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  on

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

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

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