===================== #debian-games Meeting ===================== Meeting started by arand at 09:57:11 UTC. The full logs are available at http://meetbot.debian.net/debian-games/2011/debian-games.2011-06-26-09.57.log.html . Meeting summary --------------- * Introductions (arand, 09:57:48) * From last meeting: http://wiki.debian.org/Games/Meetings/2011-05-29 (arand, 10:07:02) * http://meetbot.debian.net/debian-games/2011/debian-games.2011-05-29-11.03.html (arand, 10:08:08) * Alioth migration - did everyone and everything survive it? (arand, 10:18:26) * PET1 is back up (pabs, 10:18:37) * LINK: http://pkg-games.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/PET/qareport.cgi (pabs, 10:18:50) * PET1 needs a cron job setup, currently displaying old data (pabs, 10:21:05) * documentation regarding packaging (arand, 10:25:27) * This was covered in the "From last meeting" topic (arand, 10:26:48) * Screencasting/game presentations (arand, 10:27:02) * , the Debconf presentations was covered in the "From last meeting" topic (arand, 10:27:34) * recordmydesktop & byzanz were tried, can get some sync issues if not configured properly (recording framerate 2) (pabs, 10:40:07) * audio output can be recorded using alsa (pabs, 10:41:26) * LINK: http://www.earth.li/~noodles/blog/2009/02/recording-application-sound-ou.html (pabs, 10:41:29) * or select Mix as the recording source instead of Mic (pabs, 10:41:54) * glc is another a/v recording option, packaging is ongoing, waiting for upstream (arand, 10:42:42) * ACTION: Rhonda to write a wiki page about presenting games (Games/Present) (arand, 10:51:10) * LiveCDs/Blends with a ready-to-play set of games (arand, 10:54:25) * LINK: http://wiki.debian.org/Games/Blends (pabs, 10:54:41) * Fuddl sent his live DVD configuration to SynrG who played around with it (pabs, 11:03:13) * ACTION: Fuddl to get SynrG to create a repo for the blends configs and add a link to the wiki page about it (pabs, 11:06:32) * FHS regarding /usr/games et. al. (arand, 11:10:05) * LINK: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/games/2011-May/000369.html (arand, 11:10:18) * LINK: https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/fhs-discuss/2011-May/000002.html (arand, 11:10:27) * LINK: http://bugs.linux-foundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=766 (Kamping_Kaiser, 11:12:03) * ACTION: pabs to investigate lintian warnings about deprecated FHS games paths (pabs, 11:14:26) * the next FHS will make games-specific paths deprecated and removed in a future version (pabs, 11:16:37) * currently the majority opinion of the debian games team is neutral (arand, 11:27:17) * Fullscreen/windowed games, policy? (arand, 11:27:59) * LINK: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-games/2011/05/msg00134.html (pabs, 11:29:38) * ACTION: guus to talk about full-screen behaviour on games@lists.freedesktop.org (pabs, 11:38:47) * AGREED: we prefer games to start windowed by default (with fullscreen option) (arand, 11:45:29) * Work with upstream on this (bugs, patches, etc.) (arand, 11:48:33) * How to make sure that users of a graphical desktop environment find the manual (...) of a game? (...) (arand, 11:50:07) * Full topic: How to make sure that users of a graphical desktop environment find the manual (think PDF with images, not a man page that you view from a terminal emulator) of a game? In SDL programs it is often not easy to integrate this to the in-game menu system. (arand, 11:53:21) * ACTION: guus talk about documentation browser (either in-game or out-of-game) on games@lists.freedesktop.org (guus, 12:23:03) * Debtag for "this is a multiplayer game", "this is a single-player game", "this is a multiplayer game with AI"? (arand, 12:24:24) * LINK: http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/ (Kamping_Kaiser, 12:26:41) * ACTION: pabs to start a discussion on the list about extending debtags, documenting the discussion on the wiki and talking to the debtags maintainers about adding the new tags (arand, 12:27:15) * This was mentioned by pabs under the window/fullscreen topic (arand, 12:28:13) * LINK: http://wiki.debian.org/Games/Blends (arand, 12:30:16) * postponing this to mailing list/next meeting (arand, 12:33:04) * Add "/srv/home/groups/pet/PET2/pkg-games/pet-git-helper update ${PACKAGE}.git" to hooks/post-receive in /git/pkg-games/setup-repository? (arand, 12:33:24) * Kamping_Kaiser suspects this is affected by teh alioth split, and will need the same fix as pet1 - a cron job (arand, 12:37:43) * Next meeting (arand, 12:38:24) * LINK: http://wiki.debian.org/Games/Meetings/ Has most of the info (arand, 12:41:03) * ACTION: kornerr will organise the next meeting (Kamping_Kaiser, 12:45:19) * previous organisers are availble to help if required (Kamping_Kaiser, 12:45:28) * make sure to take the dates of debconf into account when setting the date (arand, 12:45:54) Meeting ended at 12:47:43 UTC. Action Items ------------ * Rhonda to write a wiki page about presenting games (Games/Present) * Fuddl to get SynrG to create a repo for the blends configs and add a link to the wiki page about it * pabs to investigate lintian warnings about deprecated FHS games paths * guus to talk about full-screen behaviour on games@lists.freedesktop.org * guus talk about documentation browser (either in-game or out-of-game) on games@lists.freedesktop.org * pabs to start a discussion on the list about extending debtags, documenting the discussion on the wiki and talking to the debtags maintainers about adding the new tags * kornerr will organise the next meeting Action Items, by person ----------------------- * Fuddl * Fuddl to get SynrG to create a repo for the blends configs and add a link to the wiki page about it * guus * guus to talk about full-screen behaviour on games@lists.freedesktop.org * guus talk about documentation browser (either in-game or out-of-game) on games@lists.freedesktop.org * kornerr * kornerr will organise the next meeting * pabs * pabs to investigate lintian warnings about deprecated FHS games paths * pabs to start a discussion on the list about extending debtags, documenting the discussion on the wiki and talking to the debtags maintainers about adding the new tags * Rhonda * Rhonda to write a wiki page about presenting games (Games/Present) * SynrG * Fuddl to get SynrG to create a repo for the blends configs and add a link to the wiki page about it * **UNASSIGNED** * (none) People Present (lines said) --------------------------- * arand (115) * kornerr (105) * pabs (92) * Kamping_Kaiser (66) * ThibG (35) * Fuddl (23) * Rhonda (21) * berarma (20) * guus (18) * SynrG (8) * magnate (6) * pdewacht_ (4) * ansgar (4) * christoph (3) * MeetBot (2) * udienz (1) * marcello^ (1) * gdm (1) Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.1.4 .. _`MeetBot`: http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot