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IRC log for #minetest-dev, 2013-12-29

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Time Nick Message
00:08 celeron55 VargaD: if you want, you can set xyz as the commit author in various ways by using git
00:09 celeron55 (he should answer by himself though)
00:10 celeron55 (but that'll be after sleep i guess)
00:10 VargaD thanks, I didn't know that. I'm not a git expert :)
00:28 thexyz I'm not sure, there are copyrights already in the new files
00:29 thexyz and the code is so damn simple I honestly don't care that much
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07:39 VargaD 'morning
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13:32 VargaD Are there any release schedule? When so you release next version?
13:33 PilzAdam VargaD, we dont have release schedules
13:33 VargaD How do you decide to release a new version?
13:34 PilzAdam when many core devs think that its time to release it
13:35 VargaD I see, thanks
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14:08 sapier actually release time is pure chance ;-)
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14:12 VargaD according to github there are 46 open bug
14:15 sapier just ignore them ;-) (at least some of em)
14:15 sapier or the better option, fix it
14:38 celeron55 VargaD: any core dev can set and oversee a release; the only one who really cares to do that is hmmmm so you might wait to ask him (or request it)
14:40 VargaD thanks celeron55, I just wanted to understand minetest development better
14:41 celeron55 i guess there could be a better description somewhere...
14:43 sapier true :-) Imho release procedure is chaotic :-)
14:44 celeron55 i've always called this the "minetest chaos development model"
14:44 sapier quite suitable description
14:44 celeron55 it started pretty soon right when the first contributors came and i haven't figured out how to make it non-chaotic since then 8)
14:45 sapier I don't think that'd give better results, by now we at least tried to get worst bugs out prior releasing
14:46 sapier btw celeron hope you don't develop reliable communications protocols nowadays ;-)
14:46 celeron55 sapier: it was my first-ever attempt in making one; i'm surprised you could even bother to fix it
14:47 sapier I think I got it :-)
14:47 sapier but if I want to do reliable communication to old clients I have to do very very bad things :-)
14:48 sapier send --> waitforack --> sendnext
14:48 sapier at least I can do this per channel and per peer so old clients wouldn't slow down new ones ... and tcp is evolving right now too maybe a first prototype is ready this year
14:51 sapier why drop em if it's possible to keep?
14:52 sapier most ppl (except of developers) greatly appreciate compatibility ;-)
14:53 sapier no it doesn't actually fixing the old protocol gave me ability to do a better design for tcp
14:54 sapier /usr/share/wireshark/init.lua
14:54 sapier if you want to do this you may be interested in my improved version of it
14:55 sapier I added the new messages (at least the names)
14:55 sapier no you have to add a dofile at end
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14:59 celeron55 http://wiki.wireshark.org/Lua <- that recommends using tshark flag -X
15:00 celeron55 wireshark (the gui) takes the same kind of option
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17:24 VargaD sapier: what do you plan to send on tcp and waht on udp?
17:24 sapier same thing as now unreliables are sent through udp while reliable date will be sent through tcp
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18:05 VargaD I'm wondering, where does the minetest name come form?
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18:43 Calinou it was supposed to be a "test"
18:44 sapier wasn't minetest designed to be perfect? *smile*
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19:30 ShadowNinja #1074 seems good, with the last line change removed.
19:30 ShadowBot https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/1074
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19:38 sapier for old clients nothing will change but for all new ones (with enabled tcp support) reliable data will be sent through tcp only
19:46 ShadowNinja Older clients will still get faster UDP though, right?
19:47 sapier if you are talking about my udp fixes yes but due to compatibility reasons old clients using udp may not benefit as much as I was hoping
19:47 ShadowNinja And this will be in a library that MT links to so that other applications can use it, right?
19:48 sapier there's a bug in current udp reliability handling breaking it on high packet loss, only way to do reliable communication to old clients is send one by one
19:48 sapier not by now
19:49 sapier splitting it to a library would be another 1-2 weeks of work
19:53 sapier to make this a library design needs to be way more clean then even my fixed version is
19:55 ShadowNinja O.K. That's a project for you to work on as soon as it works. :-)  And what do you think about that PR?
19:56 sapier haven't had a look at it by now
19:56 sapier that simple?
19:57 ShadowNinja Should be.  I looked into the Rollback error and it was SQLite complaining that the directory didn't exist.
19:58 sapier did you try it?
19:58 ShadowNinja Nope, not yet.
19:59 sapier if you wanna merge it you should try it first, I'm busy writing tcp support right now
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