2022-12-18 Weekly Meeting

tags: weekly-meeting

Link to last week's minutes

Topics:

TWiV

• Angel isn't finding time to work on it
• Changing to a month cadence?
• Christof is happy to keep working on them for the time being
  • The cadence will be one to maximum three weeks depending on the amount of content to cover

Benefits of TWiV/Reading Club

• Brings in new developers
• TWiV
  • Seeing 100 devblogs gains a lot of trust
    • There was a podcast that was very impressed by this
    • Players see it a lot as the "heartbeat" of the game
  • People will look at the lack of blog updates as the blog being "dead"
    • This is fair, since we don't have any other periodic outreach for the project otherwise
    • Bless the people who wrote a lot of content
  • Gives the devs a platform
    • For new contributors, it can allow them to share what they've done, even if it isn't a massive essay about a core part of the game
    • For devs, it's a way to write something that could go back to later
    • We should announce blog content request in new-contributors as well
• Anecdotally
  • People have become developers from the posts in the Rust Gamedev Newsletter
• From the perspective of players
  • There are very few oppertunities to see into Veloren's progress outside of blogs
  • Can see the updates from Airshipper
• YouTube/Streamed content
  • Dev videos
    • Are approachable for people who don't know much about the code base
    • Lets people see the developers making mistakes, and thinking through problems
    • When we see features in the blog, they're completed, and retrospective on the topics, rather than breaking it down in realtime
• Arewevelorenyet
  • A way for people to learn about specific systems at great detail
    • Links to sections of previous blog posts
  • Also contains sections about core game systems

Backing up the Discord

• Will Discord ever make a way to back up a server? Unsure
• There's probably a bot for this

From @aweinstock

if we could get chat history as a git repo, with like one markdown file per day and a section per channel or something, it'd be more convenient to link discussions from issues/rfcs

Code reading club

Next week leads

Lead: @xMAC94x
Call for Review!:
Issues (limit 7):
Minutes:

Todo agenda:

• Release preparation