Gobby

gobby.debian.org debconf12/bof/games

Intro

Fun and games are an essential part of any operating system and the games team aims to bring these to Debian and our users. This BoF aims to help achieve that.

Come meet the games team, discuss our past, present, plans and future directions.

Activities

Packaging games
 * wheezy: 304 (327) source packages, 627 (668) binary packages in total in main (+ contrib/non-free)
Accumulating packages and RC bugs ;)
IRC meetings
(screenshots) Party(ies)
 * screenshots.debian.net
 * used in software-center, on packages website, Blends sentinel
LiveCD/Blend
Videocast :D
 * short introduction of gameplay
 * URL
 * mentioning useful information:
   - singleplayer/multiplayer
   - local/networked
   - ...
 * summary at end with URL again
Source form discussions
Ideas?

Links

http://wiki.debian.org/Games/Team
http://wiki.debian.org/Games/Development#GetInvolved
http://pet.debian.net/pkg-games/pet.cgi
http://udd.debian.org/dmd.cgi?email=pkg-games-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org
http://wiki.debian.org/Games/Meetings
http://wiki.debian.org/Games/Parties
http://wiki.debian.org/Games/Parties/Screenshots
http://wiki.debian.org/Games/Blends
http://blends.alioth.debian.org/games/tasks/
  --> source is at svn://svn.debian.org/svn/blends/projects/games/trunk/debian-games/tasks
      any DD has commit permissions. Please enhance!!!
  --> doc is at http://blends.alioth.debian.org/blends/ch-sentinel.en.html
http://wiki.debian.org/Games/Live
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Games/Upstream#Source

Discussion

games and downloading data

ryzom 8GB rsync on startup

data.debian.org
 - needs work in dak
 - separate mirror network
 - Debian med team also interested

server for network games
 - usually an upstream one (backports)
 - but need support for stable versions
 - talk to DSA about a VM

backports?
 - wesnoth is in backports
 - warzone2100 had some in the past

livecd
 - linux gamers
 - ben armstrong's work on http://wiki.debian.org/Games/Live

source forms
 - very old discussion
 - comes down to equality between Debian's users and upstream developers