On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 13:37 +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > Hi! > > Keeping Philip in cc as I'm not sure wether he's subscribed, hope you > don't mind. :) > lol, I certainly did not mind and yes I am subscribed to the list. > First, thanks to Philip for the suggestions and good idea. I'll comment > on persia's thoughts: > > * Emmet Hikory <emmet.hikory@gmail.com> [2009-05-01 08:41:46 CEST]: > > a) Setting pkg-games-devel@l.a.d.o as the contact for the team > > > > This would send any launchpad mail generated for the team (from bug > > subscriptions, PPA updates, etc.) to the mailing list, rather than team > > members. > > I really would also like to have it a seperate list so that people can > actively decide wether they want to receive those notifications > additionally or not. As you know I track the ubuntu bugs for wesnoth > pretty well (hopefully) and have subscribed to launchpad - but it would > be helpful for the bigger picture to have it in a specific list. One can > always copy the mail over to th pkg-games-devel@l.a.d.o if they believe > that it affects Debian directly. More often it is, but still, keeping it > seperate makes sense and feels less pushing. > > This would be the only thing that I guess Alain's response might be > rooted in, I'm not sure what else could have stirred Alain up; > especially for the pkg-games team, not sure how much interaction he had > in our team. :) > > > b) Setting the team as a bug contact for all the packages maintained by > > the team. > > > > This would generate bugmail for any bugs reported against Ubuntu, > > and provide a bug report summary (3) for review by any team members > > looking for Ubuntu bugs. If done without (a) above, such bugmail would > > be sent to each team member individually, rather than to a list. > > The summary overview would be the thing I use, so even if we want (and > I guess we do want) the sepearte list this fits my personal workflow > very much better. ... if only "bts cache" would exist for launchpad, or > is there something like that? That would definitely rock. > > Overall statement: Given that the ubuntu people joined the debian games > team to only have the need for sync requests instead of carrying ubuntu > patches in the packages it should be in ours (Debian's) interest to get > notifications from there to improve the package for our combined user > base - after all for only synced packages it's rather uncommon to have > ubuntu-specific bugs. > Yes, an ubuntu specific bug would be uncommon. With the teams merging to be Debian alone it's all about games in Debian and then the packages move over to ubuntu. The information from ubuntu would I hope only improve games for both distros and widen their use. Regards Phil
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