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#debian-games Meeting
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Meeting started by Rhonda at 21:09:15 UTC. The full logs are available
at
http://meetbot.debian.net/debian-games/2011/debian-games.2011-03-18-21.09.log.html
.



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

* wheezy roadmap  (pabs, 21:35:08)
  * IDEA: there was that XDG-support everywhere idea for squeeze by Baby
    -- revive it?  (Zhenech, 21:36:14)
  * IDEA: same clean-up as initiated by goneri in the summer of 2009
    (thekittster, 21:36:58)
  * LINK:
    http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
    (Zhenech, 21:37:20)
  * IDEA: all games with latest upstream version for wheezy  (pabs,
    21:38:46)
  * IDEA: Plan for wheezy should include a meeting several weeks before
    freeze to check for outdated packages in our pool  (Rhonda,
    21:38:56)
  * IDEA: outdated not only with respect to upstream releases but also
    for lintian/policy related changes  (Rhonda, 21:41:00)
  * IDEA: all games should have debtags (for goplay) and (if needed)
    menu&desktop files  (Zhenech, 21:41:42)
  * IDEA: desktop menu file should include more translations  (Fuddl,
    21:42:30)
  * IDEA: screenshots for all of our packages on screenshots.debian.net
    (Rhonda, 21:43:22)
  * IDEA: package some games that can be played on smartphones  (pabs,
    21:43:46)
  * IDEA: look at rewriting GoPlay to be more flashy and figuring out
    its relationship to AppStream  (pabs, 21:45:05)
  * IDEA: get the playdeb folks involved in the team  (pabs, 21:45:33)
  * IDEA: don't only package, also remove old cruft  (Zhenech, 21:45:52)
  * 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)
  * 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)

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

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

* introductions  (pabs, 22:10:15)

Meeting ended at 22:11:13 UTC.




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




Action Items, by person
-----------------------
* pabs
  * pabs volunteers to watch various lists and handhold folks into the
    team until the next meeting
* Zhenech
  * Zhenech will organise the next meeting
  * Zhenech to ping all pkg-games members
* **UNASSIGNED**
  * (none)




People Present (lines said)
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* pabs (85)
* Rhonda (66)
* Zhenech (59)
* Kamping_Kaiser (45)
* Fuddl (38)
* thekittster (36)
* ansgar (15)
* ThibG (11)
* pdewacht (10)
* lincoln (9)
* angasulino (8)
* mase (4)
* MeetBot (4)
* tnnn (4)
* stevecotton (3)
* hansg (3)
* SynrG (2)
* Clint (1)
* lexiyntax (1)




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