2021-10-10 Weekly Meeting

tags: weekly-meeting

Topics:

Issues

Potential beginner issues:

• https://gitlab.com/veloren/veloren/-/issues/819 Lantern shouldn't turn off on death (but it shouldn't be visible until the player respawns)
  • Tagged beginner and hacktoberfest
• https://gitlab.com/veloren/veloren/-/issues/999
  • Linked to 1888
  • Unsure of what to do, requires more detail
    • Asked for more detail
  • Update: has been resolved

Potential close issues:

• https://gitlab.com/veloren/veloren/-/issues/916
  • Treeco resolved an issue on large worlds
• https://gitlab.com/veloren/veloren/-/issues/755 @zesterer?
  • They shouldn't be placable in dungeons
  • Zesterer; Perhaps we need to come up with some very specific rules that govern this. "not near a spot, not underground, …"
• https://gitlab.com/veloren/veloren/-/issues/982 need to check if we still do this, otherwise potential beginner issue?
  • Might be harder to diagnose
• https://gitlab.com/veloren/veloren/-/issues/992 close? or update issue to indicate we want to do this once we have some sort of server listing (which identifies whether the server has auth enabled?)
  • https://discord.com/channels/449602562165833758/450065987006496768/761362836738932736
• https://gitlab.com/veloren/veloren/-/issues/221 @AngelOnFira want to keep this open?
  • Closed
• https://gitlab.com/veloren/veloren/-/issues/1045 @xMacX?
  • zesterer checked the code, doesn't look like we have more unwraps, should be fine?
• https://gitlab.com/veloren/veloren/-/issues/846 did we ever get a new sound here?
  • Campfires sound good now, closing
• https://gitlab.com/veloren/veloren/-/issues/1046
  • Closing

MRs

• https://gitlab.com/veloren/veloren/-/merge_requests/2846/diffs (can someone review and rebase)

  • Passed on to Yuri/McKol

• https://gitlab.com/veloren/veloren/-/merge_requests/2785 (any progress)

  • Asked participants for update

• https://gitlab.com/veloren/veloren/-/merge_requests/2570 (i havent looked at it but is has a thumbs down and stale, maybe close it)

Call for Reviews!

• 2796
• 2708

Other items:

• Hacktoberfest
  • Few people working on it
• Increasing server
  • Should we start looking into geo-locating servers?
    • This would require cross-datacenter servers
  • Action items
    • Upgrade server to CPX51 for now
      • See if we can reduce server at certain point of the day (scale based on player count)
    • Expidite server browser
    • Look into geo-locating official servers

Next week leads

Lead: Angel
Call for Review!: zesterer
Issues (limit 7): imbris
Minutes: Christof

Todo agenda:

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