#debian-games Meeting
Meeting started by arand at 09:59:05 UTC
(full logs).
Meeting summary
- Introductions (arand, 10:00:08)
- Action items from last meeting (arand, 10:07:49)
- http://meetbot.debian.net/debian-games/2011/debian-games.2011-08-07-11.59.html
(arand,
10:08:06)
- FHS/LSB infrastructure has been down due to the
kernel.org intrusion, so pabs did not investigate lintian warnings
about /usr/games (pabs,
10:09:39)
- item #2, this is regarding the usegae of
"games" in paths, for example /usr/lib/games instead of
/usr/lib (arand,
10:12:39)
- the decision on depracation is not final
(arand,
10:13:26)
- #3 commit acces to all DDs, alioth
issues? (arand,
10:18:14)
- ACTION: arand to
contact alioth about giving all DDs commit acces. (arand,
10:21:52)
- #4 SynrG to talk to debian-women who have
recently had a series of successful meetings to expand membership.
looks like the meeting would be mostly social/indoctrination, not
technical (arand,
10:22:42)
- http://wiki.debian.org/IRC/debian-meeting
(pabs,
10:23:17)
- ACTION: pabs to
organise a games team public meeting with
http://wiki.debian.org/IRC/debian-meeting (pabs,
10:26:12)
- #5 next debian games meeting organizer should
try to appoint a meeting with Pleft and let everyone choose time in
there. on the next meeting we will all share our experience and
decide if we are ready to move, or it's too early, or everybody
hates Pleft (arand,
10:26:51)
- arand forgot to use pleft this time around,
should be attempted next meeting (arand,
10:27:49)
- ACTION: next debian
games meeting organizer should try to appoint a meeting with Pleft
and let everyone choose time in there. on the next meeting we will
all share our experience and decide if we are ready to move, or it's
too early, or everybody hates Pleft (arand,
10:28:03)
- #6 How to package a game if it depends on
unstable/unreleased versions of non-standard libraries? (arand,
10:29:06)
- one should contact dependency devs and talk to
them (arand,
10:29:20)
- ACTION: arand to
should contact dependency devs and talk to them about games
depending on unstable/unreleased versions of non-standard
libraries (arand,
10:35:08)
- (arand, 10:40:42)
- New members, recruiting, advertising, experiences? (arand, 10:40:50)
- http://meetbot.debian.net/debian-games/2011/debian-games.2011-03-18-21.09.html
(arand,
10:43:36)
- pabs and others did some watching various lists
and handholding folks into the team. it worked well but required a
lot of effort (pabs,
10:44:23)
- eventually I stopped doing it due to there
being so many games RFS mails (pabs,
10:45:09)
- Zhenech did ping all inactive members of
pkg-games but got no replies at all (IIRC) (pabs,
10:45:45)
- IDEA: swap the next
meeting for one of these: wiki.debian.org/Games/Parties (arand,
10:48:38)
- IDEA: Games Party
topic: screenshots of games (arand,
10:53:27)
- ACTION: ask around if
anyone wants t organise a Debian Games Team screenshotting
party. (arand,
11:00:32)
- ACTION: aand to
organise a Debian Games Team screenshotting party. (arand,
11:02:40)
- IDEA: organise
something for upcoming conferences talk/BOF/workshop/party, focus on
games being FUN :) (arand,
11:15:07)
- https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2011-November/001345.html
(luk,
11:16:15)
- https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2011-November/001345.html
(luk,
11:16:48)
- there is a 'Open Source Game Development'
developer room at Fosdem (pabs,
11:16:52)
- Wheezy Roadmap (arand, 11:20:18)
- ttp://meetbot.debian.net/debian-games/2011/debian-games.2011-03-18-21.09.html
(arand,
11:20:30)
- http://meetbot.debian.net/debian-games/2011/debian-games.2011-03-18-21.09.html
(arand,
11:20:40)
- IDEA: Use
opengles (arand,
11:22:44)
- IDEA: xz
compression (arand,
11:22:55)
- SDL 1.3 around June may be too late for
Wheezy (arand,
11:27:08)
- AGREED: SDL 1.3 as
default for Wheezy (arand,
11:38:36)
- IDEA: use gnome games
menu sections (arand,
11:44:02)
- GNOME 3 shell menu icons are ugly due to
scaling, we need to create SVG or large PNG icons (pabs,
11:51:55)
- IDEA: start a wiki page
with the Wheezy roadmap (arand,
11:53:49)
- ACTION: arand to
create a wiki page Games/Wheezy (arand,
11:55:05)
- Sponsorship (arand, 11:58:28)
- IDEA: Better
integration debexpo <-> sponsors/queue (use reviews;
make/request a "games" filter on debexpo?) (arand,
11:58:48)
- IDEA: Replace
Games/Sponsor/Queue with PET? (arand,
11:58:56)
- queue seems to work ok, no strong opinions on
either idea (arand,
12:11:03)
- PlayDeb (arand, 12:11:31)
- IDEA: Push new packages
and package updates there? (arand,
12:11:50)
- IDEA: Integration of
playdeb packages into Debian? (arand,
12:11:57)
- IDEA: Integration of
playdeb people into DGT? (arand,
12:12:03)
- pabs had success pushing one warzone2100
version into playdeb, but they still forked the package in
unnecessary ways (pabs,
12:12:24)
- playdeb has some games that are not in
Debian (pabs,
12:13:09)
- http://www.playdeb.net/about/
(pabs,
12:22:34)
- http://www.playdeb.net/about/
(pabs,
12:22:56)
- Next Meeting (arand, 12:30:35)
- no takers for organising the next meeting, keep
a look out for anyone interested (arand,
12:39:40)
Meeting ended at 12:40:44 UTC
(full logs).
Action items
- arand to contact alioth about giving all DDs commit acces.
- pabs to organise a games team public meeting with http://wiki.debian.org/IRC/debian-meeting
- next debian games meeting organizer should try to appoint a meeting with Pleft and let everyone choose time in there. on the next meeting we will all share our experience and decide if we are ready to move, or it's too early, or everybody hates Pleft
- arand to should contact dependency devs and talk to them about games depending on unstable/unreleased versions of non-standard libraries
- ask around if anyone wants t organise a Debian Games Team screenshotting party.
- aand to organise a Debian Games Team screenshotting party.
- arand to create a wiki page Games/Wheezy
Action items, by person
- arand
- arand to contact alioth about giving all DDs commit acces.
- arand to should contact dependency devs and talk to them about games depending on unstable/unreleased versions of non-standard libraries
- arand to create a wiki page Games/Wheezy
- pabs
- pabs to organise a games team public meeting with http://wiki.debian.org/IRC/debian-meeting
- UNASSIGNED
- next debian games meeting organizer should try to appoint a meeting with Pleft and let everyone choose time in there. on the next meeting we will all share our experience and decide if we are ready to move, or it's too early, or everybody hates Pleft
- ask around if anyone wants t organise a Debian Games Team screenshotting party.
- aand to organise a Debian Games Team screenshotting party.
People present (lines said)
- arand (144)
- pabs (95)
- sam (46)
- mase (37)
- helmut (30)
- luk (27)
- BigMc (16)
- SynrG (13)
- rey_ (9)
- benonsoftware (5)
- ansgar (4)
- RainCT (3)
- Fuddl (3)
- ol (3)
- MeetBot (2)
- Marcon (2)
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