Due to feedback by FreeBSD devs, I am re-sending this email to ports@ -- the rest is a verbatim copy of the mail I sent to the individual maintainers.
Hi all, you are receiving this email because you are listed as maintainer of one or more ports in FreeBSD's game category. I do apologize for writing to all of you directly, but there does not seem to be any games mailing list for FreeBSD. The Debian and Ubuntu games teams have merged completely and the Fedora team has been working more and more with us to reduce duplicated work. We have been using the Debian games mailing list until now, but we decided that a distro-agnostic list would be better. Gentoo and SuSE are starting to hop on board and the more the merrier :) As Games are somewhat special in that they in general need more patches than usual packages and that they often have a dead upstream, we plan to discuss some ways there to try and collaborate more. We will start defining requirements and possible layouts for below-upstream repositories, soon. You could then pull from there and get a common, patched version. ports-specific patches would be applied in your local repositories via your existing processes. I hope I managed to interest a few of you and hope to see you on [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1] soon. For an introduction, read Miry's email [2]. Richard PS: I do apologize if you think this is spam. I simply did not find any better way to contact you all. PPS: I excluded ports@, gnome@, kde@ and perl@ from this email. Only real persons are on BCC [1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/games [2] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/games/2008-November/000006.html _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
