Re: Looking for Sponsor for Space-Attack_2 Game

Hi Kris,

On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 8:52 PM Kris Occhipinti <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Ok, I've read through the first 6 chapters of
> https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/


Great! It's a lot of reading but it'll help make everything else make more
sense.


> I an "upstream author" and "upstream maintainer" and maybe I'm looking
> for a "maintainer" (the person making the Debian package of the program)
>
> Is that a thing?  When I was first looking into this everything said I
> needed a sponsor.  Are there people who are just maintainers and will
> take my software and package it?
>

Yes and yes.... But, there are relatively few of us and we're all really
busy. Someone MIGHT love your game and want to take the time to package it
but, to be blunt, there are quite a few awesome games out there and not
enough maintainers to package/maintain all of them. If you really want your
game in Debian then the best way is to do the Debian maintaining yourself.
If you find a good sponsor and get a feel for the packaging workflow, it
will become very easy. And much more quickly than you might think right
now. ;)


> So, I would assume I would create a pck file of the game, make
> godot3-runner a dependencies, then I would just need to create an icon,
> desktop file, and a shell script that would tie it all together and tell
> godot3-runner to run my pck file.
>

I'm not sure. Learning more about Godot is high on my to-do list but I
haven't gotten to it yet. I'm sure someone on here knows more about that.
I'd check the debian/changelog file for the Debian Godot packages if you
want specific names of knowledgeable people.


> I really want to get this down.  I have lots of plans for games and would
> love to see them in the debian repositories.
>

You've found the right community here for advice and encouragement. Good
luck! :)

-Olek