2010 Q1 Dev Meeting

http://forums3.armagetronad.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=19861

Date and Time

On Sunday 10th, January 2010, a bit before the ladle, around 18 GMT

Where

IRC Channel #armagetron on irc.freenode.net

http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#Armagetron

Log: http://havoc.ift.uni.wroc.pl/~p4/logs/armagetron/show.php?log=%23armagetron.2010-01-10.log

Agenda

Community

• Forum moderation
• Give Lackadaisical access to website

Resource Repository

• Splintered community repositories popping up
• Restoring the central community repository
  • Hosting
    • Is Dreamhost usable? No, can't run rsyncd
  • Accounts
    • Username or global-ID?
  • Management
    • Non-developers?
    • Third party dtd's?

Merging Sty/CT

• If the 0.2.8 branches are wanted, maybe they should be merged and become 0.2.9? z-man sez NO
• Merging trunk development
  • Per-feature branch theory
• Trigger protocol
  • Need a way to let servers define new controls

Future Direction

• Console/phone platform support
  • OpenGL ES
  • GPL exceptions?
• Scripting
  • Python scripting fork (removes Ruby "support")
• Feature requests via bug tracker?
• CMake and other stagnant branches

User Experience

• Menus
  • Item Reorganisation
    • Implementation Details, better kept for future dev-only discussion
      • Use hooks to generate menus on the fly
        • eEvent branch uses boost::signals, finalise and use that?
      • Add menu entries statically, but better
  • Better Look
    • Use cockpit code?
    • glowing
    • textures/models

Stabilisation of trunk after 0.2.8.3

• Trunk
  • Quite unstable yet, not good for tournament servers. -- Branch 0.4? Yes
  • Authentication threading not working, drop zthreads and use boost threads as we already use boost ? Yes, for 0.4
  • New features
    • Referee votes
• Windows 7