Re: RFC: A truly cross-distro game packaging list (was: Re: Chromium BSU upstream developers needed!

Richard Hartmann wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 7:37 AM, Paul Wise <pabsdebian.org> wrote:
> 
>>  > I'd like to add interested people to the
project so they can commit
>>  > patches from their distros or that they have
created. If you are
>>  > interested, please let me know what your
sourceforge login is.
> 
> I want to propose to create a cross-distro game mailing
list. I know
> the idea has been floating around a few times, but
nothing seems to be
> happening. What I have in mind is a place to share
interesting patches,
> hot new games, critical holes, try and get ahold of
elusive upstreams by
> help of people who already have a package & thus
contact and whatnot.
> 
> I would especially be interested in the opinions of
non-Debian people if
> they would have any interest in joining such a list.
Feel free to
> snowball the idea around your respective lists, as
well.
> 

I'm very much interested in joining such a list (and I must
admit then 
unsubscribe from debian-devel-games)

> As soon as I have some feedback, I would want to go
ahead and create
> a list. Obvious options for hosting are:
> 
> 1) Debian servers (will find out if that is OK)
> 2) Private Domain
> 3) berlios.de et al
> 
> On a hunch, I would go for berlios as 1) might bias the
list towards
> Debian, which I do not want and while 2) is trivial, it
is usually
> better to use domains that are with large entities, not
with single
> people. I prefer berlios.de over sf.net as it reeks
less of dying
> dinosaur and over google code as google's list
subscription processing
> and their user support are a black hole.
> 

1 and 3 are fine with me, 2 is a bit tricky as contributers
tend to come and go 
over time.

Regards,

Hans (the Fedora games dude)


p.s.

You should really also invite Toni (oc2pus) from packman
<tonilinks2linux.de> 
he does lots of suse game packages

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CC'ing tonilinks2linux.de, partial self-quote for his benefit

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Hans de Goede
<j.w.r.degoedehhs.nl> wrote:
> Richard Hartmann wrote:

>  > I want to propose to create a cross-distro game
mailing list. I know
>  > the idea has been floating around a few times,
but nothing seems to be
>  > happening. What I have in mind is a place to
share interesting patches,
>  > hot new games, critical holes, try and get ahold
of elusive upstreams by
>  > help of people who already have a package &
thus contact and whatnot.

>  I'm very much interested in joining such a list (and I
must admit then
>  unsubscribe from debian-devel-games)

No problem. That is what the list is there for 


>  > 1) Debian servers (will find out if that is OK)
>  > 2) Private Domain
>  > 3) berlios.de et al

>  1 and 3 are fine with me, 2 is a bit tricky as
contributers tend to come and go
>  over time.

I tend to stick to stuff and a non-moderared member-only ML
runs itself, but yah
that is the point.


>  You should really also invite Toni (oc2pus) from
packman <tonilinks2linux.de>
>  he does lots of suse game packages

Done.


Richard

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