Am 31.10.2017 um 14:16 schrieb Phil Morrell: > Hi team, > > I was wondering how up to date the games wiki is in general and also > if there's a plan needed for the announced alioth retirement? Some > pages give the wrong impression about how the team seems to operate, > and others give out of date instructions. > > e.g. https://wiki.debian.org/Games/Meetings claims that the team uses > regular meetings to coordinate ideas and goals > e.g. https://wiki.debian.org/Games/UT99 makes no mention of G-D-P, > which I believe is now supported by the version in testing Hi, I believe there will be some sort of migration process of our current Git repositories but it is too early to know all the details. The same goes for accounts and ACLs. At least it is a good opportunity to start from scratch and remove non-active members. The wiki is in general free to edit and we have only limited control what content is added to it. For instance https://wiki.debian.org/Games/UT99 was created by someone who is not a member of this team. Everyone can edit pages, so if you find some outdated or even wrong information, please update it. The last team meeting was in 2013. [1] Most important topics were new member recruitment and the Jessie Release Goal [2]. The original idea behind that was to attract new members and find something simple to work on for everyone like creating desktop files and better icons for games. Despite the fact that a dozen interested people turned up, we never managed to make this a real team goal. In the end I was the only one who worked on it. The reality is that there is no real team at the moment. On paper we have more active members than most other teams but our interests differ vastly. There are single games, libraries and applications which are maintained outstandingly and then there are hundreds of games which just exist and receive an update once in a blue moon if they are lucky. > I'm still feeling my way around debian (and been quiet recently), but > am hoping to increase my involvement, especially in the Games Team - > if reviewing the wiki would be helpful I can consider that. My general advice to you is: Find something you are really interested in and stick to it. A clear intrinsic motivation really helps to overcome any obstacles. At the moment we need regular contributors the most who are interested to fix bugs in all existing team maintained packages, respond to bug reports from users and update games to the latest upstream version on a regular basis. You can also choose to maintain your favorite game and to do it well or maybe you are interested in improving the documentation. The wiki wouldn't be the worst place to start in this case. I believe the whole games section would benefit from a more streamlined entry page. Like I said in the beginning pages about single games should be kept separately from the main topics "Who are we", "How can you contribute", "Goals", etc. Regards, Markus [1] https://wiki.debian.org/Games/Meetings/2013-08-17 [2] https://wiki.debian.org/Games/JessieReleaseGoal
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