[tf-games] Games inside Tuxfamily & Minetest

[Cacatoès <un.cacatoes@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

(could write in french for those who are annoyed)

As I advertised on the #tuxfamily IRC channel, lately I'm interested in 
giving minetest a try.
As of now, I've been playing the game very litle, and only know the 
basics of the administration since it relies heavily on «mods», because 
vanilla Minetest doesn't have many features (no mobs, no rights 
management...).

Minetest is written in C++, and shouldn't be as CPU and RAM hungry as 
his java-written grand brother. If it is, I think I have seen some way 
to put boundaries/limits in the config file.
It is of course Free and comes with Debian.

So here are my questions,

1) Are there other people on this list who already have experience in 
administrating or playing minetest ?

2) What about setting up the basics right now ?
That would mean:
* install package minetest-server in version 0.4.10 (debian 
testing/unstable)
* and opening UDP port 30000 (or another if you prefer but default one 
is nice).

Last point I have is something for which i'm a bit awkward about how to 
word it or what to do, to sum up I'm wondering if there would be an 
interest in improving a bit the «Game administration» side of Tuxfamily.
For instance, I had forgotten about the existence of this ops list.
The main point for this may be to refresh a bit this page: 
http://faq.tuxfamily.org/Games/En
.... and make it look more like a portal (it may not lack much).
The goal would also be to avoid leaving the game servers getting too 
rusty because of a lack of communication about how it works.
I would be curious for instance about if the servers you administrate 
evolve or rather remain static and working.
Maybe it's fine as is, maybe we can't do more, or maybe you have other 
ideas, but in any case I'm interested in what you think.

Regards,