Re: [gentoo-dev] games.eclass policy

[Daniel Campbell <zlg@gentoo.org>]

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On 02/08/2016 01:49 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Feb 2016 04:13:38 -0800 Daniel Campbell <zlg@gentoo.org>
> wrote:
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>> On 02/07/2016 03:09 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
>>> On Sun, 7 Feb 2016 11:38:27 +0100 "M.B." <tomboy64@sina.cn>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hello folks.
>>>> 
>>>> While hacking away on a new ebuild I came across the issue
>>>> that games.eclass apparently got banned from future use. The
>>>> only references I was able to dig up (apart from helpful
>>>> people on IRC), were
>>>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=566498 (games.eclass:
>>>> use of games group needs to be removed wrt 20151011 Council
>>>> meeting) and 
>>>> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance/Meeting_Summ
ar
>>>> 
>> ies#Games_team_policies_issue
>>>> 
>>>> 
>> (A mere deprecation notice).
>>>> 
>>>> In contrast, a simple "grep deprec /usr/portage/eclass/"
>>>> gives numerous deprecation warnings; just games.eclass is not
>>>> among them.
>>>> 
>>>> Please provide some guidance how (community-)developers are 
>>>> supposed to handle games (in particular wrt games.eclass) in
>>>> the future. This also includes usage of
>>>> /usr/games/{bin/lib/share} etc.
>>> 
>>> For reference, this is the reference decision:
>>> 
>>> https://projects.gentoo.org/council/meeting-logs/20151213-summary.tx
t
>>>
>>>
>>> 
I'm going to open a bug asking games team how they're going to
>>> proceed.
>>> 
>> Please let us know when you do; there are a few Humble Bundle
>> games I'd like to bring to the tree and I, too, don't have much
>> to go on as far as guidelines beyond our usual.
> 
> I'm sorry for replying this late. The relevant bugs are:
> 
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=566498 for games group 
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=574080 for paths 
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=574082 as tracker for both
> 
Thanks for the links. I understand games have been the subject of a
lot of 'discussion' on the ML over the past few years. What do you
believe to be some of the main blockers to getting more dev
participation? From what I gather, a decent portion of us play games
on our systems, so it seems reasonable to get more maintainership
spread out. There's a lot of user interest too, as Ian pointed out.

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