Maintainer Meeting Notes - Date: 16.10.2021

Attendees:
PJB
Paul
ShadowCommander
Vera
Zoldorf
DrSmokeleaf
RemieRichards
Mirrorcult (last 2)

A plan for release | Mirror

do we feature freeze, keep going as a standalone thing and let forks take over?

• will /veegee/ steal PJB back? idk
• pjb doesnt like trees
• we will continue to develop the official game

18:07 – My cookies are already gone. Oh no. WHATTAAMAGONNADO??? 🍪

Game admins, we need em | Mirror

server population is picking up. we should probably look for more admins if we can.

• we really needs logs before we do this
• also other admin tools
  • logging
  • jobbans
  • notes
  • improve ahelps when we have logging & have them link to a private discord
  • Teleport Here and Jump to Player but not ass
  • click author name of a message to open a context menu, jump to them @PJB for the functionality for buttons in chat
• new admins are gonna ragequit because the lack of admintools
• all gameadmins are basically inactive, delete role

Discord channel mosh pit

• we have info spread throughout #rules-info, #faq, #annoucements, #progress-reports
  • team agrees its fine, but move faq to website & link to it from #rules-info
• internal channels. its mostly not even for development, more like a meta-gang of friends, so the “contributor” might be a bit misleading
  • VIP: Assigned on discretion. Internal channels (secret-ss14, secret-offtopic, vidya-gamers)
  • Contributor: ““Automatic”“ role after 1 PR. Access to #actual-development #progress-reports #role-assign #important-info
  • Move gamer role from role-assign to vidya-gamers
  • Have patreons & contributors have access to patreons?????????????
  • maybe have a seperate discord for developing in the future

Rotation bug funnies | Sloth

Spawning the station rotated to better spot obvious rotation bugs

• sure
• this is terrible for map diff renderer
  • you know the emoji disintegrating gif where it has the funny loading icon? that
  • Deal with it

Popup/Prompt standard | Shadow, Mirror

• which side confirm & cancel goes to
  • confirm right

Windows:

MacOS:

Ubuntu:

KDE:

• have a simplified way to create them

  • pjb hates em. “really does not like them” extreme hatred “input dialogs everywhere”
  • pjb made a spooky sound… she scares me
  • AaAAaaAAAaaaaaAAAAaAAA!
  • mom pick me up im scared
  • just saw a blue vera gradient in pjb’s krita recent files, d’aw.

• solution: have “popups” that expand out of stuff like the examine window or:

This is already in, woo

## Status effects framework & event handling | Vera - We might wanna code a general framework for status effects. Discuss what we need. - Certain status effects should probably be components so handling events with them isn’t bad

Runtime? Variant? Strains? Seed prototypes 📉 | Vera

some systems depend on getting roundstart prototypes and modifying those (by creating variants). this should be standardized to not become a massive mess

• a
• conversation has gone off-rails :focus:
• codebase ain’t prepared for YAML hot-reload…
• open git issue for this system
• sacrifice vera by rewriting seeds and then get ideas
• you know the emoji disintegrating gif where it has the funny loading icon? that

Ancient Hardware vs. Compute Shaders | Paul, hopefully PJB

do we keep supporting ancient hardware or do we save ourselves the trouble and get nicer libs & nice new features

• veldrid
• benefits: pjb dies less daily, compute shaders
• downsides: pjb rewrites renderer, needs to be rewritten anyways
• pjb: might be possible to keep opengl and rewrite renderer to be onpar
• ancient hardware wins again

Wallmounts, how do | Mirror

refuses to elaborate leaves

very fast pjb transcription done by 3 people at once:

• visibility is dependent on the viewport (camera position, side of the wall)
• cant be global (e.g. cant be on the spritecomponent)
• collect list of spritecomponents & pass it to systems that want to look into it so they can switch the visibility (working on a copy of the data)

Logging stuff | Mirror

• log by each entity system, then group systems together?
  • move entity system, logs are different
  • OOC is not in an entity system
  • manually assign groups instead (like ss13)
• how to store logs
  • throw it on postgres (jsonb goes brrrr) for the time being
  • if its a perf/(web) scaling problem we can change it later
• use loki to aggregate? @Silvertorch5
  • if we need perf we do it then, just postgres for now
• stay with grafana for all logs, or just server metrics? have our own prebuilt solution for logs? @Silvertorch5
  • grafana way too limited, we need our own solution for logs. keep for server metrics.
• ingame log viewer
  • yes, obviously
  • drag select an area when?
• API?
  • check pauls branch