Maintainer Meeting (16 Dec 2023)

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Time: 16 Dec 2023 18:00 UTC

Attendees:

Dump the wiki | metalgearsloth

Originally never intended long-term
I don’t want to be forced into maintaining this
Just link people github if they want something out of game
Add banner
Possible solutions:
1. Set up new site that is “the guide book, online”. Current wiki keeps existing
  - Preferably with a banner or something “use guide book for up-to-date info”
2. Set up new site, kill wiki
3. Make a system to automatically integrate guidebook content into the wiki
We’re not stupid enough to delude ourselves into thinking anybody is going to step up to do (3) so lol

P5S thread
Engine PR
Electro is making another PR to use arrays instead of 100 dicts
Please god PJB finish the better profiler infrastructure
- Ability for maintainers to make profiles of game servers without bugging PJB
- Benchmarking server, automated benchmarks

Ping maintainer and/or PM for feedback, send it in one message to Enrico and end the suffering.
how do we actually hold ourselves to it :godo:

Erase verb is broken in its current state. It fails to delete some messages if the target is spamming.
Skeleton still sometimes spawn in nullspace or whatever it’s called requiring admin intervention to fix.
Replays are completely broken. Before they broke the seek bar was glitched and would fast forward/backwards indefinitely after you used it. Seems to have been following the mouse well after the user stopped clicking.
- Send a message in contrib notifications or somewhere that old replays are (currently?) broken.
- Have a separate download in the repo for old launcher that works with old replays.
- Set up a steam beta for an old launcher for old replays?
Adminhelp is often glitched and not showing specific players even if you can hear the ahelps being sent. You cannot right click player names in the ahelp menu.
- Broken right clicks:
  - AHelp
  - F7 players tab
  - F7 objects tab
There should be functionality for responding to ahelps through discord.
- Wow we already addressed the ahelp thing halfway
Vehicles break after going over ice requiring admin intervention to fix.
Restart votes seem to be abused to determine whether there are admins on.
- A fix to this could be allowing votes when admins are on but them having no effect.
Add round numbers to ahelp (or to PDAs and call them shift numbers)

Have a shorter docs page for people that want a server for only themselves or themselves+friends, link to it with a bot command.

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

Crashes the server reliably.
Something that bricks your client often (needs a client restart).
- Example: Blackscreens the client until you reconnect.
If something ruins the round and is disabled because of it.
- Example: Communal lung bug. => till next time like and subscribe smash that button ~~did you know only 6% of contribs join this meeting?~~ According to YouTube’s statistics,