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

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.

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.


Richard

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On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Jordà Polo <jordaettin.org> wrote:

>  Also, note that BerliOS doesn't support new games or
game-related
>  projects anymore. They rejected Wesnoth a few years
ago because it was a
>  game, and they have rejected other games too[1].

Thanks!

It seems freedesktop is the place to go, unless someone
would prefer
lists d.o.t cross-distro d.o.t org (obfuscated a tad to
prevent archive
spiders from thinking this is worthwhile to reg & if
anyone grabs that
before we reach consensus here, expect to be lart'ed)


Richard

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* Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglistgmail.com> [2008-03-18 09:56:23 CET]:
> 1) Debian servers (will find out if that is OK)

 Would be definitely o.k., but I follow your reasoning of
that it would
sound too much Debian specific and thus should rather be
avoided to not
discourage other people to join in.

> 2) Private Domain

 Would mean a maintenance overhead which isn't really
needed, there is
enough of offers flying around.

> 3) berlios.de et al

 ... personally I would suggest gna.org from which I like
the offerings
quite well. It's savannah from the FSF France which in my
opinion is
pretty much more libre than savannah itself. It feels more
comfortable
to me - but I'm not against a particular site, only I do
dislike the
sf.net mailinglist advertising immensly, especially when it
sends me
microsoft ads. %-/

 So long,
Rhonda

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On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Richard Hartmann
<richih.mailinglistgmail.com> 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.

Excllent idea.

>  As soon as I have some feedback, I would want to go
ahead and create
>  a list. Obvious options for hosting are:

I'd suggest freedesktop.org would be the right place.

A ##games on freenode would be a good idea.

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On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:24:33AM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs
wrote:
>  ... personally I would suggest gna.org from which I
like the offerings
> quite well. It's savannah from the FSF France which in
my opinion is
> pretty much more libre than savannah itself. It feels
more comfortable
> to me - but I'm not against a particular site, only I
do dislike the
> sf.net mailinglist advertising immensly, especially
when it sends me
> microsoft ads. %-/

Also, note that BerliOS doesn't support new games or
game-related
projects anymore. They rejected Wesnoth a few years ago
because it was a
game, and they have rejected other games too[1].
 
 1. http
://tsdgeos.blogspot.com/2005/12/berlios.html

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Richard Hartmann wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Jordà Polo
<jordaettin.org> wrote:
> 
>>  Also, note that BerliOS doesn't support new games
or game-related
>>  projects anymore. They rejected Wesnoth a few
years ago because it was a
>>  game, and they have rejected other games too[1].
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> It seems freedesktop is the place to go, unless someone
would prefer
> lists d.o.t cross-distro d.o.t org (obfuscated a tad to
prevent archive
> spiders from thinking this is worthwhile to reg &
if anyone grabs that
> before we reach consensus here, expect to be lart'ed)

I would prefer gna.org. And is really a viable choice.
Wormux is hosted there and (upstream hat on) 
I have never had issues. Also their trackers look better and
are faster than any other tracker I 
have ever used.

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I have a project here:
http://sour
ceforge.net/projects/freegamer

Could be used for anything Free Software game related.

A cross-distro packing list would be one such ideal usage of
this project.

 -C

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Needless to say anybody who needs it would have full admin
rights.

 - C

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Free Gamer
<freegamerbloggmail.com> wrote:
>  http://sour
ceforge.net/projects/freegamer

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Or of course there is tuxfamily.org... which I have a
freegamer
project there too =D but we use that for freegamedev.net so
would need
another project.

 - C

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