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05:37 sofar If anyone is wondering, I'm aware my server is down atm. Will look at it tomorrow.
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07:23 lissobone Guys, I've got 8 genious ideas.
07:28 lissobone I've finally remembered what is the 8th one.
07:29 lissobone I'll start with the first one.
07:29 lissobone 1. Make a thruster in minetest (currently in process of doing so).
07:33 lissobone A thruster is the part of a spacecraft that produces thrust by ejecting matter at a fast pace.
07:33 lissobone I know how to implement it, but I need some help.
07:34 lissobone I want the thruster to require propellant in order to function.
07:35 lissobone Wait, I've got an idea. I'll take a look at how technic made their batteries.
07:35 lissobone The epic idea number 2:
07:36 lissobone Create artificial gravity in minetest.
07:36 lissobone I think that I will get kicked for spam if I continue any further.
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11:09 Abdou-31 Hi folks!
11:09 MTDiscord <Abdou-31> nice, it's working!
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11:31 MTDiscord <GoodClover> hey, could I get a wiki account please? Preferably with username 'olive'. Forum post got no reply (and it says to ask on IRC) https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&amp;t=10473
11:32 MTDiscord <ROllerozxa> I would very much like one too, see topic
11:35 Abdou-31 I've read that if someone has set an avatar on gravatar.com they don't need to add a profile picture on github, but it doesn't work for me
11:35 Abdou-31 I use the same email on both websites
11:37 pjalsDaniel[m] iirc you need to set a specific option for that to work
11:39 Abdou-31 on github or on gravatar?
11:44 Abdou-31 changed it manually
11:45 Abdou-31 searched on google how to link github with gravatar but got no good result
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12:51 lissobone Just set the same avatar on github.
12:56 lissobone I've still got the same question.
12:56 lissobone Oh, hi, beanzilla, by the way.
12:56 lissobone What audio editor should I better use? I want to make an error sound for my new thruster mod.
12:57 lissobone When there's not enough propellant, it throws an error and refuses to propel the player.
12:57 rubenwardy GoodClover: done
12:57 lissobone Should I just stick with ffmpeg?
12:57 rubenwardy it's Olive as names need to begin with a capital
12:57 lissobone Minetest wiki account??
12:58 lissobone Sounds prestige.
12:58 rubenwardy lissobone: I use audacity
12:58 lissobone Well, I was thinking of it.
12:58 lissobone I'll try it (once again, as I already used it when generating sh***post in 2018).
12:59 lissobone while*.
12:59 rubenwardy GoodClover: you should receive two emails, one for each of the wikis
12:59 lissobone Oh, by the way, I've got a question regarding minetest websites.
13:00 lissobone So, I've seen a modding guide (like yours, but 3 times smaller) on minetest.org. But there's also minetest.net, which appears to be the actual minetest website.
13:00 lissobone Well, it doesn't appear to be, it is the website.
13:00 lissobone And the main page of minetest.org...
13:00 lissobone It frightens me.
13:00 lissobone It says "final minetest". What is that?
13:00 rubenwardy minetest .org is a malicious domain, the person was banned for harassment, spam, and other things
13:01 lissobone Yeah, I've noticed the harassment.
13:01 rubenwardy the modding guide is an outdated version of my one
13:01 lissobone They called celeron55 a rather bad word, mocking his real name.
13:01 rubenwardy Bing banned rubenwardy.com a year ago, and it's only just been readded. So the .org version is a higher result on bing :(
13:03 MTDiscord <ROllerozxa> ooo wiki account time :D
13:03 lissobone rubenwardy.org appears to redirect to your actual website from which I read your modding book.
13:03 rubenwardy minetest .org
13:03 rubenwardy I own rubenwardy.org
13:03 lissobone I know.
13:03 lissobone But minetest.org is the
13:03 lissobone That website.
13:04 lissobone I'll just stick with my personal favorite ffmpeg since I've always used it to make sounds for my (few) mods.
13:06 lissobone Why do they call minetest from the '.net' site 'trolltest'?
13:07 lissobone I really like how they proclaim that minetest is fading away nowadays because of conflicting goals.
