Maintainer Meeting (19 March 2022)

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Time: 19 March 2022 16:00 UTC

Attendees:
DrSmugleaf
ShadowCommander
ElectroJR
Remie
Moony
Silver
Mirrorcult

Weekly bug-sheriff to triage issues that come up | Paul

• Discord message
• Maybe also include triaging PRs that should/could be included in the progress report
  • Use labels for project reports, is 3 too many?
    • 3 is good, use Major for things that should be added
    • Minor for things that may be added/fine to miss
• We can shuffle maintainers around to this role depending on availability
  • Have a bot or something that displays how many issues are untagged?
  • Whoever volunteers

Fixing/refactoring test pooling | DrSmugleaf

• Discord message
• Restarting the round is not a foolproof solution to reset the instance.
• Integration test client reconnection is faulty which is why pooling never applied for client instances.
• We need functioning full state serialization, then reset the state.

How does one move the YAML Linter to engine | DrSmugleaf

• Discord message
• How do we have content have a way to specify IOC services to use if the YAML Linter is in the engine.
  • Nobody knows
• Currently all the YAML Linter project does is start up two integration instances and call a prototype manager method.
  • Nobody knows an alternative
  • PLS HELP PJB

Where to draw the line on references to non-SS13 media | PJB

• Discord message

Examples of references to discuss:

• https://github.com/space-wizards/space-station-14/pull/6037/files many AI names from small names barely anybody knows to SHODAN to Siri.
  • I fucking added X.A.N.A. to the AI name list on /vg/ you can damn well bet your ass I’m gonna try to keep it there
    • Who added XANA I must know who here stans Code Lyoko
      • HERE WE ARE, GOING FAR, TO SAVE ALL THAT WE LOVE
• Kamina glasses & other Gurren Lagann items
  • Keep
• Hatsune Miku clothes
  • Keep it’s CC
• Alien franchise (aliens duh but also Ripley mechs?)
  • No (we have replacements thank god)
  • RIP smug
• Duck game items on /vg/
  • VG items are direct asset rips, fuck that
• Portal gun on /vg/ (Terraria has one too!)
  • It’s pixel should be fine. Valve allows a lot of usage from what I know.
• Red telephone
  • This is fine until valve releases their Red Phone AU
  • Yes this is fine

(Writing out thoroughly since I won’t be here)

Some thoughts:

• Something like Siri or Windows might be ick since those are actively advertised trademarks and stuff. Something like SHODAN isn’t as big of a deal?
  • Agree
• A simple name drop like SHODAN isn’t as big of a deal as complete content-take like Aliens.
  • Agree
• Taking assets is never OK, obviously.
  • Agree
• Miku clothes are fine only because they allow nonprofit use, prob wouldn’t be otherwise?
  • Agree

Case-by-case, check what each owning company has policy-wise

• If the demand is very strict it may want us to remove the content from git hsitory, needing a rewrite, which is painful

Renaming/editing/hiding old rsi-editor | mirrorcult

• Discord message
• People are still trying to use it over RSIEdit
• Already archived
• We are waiting on GitHub to detach the fork
• Edit the rsi-editor Readme to lead to RSIEdit

RSIEdit

• It doesn’t show up on the organization’s project list because it’s a fork
  • Ticket to detach it already open with GitHub Support

Commission lobby art | mirrorcult

• Discord message
• We have lobby BG support now
• PJB’s take: BG should take full screen at ~16:9 aspect ratio. Part will be covered up by lobby UI on the right frequently; art commissioned can put less important stuff there to avoid wasting effort.
  • Please no inset image like SS13 lobby. The lobby goes on top of the art.
• Find an artist, get the price, use Patreon money.
  • Artist for some of the stuff is aspev, steam art is waster of orange.
• Try to add support for viewing a map through a viewport in the background.
• Make a transparent overlay to give to the artists to know what aspect ratio they have to work with
  • Overcompensate for a long server name

What extra servers do we want | mirrorcult

• Discord message
• We have EU West 1, EU West 2, US West and Oceania at the moment
• We can host more instances on our current hardware
• Poll for MRP
  • Discord poll, but we should implement game polls too
• US East pls
• Kill EU West 1 make 2 new 1
  • add US East

Early Access Roadmap

Previous Roadmap

• emergency shuttle
  • auto shuttle movement
• gamemodes/antags
  • dynamic | mirror
    • nuke ops
      • the nuke is done, but it doesnt explode
        • large kaboom required
      • 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
  • Cargo Commander
  • Coded on outer-rim, just needs porting to upstream
• Radiation refactor
• body system but again
• body system (get smug to code it)
  • Species
    • we need to do non human body parts
      • needed to reenable lizard
• ENGINE EDITOR | PJB
  • could benefit from full state reload
• movement refactor
  • Client side movement?
    • a smidgen
      • as a treat
• 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
        • 
• oldchat + ui refactor | Jezithyr
  • we did it
• explosion refactor | ElectroJR
  • under review
• combat rework
  • hard to hit someone
  • wide attacks might be broken
    • prediction issue
• ghostrole bans | ShadowCommander
  • unify ghost roles prototype
• pulling refactor | Sloth
• admin notes | DrSmugleaf
• Admin traitor/role menu
  • Assign people roles
  • Objectives UI
• Job playtime requirements
  • Playtime tracking
  • Per role playtime tracking
• experimental science
• action ui refactor, like ss13 maybe
• change pvs to p/invoke zstd
  • compression too slow
  • we’re using (Q’s) C# library for zstd
• Prototype composition | Paul
• Server polls
  • Map poll at round end
• 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

PJB isn’t here so there’s no Tetris after-meeting party