#debian-games Meeting

Meeting started by Rhonda at 21:09:15 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

  1. reviving the games team (pabs, 21:10:28)
    1. AGREED: the games team has been pretty inactive and we need to change that (pabs, 21:12:04)
    2. AGREED: We'll try to start with monthly meetings and see how it turns out (Rhonda, 21:14:33)
    3. AGREED: Meeting times should get rotated to make it easy for people from different timezones to attend at least sometimes. (Rhonda, 21:21:00)
    4. ACTION: Zhenech will organise the next meeting (pabs, 21:21:44)
    5. IDEA: streamlining sponsorship (pabs, 21:28:54)
    6. IDEA: bug squashing parties (pabs, 21:29:05)
    7. IDEA: more fun! (pabs, 21:29:17)
    8. http://wiki.debian.org/Games/Parties (Rhonda, 21:31:56)
    9. IDEA: make it clear what team maintenance means (allowed packaging changes etc) (pabs, 21:32:37)

  2. wheezy roadmap (pabs, 21:35:08)
    1. IDEA: there was that XDG-support everywhere idea for squeeze by Baby -- revive it? (Zhenech, 21:36:14)
    2. IDEA: same clean-up as initiated by goneri in the summer of 2009 (thekittster, 21:36:58)
    3. http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html (Zhenech, 21:37:20)
    4. IDEA: all games with latest upstream version for wheezy (pabs, 21:38:46)
    5. IDEA: Plan for wheezy should include a meeting several weeks before freeze to check for outdated packages in our pool (Rhonda, 21:38:56)
    6. IDEA: outdated not only with respect to upstream releases but also for lintian/policy related changes (Rhonda, 21:41:00)
    7. IDEA: all games should have debtags (for goplay) and (if needed) menu&desktop files (Zhenech, 21:41:42)
    8. IDEA: desktop menu file should include more translations (Fuddl, 21:42:30)
    9. IDEA: screenshots for all of our packages on screenshots.debian.net (Rhonda, 21:43:22)
    10. IDEA: package some games that can be played on smartphones (pabs, 21:43:46)
    11. IDEA: look at rewriting GoPlay to be more flashy and figuring out its relationship to AppStream (pabs, 21:45:05)
    12. IDEA: get the playdeb folks involved in the team (pabs, 21:45:33)
    13. IDEA: don't only package, also remove old cruft (Zhenech, 21:45:52)
    14. IDEA: For the package care days (explenation and squashing), get some random script so that they aren't hand-selected, and that we might be able to find cruft through that (Rhonda, 21:46:56)
    15. IDEA: recommendations of 5-10 games that are most fun, as in a "new users start here to feel good about what Debian has" (stevecotton, 21:47:01)

  3. recruiting/accepting new members (pabs, 21:49:21)
    1. IDEA: before recruiting, get a firm overview who is still active in here (Zhenech, 21:49:56)
    2. IDEA: clarify the mailing lists' roles, new people get confused and frustrated (thekittster, 21:50:52)
    3. ACTION: Zhenech to ping all pkg-games members (pabs, 21:53:44)
    4. please base your pings on lack of SVN/git/list activity (Zhenech, 21:54:54)
    5. IDEA: encourage new members to pick a (forgotten) package to look after (thekittster, 21:55:57)
    6. IDEA: clarify what it means to join the team and who can respond "officially" (thekittster, 21:56:33)
    7. IDEA: start doing Debian games team parties http://wiki.debian.org/Games/Parties (pabs, 21:57:58)
    8. IDEA: talk to mentors.d.n to auto-ping us on section:games uploads (Zhenech, 21:58:03)
    9. ACTION: pabs volunteers to watch various lists and handhold folks into the team until the next meeting (pabs, 22:01:37)

  4. packaging policy update (pabs, 22:02:24)
    1. http://wiki.debian.org/Games/ToolsDiscuss (pabs, 22:04:53)
    2. http://wiki.debian.org/Games/Policy (Zhenech, 22:04:54)
    3. IDEA: finish migrating to git? (thekittster, 22:04:58)
    4. IDEA: move to debhelper 7's rules.tiny style (pabs, 22:09:39)

  5. introductions (pabs, 22:10:15)


Meeting ended at 22:11:13 UTC (full logs).

Action items

  1. Zhenech will organise the next meeting
  2. Zhenech to ping all pkg-games members
  3. pabs volunteers to watch various lists and handhold folks into the team until the next meeting


Action items, by person

  1. pabs
    1. pabs volunteers to watch various lists and handhold folks into the team until the next meeting
  2. Zhenech
    1. Zhenech will organise the next meeting
    2. Zhenech to ping all pkg-games members


People present (lines said)

  1. pabs (85)
  2. Rhonda (66)
  3. Zhenech (59)
  4. Kamping_Kaiser (45)
  5. Fuddl (38)
  6. thekittster (36)
  7. ansgar (15)
  8. ThibG (11)
  9. pdewacht (10)
  10. lincoln (9)
  11. angasulino (8)
  12. mase (4)
  13. MeetBot (4)
  14. tnnn (4)
  15. stevecotton (3)
  16. hansg (3)
  17. SynrG (2)
  18. Clint (1)
  19. lexiyntax (1)


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