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