2010 Q1 Dev Meeting
From Armagetron
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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?
- Hosting
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
- Use hooks to generate menus on the fly
- Implementation Details, better kept for future dev-only discussion
- Better Look
- Use cockpit code?
- glowing
- textures/models
- Item Reorganisation
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