multi-touch-dev team mailing list archive

["Stephen M. Webb" <stephen.webb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 15:56 +0100, Ulrich von Zadow wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> we have all multitouch games packaged and working with the updated XInput 2.1 API :-).
> 
> Installing python-libavg-games from OXullo's ppa (https://launchpad.net/~oxullo/+archive/libavg) on top of the utouch stack should get everything running.
> 
> Do you need anything else from us to get the packages into natty?

I would suggest that the various packages be converted into separate
projects registered under Human-Computer Interaction on launchpad
(https://launchpad.net/hci).  That would make each individual project
easier for others to find (rather than having them live as private
branches under oxullo's personal repo) and they will benefit from other
publicity we give to our HCI projects.

I would also suggest a separate team be created on launchpad to host the
source code for the various projects.  This has a number of benefits,
including clarity of who maintains the packages as a group as well as
the ability for fine-grained access to control to the packaging source
branches. For example, the Ubuntu maintainers usually need access for
projects actually included in Ubuntu.

Finally, to actually get the projects into Ubuntu they must be sponsored
by someone with Ubuntu upload privileges, which generally requires
opening a bug and subscribing the ubuntu-sponsors team, who will then
review the package for various issues.  This is much easier but not
impossible if there is a project for each package in launchpad against
which to create a bug.

As an aside, libavg is already in Ubuntu, but as a much much older
version synched with Debian.

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Stephen M. Webb <stephen.webb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Canonical Ltd.