Re: Debian Games Parties!
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 9:46 PM, Bas Wijnen wrote:
> I used the list of games from qa.debian.org/developer.php where the
> games team is maintainer; I suppose that's all we need?
I had intended to make it about all games in Debian, so section games
or stuff with debtags that indicates a game.
>> > - 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.
>>
>> Hmm, OK. I was thinking something Web2.0 like django/pylons/RoR &
>> jquery.
>
> Even though this "Web2.0" thing is around for some time now, I still
> don't really know what it is. ;-) Anyway, bash is fine for cgi
> scripting in general, but awful for handling POST data. So I've now
> used python, which has a module for that. :-)
Welll, in this case it would mean zero page reloads, the claims/etc
would happen in the background and the page updated using
AJAX/xmlHttpRequest.
>> This brings up a good point though, how to sync status with the
>> screenshots site. I'll talk to Signum about it.
>
> Are there any changes to be expected during the party? I didn't expect
> syncing to be useful; the party is an atomic operation on the time scale
> of package uploads. :-)
Yeah, I was mainly thinking of how to get a list of packages and
versions of existing screenshots from screenshots.d.n.
--
bye,
pabs
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