On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 02:09:58PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > The Debian games team created goplay to help users discover games in > Debian. Perhaps this needs more promotion and more people creating > screenshots and probably a rewrite to look more flashy.
When I have seen GoPlay I thought: What a cool idea realised in a narrow minded way. Why do I consider it narrow minded? I'm quoting the FAQ: Q: How do I submit a screenshot? A: Send Miriam a 320x240 thumbnail picture in png format. Since more than one year we have screenshots.debian.net and GoPlay just sticks to a non-maintainable competition to this great service. Is there any sense to stick to this instead of simply using screenshots.debian.net (and advertise this great service in the FAQ to motivate gamers providing screenshots which can be used in *all* applications for instance synaptics (and other apt frontends in case they might support screenshots) as well as the Blends web sentinel? IMHO this would be a simply reasonable way to go. An even better way to go in my (perhaps to focussed view) would be if the pkg-games team would join the Blends effort. (I several times pinged them for either taking care for Debian Jr or draw this project in their direction.) In this case they could make profit from screenshots and more (for instance translations of package descriptions) as it is demonstrated at the web sentinel pages[1] of this project. The big advantage of havng this stuff on the web is that you can point people to it *before* they installed Debian and make it an *argument* for using Debian. To try goplay you need to have Debian just installed. So in short: GoPlay is quite cool but done the wrong way. If you would use screenshots.debian.net as input and would be flexible enough to handle also other topics than just playing in a reasonable way (either by enhancing DebTags to somehow match the tasks of the existing Blends or use the tasks of Blends as a primary package selection and draw the remaining information from DebTags) this would be really helpful for Debian in general (and not only for players). Kind regards Andreas. [1] http://blends.alioth.debian.org/junior/tasks/ -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100722082007.gc12...@an3as.eu