't like ...

For Minetest game names I came up with personal "rules"

Don't name it anything with "test" or "mine" in the name
Don't name it after a game item or a game mechanic
Make the name googleable
Make it easy and unambigous to say

We had the poll on Matrix also which is FOSS, and our issue tracker built on Gitea. [...] The fact remains that 80%+ of our players choose discord

Gitea is corporate-owned nonfree software. (There was a hostile takeover of the project, they also changed to a non-free open core release and made mandatory to remove all copyright headers from changed or newly added files.)

For the Discord debacle: Maybe make it an unrecommended channel and endorse people to use Matrix instead. Everyone who cares even a little bit should not explicitly or implicitly suggest using closed-source or corporate-owned software.

But I guess that's a topic for another discussion ...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Very aware about Gitea, and unfortunately when we tried to migrate to Forgejo on Codeberg, the migration script got stuck in a repeating loop. Apparently it's a known issue and we got very little help with this so unless we abandon all our issues including 850+ open ones, we're in a bit of a pickle.

The new name followed those rules.It's voxel and libre, sharing an L. Only debate is about how people pronounce Libre, and we ain't that precious.

I would love everyone to use Matrix. I created the space and maintained it. We are now up to around 45 users ish. Discord has over 500. In gaming, it just operates at a different scale.

I'm as much of a FOSS enthusiast as you, but when you run big projects, you have to represent more than just your own personal view. You represent your players and contributors. Now and in the future. If you want new FOSS users, you have to reach them where they are. Best way to further FOSS software is to get new people using it. With over 350k downloads. I think we're doing a pretty neat job.

It's tempting to think your views are right and everyone else is wrong, but it's no basis to be functional and collaborative. Are you running any large FOSS communities? Want to share info on how you've done these things and how effective it was?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Semi off-topic naming discussion 🙃

The new name followed those rules.It’s voxel and libre, sharing an L.

Is it Voxe-Libre, Voxel-ibre (not everyone knows that “libre” is a word), or Voxel-Libre, or something else? This is not clear at all for every language that is not English. “Voxe(l)” is also, to a certain extend, a game mechanic. It would be like naming a game using a polygon based engine PolygonRandomame :)

But Since the name change already made it into international news it cannot be changed anymore without causing mor disturbance. People will get used to it like they got used to “Minetest” (which is an absolute stupid name that was never meant to be permanent).

As for the Forgejo issue, have you started a discussion here? You also shouldn’t need a script, because Forgejo can clone from Gitea, including issues if an access token was provided.

https://codeberg.org/repo/migrate?service_type=3&org=&mirror=

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