Builders Guild 4 August 2021

Attendees: arentweall (came about ~30 minutes in), Bagholder McFomo (came about ~30 minutes in), dan13ram (came about ~10 minutes in), dysbulic, googoomuck (came ~15 minutes in), jonathanp, Michiel, Rook, TomBalls (came ~10 minutes in), b0gie (came ~10 minutes in), peth (came ~40 minutes in)

Scribe: jonathanp

Summary:

• Welcome new builders Rook, b0gie, and arentweall
• Discussed ongoing work on open issues, PRs, and any help needed
• Reviewed progress on various UI components (sort, filter, player cards)
• Discussed IDX and role creation as well as guild creation process
• Had a conversation around displaying player availability and supporting collaboration

Discussion

• dysbulic met with blairv about using Docker Swarm instead of Kubernetes
  • Docker Swarm is simpler and more targeted and should be able to do what we need: run test environments when the backend has changed without needing to merge into the dev branch
  • Vercel runs the front end, Render runs the backend
    • Render has preview instances, but unsure how to connect these preview instances to Vercel
    • Is there a way to connect these preview instances to Vercel?
  • Michiel is unable to access Vercel or Render to set roles and permissions so troubleshooting is difficult
• Can we create various roles with IDX?
  • For example, can we create IDX roles for guild creation?
  • Ceramic currently allows only 1 person to edit a file that's created (whoever created the file has write access)
    • Could have someone create a file and pass ownership to someone else
• How are guilds currently implemented?
  • Discord as a source of truth for guilds is still an in progress issue — unsure what needs to be done for this
  • Guilds currently in database have been entered manually
• Thinking about ways for Players to get in touch with each other — availability calendar, Discord statuses, etc.
  • Office hours relate to this as well
    • There is an open issue related to this

Roundtable

• b0gie:
  • Has been working on a Flutter app before diving back into JavaScript
  • Potentially interested in becoming a builder — signaled interest in this path upon joining the Discord
  • Loves building things, but went 3d design route and wants to get back into coding
• Rook:
  • Has been checking things out and is ready to start getting involved with building
  • Mostly done Matlab (scientific) programming and mapping but has been expanding skills into other areas (frontend, Python, data science)
  • Looking for a good place to start — is checking out the YouTube codebase walkthrough
• TomBalls:
  • Has been busy lately, but has been diving in and checking things out
  • Looking to see what people are working on and looking to get back in and check things out
  • Has been getting a feel for the MetaGame stack — has been looking at the Wiki and Wiki issues