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

[Hans de Goede]

Richard Hartmann wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 7:37 AM, Paul Wise <pabs at debian.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 <toni at links2linux.de> 
he does lots of suse game packages