On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 12:22:43PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > Hi all, > > I propose we do the first Debian Games party soon: > > http://wiki.debian.org/Games/Parties > > Are there any general comments on this idea? Good idea! But might I suggest that the name is confusing? A "games party" sounds like we get together and play games. Not such a bad idea either, but here we want people who actually do some work. ;-) > I propose we base the first party around generating screenshots for > all the games in Debian sid since it doesn't require many skills. > > Here is the TODO list to make this happen: > > http://wiki.debian.org/Games/Parties/Screenshots Sounds good. > Any thoughts on these questions or volunteers for the other items? > > Especially a volunteer for the web-based tool would be ideal. I can make one. I'll dump some first thoughts of how it should look, so people can complain beforehand if it isn't useful. :-) - The server side will have a DB, of course. No access control is attempted, I just assume everyone is of good faith. (There may be a password which is given out on IRC to reduce spam). - On the page is a list of games with their state and claims, plus comments. - Users can change the state of a package, and/or add/remove claims. - Multiple claims on one package are possible. However, if this happens, the user will be warned. This is to allow people to take over work of appearantly non-active people without needing to purge their comments. - It would probably be nice to combine the page with an IRC bot for notifications. However, I have no experience with IRC bots at all, so that will not work unless someone will implement it. - Most likely I will program the server side as a CGI script in bash, with a plain-text DB. Client side will be HTML and javascript (Ecma262+DOM), of course. Possible package states: 0 - needs screenshot 1 - has screenshot 2 - has approved screenshot 3 - has screenshot in the archive Initially all packages should be in state 0 or 3. Names used for claiming should be IRC nicks. There could be a comment field on the package and one on the name. Thanks, Bas -- I encourage people to send encrypted e-mail (see http://www.gnupg.org). If you have problems reading my e-mail, use a better reader. Please send the central message of e-mails as plain text in the message body, not as HTML and definitely not as MS Word. Please do not use the MS Word format for attachments either. For more information, see http://a82-93-13-222.adsl.xs4all.nl/e-mail.html
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