[Pkg-games-devel] I'd like to join

[Miriam Ruiz]

Hi,

welcome :)

I agree in all the points you have mentioned. I guess the 1st steps to do
might be preparing a document with all the relevant points for the project
(you have mentioned some very interesting ones), and maybe set up a wiki for
the easy maintenance of all that stuff, including the web page you mention
about known non-free games.

The next step could be to set up a subversion repository for collaborative
maintenance of some packages. I personally prefer subversion, but I'm open to
other alternatives for a versioning system if we find something better (I know
of some people who prefer distributed ones, I think svn would be enough and
perfect for us).

Greetings,
Miry


 --- Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm at inutil.org> escribió:

> Hi,
> when David Nusinow mentioned a Debian Games group on debian-devel some
> time ago it seemed like a very worthwhile effort and I was about to
> start the same, but lacked the time. So I'm very glad this is happening
> and I'd like to help. Please add me to the Alioth project page, my user
> name is "jmm-guest". (I'm a DD, but too many scripts depend on my old
> -guest user name and I'm too lazy to fix them)
> 
> I'm maintaining prboom, freedoom and lincity-ng and I'm currently
> preparing sponsorships for quake3 and a generic doom-data wad installer,
> for which I'll ask the two sponsered maintainers if they're interested
> in joining as well.
> 
> Beside the points already mentioned in the debian-devel announcement
> I think these points are wortwhile as well:
> 
> - Collaborative maintenance of common infrastructure libs (e.g. SDL has been
>   NMUed four times in a row so far, newer games start to use squirrel for
> level
>   scripting, etc) seems useful as well
> - Collaborative initial packaging of huge new games (e.g. different single
>   maintainers have tried to package the very well-made GPLed Nexuiz
> first-person
>   shooter, but there still hasn't been an outcome, because it's quite a of
>   chunk of work)
> - Games have common licensing problems (there are many good games available,
> which's
>   maintainers don't have much clue about licensing, for those cases where
> the
>   maintainers cannot be persuaded we could at least maintain a Wiki page of
> games
>   known to be not-packagable). pkg-games group could also work on replacing
> non-free
>   bits with DFSG-free content. I have a list of game authors I've already
> contacted
>   for freeness clarification, I'll need to dig it up.
> 
> Cheers,
>         Moritz
> 
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