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From: DrSmugleaf <drsmugleaf@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2024 12:24:11 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Add February 3rd 2024 maintainer meeting notes

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+# Maintainer Meeting (03 Feb 2024)
+```admonish info
+Any decisions taken in these notes may no longer be applicable.
+```
+
+**Time:** 03 Feb 2024 18:00 UTC
+
+**Attendees:**
+- DrSmugleaf
+- ShadowCommander
+- Lank
+- Chief_Engineer
+- Jezithyr
+- faint
+- EmoGarbage
+- notafet
+- Julian
+- Ed
+
+## Singleton entities | metalgearsloth
+- I've had to use these before so stuff serializes properly (e.g. arrivals map, centcomm map)
+- Do we add engine support (atm I have been using AllEntityQuery\<T> and returns but would be nice to reduce duplication)
+    - **Sure WYCI**
+- Gamerules are doing something similar as well (e.g. making nukeops exclusive or whatever if it's a nukeops round)
+    - **Game rules shouldn't all be singletons, but it's fine if someone codes one that is.**
+
+## Freezing pet clothing | metalgearsloth
+- Copy-paste pngs and shift pixels everywhere
+- Massive code debt
+- Just use displacement maps dear god
+- **We freeze new sprites (gas tank sprites are still allowed)**
+
+## Handling deleted entities on datafields for refs | metalgearsloth
+- So for example device networks don't cleanup data and have a bunch of invalid entity references which maploader prunes but this is mid
+- There's other instances of this too where you need to do bi-directional entity termination handling
+- Do we just add some way to subscribe to a particular entity deleting as an easier way to handle this E.G
+- **Yes WYCI, but also when any disconnection not just deletion**
+    - >EntityA references EntityB
+    - >EntityB has no practical reason to reference EntityA besides cleanup
+    - >EntityA subscribes to EntityB termination (like a dictionary or something) and cleans itself up, meaning you don't need to add any extra handling on EntityB and the datafield stays clean
+- This would also handle cases where it might be EntityA + EntityC + EntityD referencing EntityB and you don't need to add some list to bloat out EntityB
+- Alternative we just keep storing references in components ig
+
+## Design docs | Lank
+- **We allow docs that won't be implemented by the author as long as either the design doc is good or someone else wants to implement it.**
+    - If a design doc is left accepted but not implemented for a long time we can remove it later.
+    - This gives a list of things to implement for contributors and maintainers.
+
+## Current freezes
+- Vehicles are restricted.
+- New pet clothing is frozen (except for gas tanks).
+
+## Current admin issues
+- Ahelp relay does not tell you whether the player has disconnected or not. [23716]
+- Ahelp window should tp you to the last character if the player is disconnected [20189]
+- Specific admin actions can only be performed on logged in players(e.g. Erase) [23796]
+
+## Early Access Roadmap
+- **nothing on this roadmap matters except early access trailer and admin issues.**
+- A trailer for Steam
+    - ask enrico about the trailer
+- [**game admin items**](https://github.com/space-wizards/space-station-14/issues/23246) [c#23985](https://github.com/space-wizards/space-station-14/pull/23985)
+- gamemodes/antags
+    - dynamic [c#16548](https://github.com/space-wizards/space-station-14/pull/16548)
+    - wizard (keron)
+- Steam account linking
+- The game runs like shit how do people play this
+    - "IDK but maybe when I fix the watchdog you can figure it out easier" | 09/09/2023
+    - "I only played VRChat since last time and VRChat runs like shit so I don't know how people play this" | 23/09/2023
+    - "" | 21/10/2023
+    - Miros runs fine | 16/12/2023
+        - I am 5 parallel universes ahead of you
+    - We have a new Minecraft server it runs fine now (SS14 runs fine, really)
+    - Here lies Minecraft long live Satisfactory
+    - PJB is skiing
+
+Crashes / Critical bugs: (when are we moving these to GitHub)
+- Crashes the server reliably.
+- Something that bricks your client often (needs a client restart).
+    - Example: Blackscreens the client until you reconnect.
+- If something ruins the round and is disabled because of it.
+    - Example: Communal lung bug.
+      => till next time
+      like and subscribe
+      smash that button
+      ~~did you know only 6% of contribs join this meeting?~~ According to YouTube's statistics,
+
+## PJB personal roadmap
+- Audio rework DONE NO WAY
+- Fix infra
+- Watchdog rework: testmerges, **better way to get traces from game servers**
+- Fix perf oh god
+- PJB is reading about window scaling