Maintainer Meeting (02 April 2022)

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Any decisions taken in these notes may no longer be applicable.

Time: 02 April 2022 18:00 UTC

Attendees:
Smug
Silver
Shadow
Paul
moony
Jezithyr
ElectroSR
PJB
metalgearsloth

Not pushing to master to make it easier for downstreams | moony

  • Using PRs it’s easier for downstreams to selectively pick what they want from upstream.
  • This would mean making master (and stable if it happens) a protected branch so people can’t push to it.
  • Gitflow Workflow
  • We already don’t push features to master
  • Should we push hotfixes/submodule updates to master?
    • We can commit hotfixes to master
      • I’m still PRing them
    • Push submodule updates directly if we can fix bots
  • Current bots don’t handle direct commits well, someone needs to fix/create a new bot that does

Getting a CDN and setting up region serving | Silver

  • Our resident Argentinian has been getting slow downloads.
    • complaints from argentinian resident are through the roof
  • silver spinning up free aws instances with s3 and cloudfront with na, sa and eu, maybe au
    • we barely push 100gigs a month
      • we can use the free plan
      • if not, its not very expensive
  • apparently we cant use S3, builds arent cached (nono)

Migrating to a point-release model | moony

  • To help avoid disrupting our active playerbase and help mitigate download times.
    • Delta downloads when.
    • Reconnecting automatically without going back to the launcher when.
    • background download
    • point release
  • One update per day?
  • Point release is the easiest to do fast
    • Do it
    • 10 am every day
  • Delta downloads when PJB codes it

Document and improve content/engine publish workflows and the watchdog | moony

  • Open-source content and engine publish workflows.
  • Server hosting is painful at the moment, has undocumented error messages.
  • The system to publish builds like the main servers isn’t public, you need to ask for the powershell scripts.
  • Improve the docs and the tools god damn
    • Specially the watchdog (proper error output)

Engine changelog | ike709

  • Document engine changes so breaking changes are not a surprise.
  • This has already been a problem multiple times for Opendream.
  • also proper major/minor versions x.y -> major -> .z minor
    • X Major Y Minor?
  • GitHub action for changelog, similar to how content does it
  • Show the changelog somewhere

Removing drag and drop interactions | moony

  • Uncommon interaction and unintuitive for new players.
    • We can assign a keybind instead, like alt+click currently
  • How do we do it for dragging others into disposals for example
  • We should write a design doc and decide how interactions work in general

Multi-Z | Vera

  • How does one (sanely) do it
  • what needs it
    • movement
    • atmos
    • explosions
    • rendering
  • Special case maps
  • needs more discussion.

Improving dev UX for mappers, maintaining maps | moony

  • We need to maintain our soon to be 7 playable maps and other salvage maps.
  • Onboarding new mappers to help maintain them
  • Automated map maintenance?
    • Migrations
      • Renaming, replacing and removing
      • With YAML
  • Seeing pipes through walls / Being able to hide walls
    • filter/toggle by walls/floors/doors/windows/wire/pipe/tubes etc.
  • Being able to see the color of floors
  • Area copy and paste with preview
  • Picker copy and paste (middle click to copy what’s under your mouse)
  • Improving mapping UI in general (spawn windows)
  • Improving docking when mapping
  • Teleporting to error messages
  • Unreal engine retargets
  • Placement ghost for salvage that shows where it will spawn, how big the maximum salvage size is
    • To know if the salvage will spawn inside the map

Splitting UI code from simulation code, UI hot reloading and framework | Jezithyr

  • Split UI code from simulation code
  • Splitting into a separate assembly to be decided
  • Apply this to rendering and user input as well.
  • This can be done at the engine level without breaking downstreams (Opendream) while we transition SS14.
  • Removing UI dependencies from sim makes it possible to run the game without an UI.
    • It also makes it possible to develop UI without getting cancer.
  • Hot reloading UI
    • Yes when you code it
    • Visual editor?
      • No, visual preview yes
  • Using a established UI framework?

Early Access Roadmap

Previous Roadmap

  • emergency shuttle
    • auto shuttle movement
  • gamemodes/antags
    • dynamic | mirror
      • nuke ops
        • the nuke is done
        • does not work outside dynamic
      • lings?
        • needs DNA
      • blob | Remie
      • cult?
        • make it as good as vg for pjb
      • revs
        • we want a generic antag overlay system
        • loyalty implant
        • faction system
  • EL BODY SYSTEM | mirror
    • some refactors were done by mirror, still some left
    • surgery died in the war of 1992
  • Salvage proc gen | moony
  • Radiation refactor
  • body system but again
  • body system (get smug to code it)
  • Grid splitting
    • finish when sloth comes out as a furry
  • Grid merging
  • Diagonal tiles
    • we have diagonal walls, tiles are harder
  • ENGINE EDITOR | PJB
    • could benefit from full state reload
  • movement refactor
    • Client side movement?
      • a smidgen
        • as a treat
        • acruid pls com bak
  • Tutorial
    • In game guides
      • Yes
      • Waiting on pretty labels
      • books/ebooks in pda
        • ebooks preloaded on pda for selected job
        • when rich text gets merged
          • ![](https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/933790288860815380.webp =40x)
  • oldchat + ui refactor | Jezithyr
    • we did it
  • combat rework
    • hard to hit someone
    • wide attacks might be broken
      • prediction issue
  • ghostrole bans | ShadowCommander
    • unify ghost roles prototype
  • pulling refactor
  • admin notes | DrSmugleaf
  • Admin traitor/role menu
    • Assign people roles
    • Objectives UI
  • Job playtime requirements
    • Playtime tracking
    • Per role playtime tracking
  • experimental science
    • artifacts??!?!?
  • action ui refactor, like ss13 maybe | Jezithyr
  • any% maintainer | Jezithyr
  • change pvs to p/invoke zstd
    • compression too slow
    • we’re using (Q’s) C# library for zstd
  • Prototype composition | Paul
  • Server polls
  • Round Statistics
    • Log votes, which maps are played the most…
  • suit storage

Crashes / Critical bugs: (when are we moving these to GitHub)

  • Round restart fails sometimes (may be a physics issue) => till next time

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