2 Ideas about the Game SIG

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 19:01:50 +0200,
   Alexandre <nobrakal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>Hi everybody,
>
>I've got 2 ideas today about the game SIG:
>
>1) We can create a meta-package for the game in Fedora? Like a 
>meta-paquet for all RPG in the official repo, a meta-paquet for all 
>FPS in the official repo...
>Because is very difficult to know the open-source game in Fedora. Yes 
>we have lgdb, and lot of similar, but they doesn't speak about Fedora 
>and the game in the official repo.
>What do you think about this idea?

Note there already is a games group, though packagers don't always add 
games to it. Just doing a review of that to get a list of games that 
should be added, would be good start. (Looking at desktop icon contents 
and package descriptions is a good way to find potential games. Then 
those can be checked to find ones not in the games comps group. Then 
the missing ones can be checked to see if they are really games. There 
are also some borderline cases like optional media for games, that I am 
not sure if we want included or not.)

>2) We can create a non open-source repo for the game. I know it isn't 

That is a non-starter for Fedora. You'd want to take that up in rpmfusion 
as they have non-free games.

>in the philosophy of Fedora, but the Game isn't in the open-source 
>philosophy. It's too difficult to make a good open-source game. I 
>think it's better to help the games societies to make a linux version 
>of his program. I want push on this repo a game like Wolfenstein: 
>Ennemy Territory, Heroes of Newerth or Regnum Online.
>What do you think about this idea?

This is the wrong place for that.