13:07 MTDiscord <ROllerozxa> don't get lost in that rabbit hole
13:08 lissobone My head aches. I'll just continue making the Thruster.
13:08 lissobone I always had a dream of traversing three-dimensional space without any air resistance and gravity.
13:09 lissobone I'll have to add special physics overrides for that to work.
13:09 rubenwardy lissobone: detachment from reality
13:10 lissobone I remember playing some 2d mobile game on my old phone in 2014 about building spacecrafts and then launching them, completing various missions.
13:10 lissobone But I can't find it anymore.
13:10 lissobone It was fun.
13:10 lissobone I even hacked it to get unlimited perks.
13:11 lissobone Wow, "Most peo­ple were anonymous, many were hos­tile to everybody, and some were mentally ill".
13:11 lissobone I didn't notice that.
13:12 lissobone This community is literally the nicest place on the entire internet.
13:12 lissobone Well, maybe I haven't seen something important yet...
13:12 rubenwardy the number one most toxic thing that has ever happened to this community is the person that made minetest .org
13:13 lissobone Is it, like, a troll? A giga-prank that has gone wrong?
13:15 lissobone One of the features they list: "Full integration of 3D Armor and the skins system". WOW! They managed to preinstall skinsdb (or simple skins (or literally anything else that provides skins)) and 3d_armor! Unbelieveable, I'm stunned!
13:17 rubenwardy yeah, final minetest is 0.4 + mods.   They forked Minetest but didn't really have any C++ knowledge
13:17 lissobone ohohno my ribs
13:17 lissobone theyhurt
13:17 lissobone Well, I am fine now.
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13:38 lissobone I have made the error sound.
13:38 lissobone (This probably was very unnecessary of me).
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15:08 lissobone Guys.
15:09 lissobone I have joined some channel ran by oldcoder.
15:09 lissobone I am descending into the rabbit hole (with safety precautions, of course).
15:09 rubenwardy don't poke the bear
15:12 MTDiscord <Warr1024> I don't know what "safety precautions" might mean, but I hope you have some idea of what you need to be prepared against in order to be sure that they're adequate for the task.
15:12 lissobone Safety precautions like:
15:12 lissobone A specil climbing rope.
15:12 lissobone Specil hooks.
15:12 lissobone Specil gas mask (just in case I get bombed with chlorine).
15:12 lissobone Specil hands.
15:12 lissobone Mechanical hands.
15:13 MTDiscord <Warr1024> If you just had one of those bionic commando arms then you wouldn't need any of that stuff except for the gas mask maybe.
15:13 lissobone No, just mechanical arms.
15:13 MTDiscord <Warr1024> Every arm is mechanical 😆
15:14 lissobone With joints, tendons and stuff.
15:14 lissobone Yeah, like that.
15:14 lissobone And partially metallic bones.
15:14 lissobone (All bones are partially metallic).
15:15 lissobone Are alkali earths considered metals?
15:15 lissobone The bear doesn't react to active poking.
15:16 lissobone I have seemingly stunned him with [DATA PLUNGED].
15:16 lissobone Oh no.
15:16 lissobone He is doing an illegal move.
15:17 lissobone Time to utilize the specil safety precautions.
15:17 MTDiscord <Warr1024> I think when people say "don't poke they bear" they mean "do not speak to, or look directly at the bear, or make any visible movements", not just "be polite" or something.
15:17 lissobone I left and now I feel bad for them.
15:17 lissobone But I won't return.
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15:23 MTDiscord <Warr1024> There's a lot of bad blood left over from that conflict, and it's best just not to touch any of it or get any on you.
15:26 MTDiscord <Warr1024> And to be fair, any community, including this one, can have people who are rude or hostile, and new conflicts can happen if the right circumstances arise again.  But at least any future bad blood is not a foregone conclusion, and if we make the right choices we probably have a lot of influence over whether it happens or not.
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15:55 MTDiscord <GoodClover> gah, why on Earth does the dev wiki not use the same translation system as the regular one?
