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

Agenda

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Community

• Forum moderation

Resource Repository

• Splintered community repositories popping up
• Restoring the central community repository
  • Hosting
    • Is Dreamhost usable?
  • 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?
• 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?