Maintainer Meeting (14 May 2022)

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

Time: 14 May 2022 18:00 UTC

Attendees:
DrSmugleaf
Remie
Visne
moony
ShadowCommander
PJB
ElectroSR
mirrorcult

Launcher server announcements | moony

  • The launcher listens to an RSS feed if you opt-in per server (or server group).
    • Works for any server that has such a feed setup.
    • It can be transient (truncated)
  • For both automated and manual announcements.
    • Can be categorized.
  • Can announce a new round starting, or mandatory server restarts.
  • Separate restart notifications from other notifications?
    • Needs high poll rate
    • Don’t have a websocket per server
    • Run a news aggregator as part of the hub?
      • What happens to servers off the hub?
    • Just keep it simple no websocket stuff for now just RSS all the way baby.
    • Push notifications for restarts
  • Hook up changelog to RSS updates

Automerging PRs when approved and CI passes | metalgearsloth

  • Refined GitHub supports this but it doesn’t work properly.
  • Allegedly exists in GitHub by default but the button doesn’t exist.
    • You can only enable it if you enable only being able to merge PRs when CI passes
      • Simply disable push to master –moony
  • What if the servers DIDN’T autoupdate to broken builds??
    • check em before we wreck em
  • Use a bot (when you code it)
    • We can use the workflow_run workflow event to do this.

getFlatIcon() AKA handling capture of appearance data (photography, scoreboard, Remie bait) | PJB

  • No BYOND-like server CPU rendering
  • Send the visual information to the client (appearance components)
    • Move complex stuff like item rendering on mobs to be 100% visualizer data
  • Just take a screenshot on the client? (photography) (Remie vindicated)
    • Easy to do
  • How do we render multi-entity entities?
    • e.g. eris walls
    • follow child entities and collect em all?
  • Replace appearance visualizers with entity systems
    • Already agreed on this in another meeting
    • Use component states to send the data?

ABI vs API backwards compatibility on engine | PJB

  • ABI: code keeps working dynamic linking against newer versions of the engine
  • API: code keeps working if you recompile against newer versions of the engine
  • ABI stability
  • There might be GitHub analyzers to check this
    • May or may not be worth setting up
  • Aim for ABI, when you have to break it, increase major version
// What you have:
void Foo(int x) => ...

// What you want:
void Foo(int x, int y = 0) => ...

// What you need to do to preserve ABI compat:
void Foo(int x) => Foo(x, 0); //method NOT removed
void Foo(int x, int y) => ...

Private playtest/actual QA sessions | mirrorcult

  • Making the maintainers, senior contributors and game admins play their game
  • (Suspicion on Space Station)
  • Whitelisted server on EUW2 or USW?
    • Maybe USW for the Australians.
    • Put another server instance on USW ez clap
  • Schedule
    • After the maintainer meeting (afterparty)
  • The whitelist needs to be per server

Auto-ignore unknown components on the client and remove client IgnoredComponents | mirrorcult

Cases:

  • server side component spelled correctly–ignored by client, no error on server
  • server side component spelled incorrectly–ignored by client, server errors
  • client side component spelled correctly–no error on client, server needs it in the ignore list
  • client side component spelled incorrectly–ignored by client, server errors since it’s no longer in the ignore list
  • shared component spelled correctly–no error on client, no error on server
  • shared component spelled incorrectly–ignored by client, server errors
  • Fund it

Early Access Roadmap

  • emergency shuttle
    • auto shuttle movement
  • gamemodes/antags
    • dynamic | mirror
      • nuke ops | Paul
        • 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
    • Cargo Commander
    • Coded on outer-rim, just needs porting to upstream
      • moony’s entirely rewriting it anyways so don’t do that
  • body system but again
  • body system
  • Grid merging
  • Diagonal tiles | sloth
    • 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, DrSmugleaf
    • we did it
  • combat rework (needs to be bikeshedded)
    • https://github.com/space-wizards/space-station-14/issues/3378
  • ghostrole bans | ShadowCommander
    • unify ghost roles prototype
  • 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
  • Prototype composition | Paul
    • https://github.com/space-wizards/RobustToolbox/pull/2678
    • https://github.com/space-wizards/space-station-14/pull/7403
  • Server polls
  • Round Statistics
    • Log votes, which maps are played the most…
  • State mandated Xonotic matches
    • Please I have severe withdrawal symptoms
    • Replaced by private SS14 playtests
    • Man down
  • The game runs like shit how do people play this

Crashes / Critical bugs: (when are we moving these to GitHub) => till next time

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