15:57 MTDiscord <ROllerozxa> /shrug why on earth does the regular and dev wiki need to be separate to begin with
15:57 MTDiscord <GoodClover> or it may just lack it altogether
15:57 MTDiscord <GoodClover> yeah, unifying them would be great
15:57 MTDiscord <ROllerozxa> pretty sure the dev wiki does have translations, but they aren't well used
15:58 MTDiscord <GoodClover> The regular wiki uses some MediaWiki plugin for the bar at the top, the dev one dosen't have that and so has a manual page
15:58 MTDiscord <GoodClover> (which is presently broken)
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16:01 rubenwardy the dev wiki doesn't have many pages any more
16:01 rubenwardy would be nice to unify them
16:02 MTDiscord <Warr1024> The dev wiki sort of feels like a thing that shouldn't even exist, and all the information that's on it and isn't already in /doc in the repo should just be merged into there.
16:03 rubenwardy Meetings is useful
16:06 ROllerozxa organisational pages like the meetings page can be on the regular wiki but maybe behind an usergroup lock or something if regular users should be discouraged from editing them
16:06 ROllerozxa ...eh not that it matters considering wiki registrations aren't open to begin with
16:07 MTDiscord <Warr1024> Well, "should either be merged into /doc OR moved to the regular wiki" then might be fair.
16:08 MTDiscord <Warr1024> Maintaining 2 wikis isn't twice the work as maintaining 1, but it's gotta be at least SOME extra work.
16:12 lissobone Why not just place a message that would tell the user that this wiki is deprecated and soon will probably be merged into the regular wiki?
16:18 ROllerozxa well I guess there's more amount of work maintaining it for c55, which for us means one will be more broken than the other (code blocks and language selectors and whatnot...)
16:19 ROllerozxa the dev wiki also has some interesting general engine documentation which for a lack of better place would move to the regular wiki. putting it in doc/ would make it subject to PR review and those take some time...
16:20 ROllerozxa like, https://github.com/minetest/minetest/pull/12749 which apparently doesn't even have roadmap approval, whatever that means for *pieces of documentation*
16:23 MTDiscord <Warr1024> Honestly we should just make an exception to the PR review requirements (i.e. make it just one core dev approval) when it's specifically documentation that already exists and people are already relying on anyway, merely being moved from one place to another.
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16:25 Guest507 hi
16:25 muurkha hi
16:25 MTDiscord <ROllerozxa> hi
16:26 Guest507 I wrote to the forum for the translation of the wiki page, it is being looked at, right?
16:26 Guest507 I was told to write to this irc channel
16:33 muurkha I wonder who would be looking at it
16:33 ROllerozxa it is being looked at by our highly trained mese powered robots
16:34 ROllerozxa Warr1024: such a PR review exception could extend to all documentation-only PRs really, only one coredev review required (alternatively a single different coredev, if the author is a coredev themselves) as to speed things up a bit with a drought of active coredevs
16:36 MTDiscord <Warr1024> ...maybe.  It smells a little slippery-slopey.  I have to assume we have the standards for a reason, like the risk of somebody introducing incorrect documentation.  In the case of just moving docs, I don't think there's a major difference in the expectation of correctness or reliability between the dev wiki and the repo docs, so if we do end up moving something inaccurate or outdated into the repo, it won't be making a bad situation
16:36 MTDiscord notably worse.
16:39 MTDiscord <Warr1024> Really, the biggest problem might be the fact that core devs are expected to write PRs, but aren't given credit for reviewing PRs.  The only core dev that I'm aware of MT having ever actually "fired" was somebody who was trying to focus most of their time on review and approval work, and rarely ever wrote new PRs.
16:40 MTDiscord <Warr1024> The system rewards participants for creating PRs, while discouraging them from actually reviewing them by taking away time that could be spent writing PRs.  If I wanted to create a massive pileup of unreviewed PRs, I'd be very hard pressed to come up with another system.
16:40 definitelya Solution: add high-scores for the most proficient reviewers.
16:40 definitelya kek
16:41 ROllerozxa coredevs getting fired would imply they are employed and getting paid
16:42 MTDiscord <Warr1024> It's really hard to build objective metrics for reviewing effectiveness, since it depends a lot on the quality of the PRs themselves.  So somebody could easily just review a bunch of already-good PRs and get a lot of credit for pushing through merges, while somebody who does a lot of work to shepherd a few originally-shoddy PRs to the point where they get merged wouldn't get much credit for that work.
