On 07/19/2016 09:54 PM, Ben Rosser wrote:
Hi games@, Glad to see interest in reviving the Games SIG! I put my name on the interested packagers list and signed up for this mailing list some time ago, but I never really got around to doing that much. I introduced myself briefly on IRC, but here's a more detailed introduction: I am, or rather soon will be, a first-year graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania. I've also been using and playing games on Fedora since F13, back before Steam for Linux was a thing, so I got into several open-source games (primarily, Battle for Wesnoth). I've been a packager for about a year and a half now, and would love to help maintain or review games related packages. One thing I am somewhat interested in, with regard to gaming in Fedora, is making the installation of open-source mods for games easier, especially for games that don't have their own tools to do this sort of thing. Wesnoth, for example, has a centralized repository for addon content and also ships with an in-game tool for installing such content. But then there are games like Minetest with lots of mods that do not have a centralized registry or any way to install them other than downloading sources from github. I am not sure if the solution is drafting packaging guidelines for game mods, although maybe it would be something worth looking into-- at least for specific games? But I think it'd be nice to somehow promote the modding of FOSS games. Ben Rosser
Hey Ben! We talked briefly in IRC, but thought I would also give a reply here. :)
Thanks for introducing yourself here. It will be helpful with your background in packaging to contribute towards improving the gaming experience in Fedora. I like your thoughts on making a centralized method of implementing game mods... while I think that would definitely require a case-by-case implementation for each game, there is probably a smarter or more effective way we can make mods available to gamers. I think trying to create some kind of technical guidelines would be helpful in trying to move towards that, and then packaging a few popular mods in that way as examples for more could be useful. This should definitely be a point worth bringing in. :)
See you in-channel! -- Cheers, Justin W. Flory jflory7@xxxxxxxxx
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