2021-10-17 Weekly Meeting

tags: weekly-meeting

Topics:

Issues

Beginner issues:

• https://gitlab.com/veloren/veloren/-/issues/884
  • Can condense to just loot filter. Auto pickup no longer concern with animations
• https://gitlab.com/veloren/veloren/-/issues/1082
  • Aweinstock will add more information to the issue, zesterer mentioned that fixing all conversions between f32 and i32 might be an monumental task. See https://discord.com/channels/449602562165833758/534844039007305729/899357365122510868 (saturating would be a good solution)
• https://gitlab.com/veloren/veloren/-/issues/986
  • Update name/description
  • Game no longer crashes, the behavior is complex to fix
• https://gitlab.com/veloren/veloren/-/issues/801
  • Change name/description
• https://gitlab.com/veloren/veloren/-/issues/1184
  • Good beginners issue

Make actionable:

• https://gitlab.com/veloren/veloren/-/issues/936
  • Not sure what we would even do on our end to resolve this?
  • Consensus is that there is no that much that we could do, because finding a suitable location without sanctions is difficult

Potentially close:

• https://gitlab.com/veloren/veloren/-/issues/949
  • Wgpu?
  • Naming is misleading, wayland has issues but it sort of works
  • Consensus is to close this and reopen a more specific one
• https://gitlab.com/veloren/veloren/-/issues/849
  • Wgpu?
• https://gitlab.com/veloren/veloren/-/issues/1087
  • Sprites require animation now
• https://gitlab.com/veloren/veloren/-/issues/1136
  • What did meat branch not cover in this list?
  • Slipped will create a more specific issue

MRs

• New gliders: https://gitlab.com/veloren/veloren/-/merge_requests/2785

  • Angel will talk to Evelyn

• Chat box slider: https://gitlab.com/veloren/veloren/-/merge_requests/2799

  • needs new author

• Sneak with weapons drawn (finished?): https://gitlab.com/veloren/veloren/-/merge_requests/2917

  • In progress

• More diverse travelers: https://gitlab.com/veloren/veloren/-/merge_requests/2909

  • still draft, author working on it

• Sync group entities regardless of distance: https://gitlab.com/veloren/veloren/-/merge_requests/2226

  • Needs to sync fewer components at longer distances, and to manage creation/deletion of entities corresponding to group members via invite/leave instead of via regions.

• Airshipper changelog parsing: https://gitlab.com/veloren/airshipper/-/merge_requests/26

  • see MR (waiting for updated MD parser)

• Enable binding to IPv6 addresses at the same time as IPv4 (I think?): https://gitlab.com/veloren/veloren/-/merge_requests/2925

  • Confusion about this MR

Call for Reviews!

• Modular weapons
  • public review will start after the meeting

Other items:

• Networking issues
  • Lots of people have been having issues with Airshipper/server
    • Most people won't be able to say that they have an issue if they're not on the Discord
    • Seems to be more prominent in the US
  • There is a lot to look into
    • Hetzner
      • No peering?
      • Bad routing
      • Pricing is very attractive
    • Our network code
    • Kubernetes networking code
    • We don't know whether these issues are only present on some days and everything is fine on others
    • Issue seems to happen too sporadic to do a proper search for root cause
    • Could we be bad at recovering from packet loss?
  • Tests
    • Build traceroute and bandwidth statistics into airshipper
  • Action items
    • Try a R2 CDN for Airshipper

    • Build more diagnostics into Airshipper

      • Link to create issue
        • Includes system info
    • Using QUIC might fix latency due to random packet loss
    • More work into downloading only what's needed
      • Improve binary size
        • Remove debug symbols?
          • Would have to have a server with debug servers?
        • Compression methods?
      • Incremental updates for assets
• Becoming a non-profit
  • What it takes
    • Three documents
      • Bylaws (directors, officers, elections…)
  • Action plan
    • Create the team, find the directors
      • Figure out the number of people needed in preparation for next week
    • Get on the same page
    • Submit the forms
• Communicating changes to player
  • Never include balance changes in changelog
    • "Fixed minotaur" doesn't explain much
  • Many people don't include in the changelog, since it creates conflicts
  • Airhsipper might not display it the best
    • Balance section might help with this
  • Ways to improve
    • In the PR, add changelog there, bot fixes it later?
    • Make a new repo for changelogs?
    • Aim to get more verbose changes for each PR
    • Players can review balance changes
  • Action items
    • Channel/Role to ping
      • Threads?
      • Very similar to code reviewer role

Next week leads

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

Todo agenda:

• Saturday Streams
• Figure out how to get more moneyyyy
  • Rust foundation server capacity?
  • How to push open collective more
    • Get more donations
    • Rewards for donating?