Maintainer Meeting (8 Jan 2022)

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Time: 8 Jan 2022 16:00 UTC

Attendees:
DrSmugleaf
Vera
metalgearsloth
Paul
ElectroSR
PJB
Visne
ShadowCommander

Automatic component names | wrexbe, metalgearsloth

ok epin merge

Maintainers should actually codeown stuff they’re in charge of.
Make it so nobody gets notified for absolutely everything (like me and PJB currently-)
Doing this should help with reviews!
Maybe don’t merge PRs if the codeowners haven’t approved it?
Current CODEOWNERS:
- All: PJB, Vera
- Localization files: Remie
Change it to:
- Atmos: Vera
- Body system: Mirror and Smug
- Clyde/ClydeAudio: PJB
- Construction: Vera
- Database: PJB and Smug
- Integration tests: Smug
- How about just everything except physics in engine: PJB
  - thistbhn’t, I’d rather not have anyone receive notifs for everything :blobsweat:
- Map renderer: Smug
- Networking/prediction (not pvs): PJB/Acruid?
- Pow3r: PJB
- PVS: Paul
- Resources: PJB
- Physics: Sloth
- Serialization: Paul and Smug
- UI: PJB
- YAML Linter: Paul and Smug

Do we enforce it
Paul says we figured out how to do out but I can’t find where
- audiofile.ogg -> audiofile.ogg.yml
Which metadata should audiofiles have?
- license identifier like rsis, copyrightstring

Unified way to name them
TWO EVENTS
Equip attempt event has two viewpoints:
- Equipee (GotEquipped?)
- Equipment (IsBeingEquipped?)
- talk in text chat to decide the funny
- just @ Remie simple

IANA is the list of “which applications use which ports”
Port 5514 is free.
Current status: ss14:// is HTTP port 1212/tcp, ss14s:// is HTTPS port 443/tcp
- Problem: leaving out URI scheme can make address fail to work
  - Most people used to playing on game servers are probably not used to URI schemes in their server address.
- Problem: 443 is HTTPS port. This means ss14s:// servers need to put their stuff behind a subpath or subdomain, which is ugly. Or use a port I guess.
Do we want an IANA port assignment?
- Yes
- Port: 5514
Only HTTP for connections
Drop the code for connecting over HTTPs
- It makes the code simpler (Launcher, watchdog, hub)
- Figure out a fallback path for the other servers

Should we revert them?
- We did so for rich text
Revert if server is broken and we can’t fix it in one line code change (quickly)
Objective: For a round to be playable, we can do it case by case.
If we revert we can reopen the original pr

What to do about the many useless prototypes?
- Do we clean them?
Only allow YAML additions that would be immediately useful to mappers, admins or straight up obtainable in-game
- New salvage wreck, new playable station, new chemical that can be mixed and has effects, new food item that can be cooked in-game or is obtainable in some other way, new fun badmin toy…
Do we want to be a bit more strict with new machines having, for example, construct/deconstruct steps?
every yaml addition should be either:
- for admins
- for mappers
- obtainable
  - with cooking recipe & construction steps
be more strict in general

The workflow:
- Press a button
- Restart server
- Enter server
- Same state
What’s the current status
- not good
What can we do (conventions, best practices) to make this more doable
- event serialization
- new save format & logic: gamestatesave
  - saves all maps
  - entitysystem should get a way to read/write into that
sidenote: this would be very beneficial for my persistence server fork plans

Previous Roadmap AKA What do we want to move from playtest to early access

emergency shuttle
- auto shuttle movement
gamemodes/antags
- dynamic
  - mirror pls write the doc for it I will code it I swear on my life
  - nuke ops
    - the nuke is done, nuke ops isn’t yet
    - does not work outside dynamic
  - lings?
  - blob?
    - vera loves blob
  - cult?
    - make it as good as vg for pjb
EL BODY SYSTEM
- some refactors were done by mirror, still some left
- surgery died in the war of 1992
Salvage
- it is done
- upstream moony asteroid/wreck generator for procgen salvage
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0LPWuTt2o4
Teleporters (Beam me up (Scotty))
- telescience
- its complicated we need to talk about it
Singularity needs to ACTUALLY WORK
body system but again
body system (get smug to code it)
- Species????
ENGINE EDITOR
- could benefit from full state reload
Tutorial
- In game guides
  - Yes
  - Or at least a link to the wiki ingame
    - Link it RN JESUS
  - Waiting on pretty labels
  - books/ebooks in pda
    - ebooks preloaded on pda for selected job
    - when rich text gets merged