Meeting 2010-02-14

From SuperTux

The 2010-02-14 meeting was held on Sunday, February 14^th at 18:00 UCT on IRC.

Present were:

• MMlosh
• WolfgangB
• Mathnerd314
• christoph_
• grumbel
• octo
• Auria
• ohnobinki (late)
• mattmccutchen (late)

Contents 1 Minutes 1.1 Project management 1.2 Gameplay 1.3 Next meeting date and time

Minutes

Project management

• (Unstable) Release
  • Mathnerd314: Release as-is
  • WolfgangB: Take care of the license of data files first, stable release ASP
  • octo: Release as-is
  • grumbel: Against a release
• Licenses of data files (bug 578)
  • grumbel suggested to move files with unknown license to a non-free/ folder.
  • octo's alternative would be to remove all files and announce to the mailing list that the authors should contact us with licensing information to have them included again.
  • The author of a file can be determined from the DataFiles, SVN log and/or the mailing list archives.
  • The information should be made available in an AUTHORS file which should be included in a release tarball.
  • Some sound files already do have a SVN property with licensing information.
• Semi-anonymous contributions (email/nick but no real name)
  • Contributions with just a nick name are fine. Since nobody knew what there was to discuss, the matter has been dismissed.
  • An email address would be nice to have, though.
• Google Code move
  • Using Google's bug tracker is the main point of the move.
  • Nobody likes Mantis, so some people suggested to move the bug tracker to Google, too.
  • Transition scripts Mantis -> Google are not available yet.
  • The proposed transition is to use Google's bug tracker for bugs related to new releases only.
  • The new bug tracker should be ready to use for the next stable release.
  • The tarballs of new releases will likely be hosted there.
• Bug tracker workflow (bug 580)
  • In favor of "feedback" means "requires feedback": Mathnerd314
  • In favor of "feedback" means "has feedback": octo, MMlosh
  • grumbel: Don't use "feedback"

Gameplay

• Changed levels
  • Mathnerd314 would like feedback on levels 13 (Above the Arctic Skies) and 27 (No More Mr Ice Guy) of Icy Island.
  • SuperTux:Community Discussion#No More Mr. Ice Guy Level Difficulty
• Carrying objects
  • Postponed for next meeting
• Autoscroll camera (bug 475)
  • Majority voted for "remove autoscolling altogether".
  • It is unclear, how scripted camera, cut scenes and so forth are effected.
  • It's possible removing autoscolling makes it possible to remove some hacks.

Next meeting date and time

• The next meeting is scheduled for Saturday, February 20^th, at 15:00 UCT.