Re: Reviving the Games SIG

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On Sex, 2016-08-26 at 19:52 +0100, Sérgio Basto wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> On Seg, 2016-08-08 at 11:16 -0400, Justin W. Flory wrote:
> > 
> > On 07/23/2016 06:26 PM, Sérgio Basto wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Hello Paul, Justin
> > > 
> > > I have 2 suggestions one is maintain and update the game wiki
> > > page
> > > .
> > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Games
> > > 
> > > Second suggestion, is new for everyone, and is bring some games
> > > from
> > > RPMFusion to Fedora proper, AFAIK some games there could be in
> > > Fedora
> > > proper (they came from old freshrpms ...) , to have one idea see
> > > this
> > > link [1]. This link will be updated with more one or two games in
> > > next
> > > packages push (at least gtetrinet) ...
> > > 
> > > 
> > > [1] http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/development/rawhid
> > > e/
> > > Everything/source/SRPMS/repoview/amusements.games.group.html
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Best regards,
> > > 
> > Hi Sérgio,
> > 
> > I know Brigham did a lot of work to updating the content on the
> > wiki 
> > page already for the current year, which was definitely helpful. I
> > was 
> > hoping to take my own spin towards it and maybe reorganize the page
> > to 
> > make it more clear / informative for what we're actively working,
> > what 
> > kinds of goals we have as a SIG, as well as make it clear for how
> > others 
> > could get involved. I'm going to try to work on this in the coming
> > week, 
> > and will definitely put any updates here on our mailing list.
> > 
> > I think it makes sense for us to start identifying some more games
> > from 
> > other places that we could bring into Fedora now. I think some of
> > this 
> > discussion has already been happening in the IRC channel, but I'm 
> > unfortunately very behind on a lot of discussion and activity (as
> > you 
> > can probably guess by the fact that I'm replying to this email
> > now).
> > 
> > Perhaps it would be helpful for us to find a meeting time once a
> > week
> > or 
> > once every other week where we can work on finding targets and
> > areas
> > to 
> > focus on together, while we're all at the keyboard. Curious to know
> > what 
> > you all think!
> Sorry for late reply, unfortunately games are my lower priority, but
> yes
> have an well organized game library is good, so please update wiki
> page
> as you like, I also am a little newer in this Mailing List . 
> 
> In meantime, I take care of tetrinetx. 
> 
> For a better organization bring games that we can from RPMFusion [1]
> to
> Fedora proper can be good  but it will take a lot of work ,
> especially
> if we bring one by one, check license, package review , approve, and
> retire in RPMfusion ... if we could do this in a bulk, I would
> prefer .
>  
> About focus, many games have stopped the development and we just can
> build it with deprecated software, I mean for example ltris that use
> SDL1, many others still in gtk2, if we can have expertises in these
> areas (SDL, qt4, gtk2, gnome2, sound output etc), 

and migrate deprecated software for newer versions 

> we can make our life
> simpler.  



> [1] 
> http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/development/25/Everything/
> so
> urce/SRPMS/repoview/amusements.games.group.html
> 
> Thanks,
-- 
Sérgio M. B.

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