[Pkg-games-devel] Re: Debian Games Team

[Moritz Muehlenhoff]

Bas Wijnen wrote:
> > Another point, some groups use subversion for doing collaborative  
> > maintenance of packages, but I've seen thar some people on the list do not
> > think it might be as good idea as it sounds. Any thought on this?
> 
> Some sort of revision control system will be needed of course.  I haven't
> noticed anyone complaining about subversion, and at least I wouldn't have a
> problem with it.  What sort of problems are you thinking of?

I would have a problem with having to keep every package maintained under
the pkg-games umbrella under SVN. Doing so is a considerable overhead, that
is hardly justified for smaller changes.
SVN will be useful from time to time, e.g. when doing some initial packaging
collaroratively, though.
 
> > As a third point, but it needn't be right now, for doing collaborative
> > maintenance, the best idea I can think of is to use an email address common to
> > the project, which probably means generating a new digital signature and so. I
> > have to find out what other groups do. Any better ideas?
> 
> You mean a signature for Debian-games, or a
> per-collaboratively-maintained-game signature?  I think the latter is more
> useful than the former.

That's not necessary. We should use a Maintainers: field like
Debian Games Team <pkg-games-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
with Uploaders: entries for the DDs, that perform the actual uploads into
the archive. It might be useful to split between the discussion list we're
currently using and a separate mailing list used for the Maintainers: field,
as all bug reports and information about package uploads would otherwise
fill up the regular discussion list.

Cheers,
        Moritz