16:44 muurkha a solution adopted by ZeroMQ was to approve every PR as fast as possible with no review
16:44 muurkha people would compete to approve PRs faster than other people
16:44 muurkha once it was merged into master, though, they had to fix it
16:45 muurkha they explicitly didn't try to keep bad code from getting ito master
16:45 muurkha *into
16:45 muurkha they just tried to fix it as fast as possible if it did
16:46 MTDiscord <GoodClover> Hm, so code maintained like wiki pages?
16:47 muurkha pretty much
16:47 MTDiscord <GoodClover> A few older git hosts allow creation of a branch that any user can edit
16:48 MTDiscord <GoodClover> Avoiding the whole PR process, eventually changes are copied from there to master
16:48 ROllerozxa agile dev go wheee
16:48 ROllerozxa ...and then crashes into a concrete wall
16:49 ROllerozxa eh, or maybe not
16:49 MTDiscord <GoodClover> tinycc uses that exclusively now as the original dev no longer works on it
16:53 lissobone The thruster works.
16:54 lissobone I just need to add sound effects and usage cost.
16:54 lissobone And maybe rework the texture.
16:54 lissobone It looks horrible.
16:54 lissobone It's like a portal gun, but also laser machine gun from terraria.
17:11 lissobone I have completely disabled any gravity and deceleration.
17:11 lissobone Now I just fly like in vacuum.
17:14 lissobone Oh no.
17:14 lissobone I actually feel nauseous.
17:15 lissobone I shouldn't associate myself with Sam that much.
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17:16 lissobone I even had an idea of cosplaying him (actually possible).
17:20 MTDiscord <Warr1024> I've actually changed merge policy a lot over time with NodeCore.  Early on I flew a lot by the seat of my pants and added and removed stuff very easily.  Now that the project is mature and has an audience actually relying on it, I have to put some care into my changes.  I think that's just the natural creep of a project: the agility that it uses early on to gain success ends up causing, through that success, a loss of agility.
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17:30 muurkha Warr1024: that can happen
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19:34 MTDiscord <freelikegnu> Beta branch it 🙂
19:41 MTDiscord <freelikegnu> It would nice if there was a "staging" release of Minetest with less stringent PR merge requirement so that folks could easily try these PRs without having to merge themselves as is done with WINE.
19:42 MTDiscord <Warr1024> Anyone could run one.  I used to run one for my own personal use.  I would just periodically pull from upstream master and re-cherry-pick some PRs that I liked on top of it.  Had a script that didn't require all that much intervention.
19:50 MTDiscord <freelikegnu> Some semi-official status of a Staging release could encouage submitters to rebase as master progresses
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19:52 MTDiscord <freelikegnu> too many PRs just wither from having to rebase over the long approval process
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20:01 MTDiscord <freelikegnu> Semi-official meaning having a download link on the Minetest download page
20:02 MTDiscord <freelikegnu> Maybe a catchy name like Minetesting
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20:18 MTDiscord <GoodClover> Call it Minerelease, just to confuse people
20:19 MTDiscord <Warr1024> Looks kinda like Mineral-ease, which would be a decent name for a mineral-oil-based laxative.
20:21 Pexin looks like 2 people pulling on something fighting over it. mine! release!
20:25 MTDiscord <GoodClover> pulling & fighting over something? you mean a pull request?
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20:32 MTDiscord <freelikegnu> Mesemess
20:35 MTDiscord <freelikegnu> I like to say Minetest is pronounced like Minet-est as if "she is a playful cat"
20:35 MTDiscord <freelikegnu> or being the most Minet game
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21:01 definitelya Minet and and the Aristo... tests?
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21:07 Desour so many good alternative names for minetest, but without "test"
21:08 sfan5 mesetint
21:08 Desour 5.0.0 would've been the perfect time to rename to minerelease
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21:09 Pexin tru
21:09 Desour 2 more suggestions: minetset (easier to type for me apparently), meintest (anagram)
21:11 Pexin YourMese
21:11 Desour meinmese
21:11 Pexin as in YOU make game u want
21:12 Pexin yourmine
21:12 Pexin kek
21:13 Desour meinemine
21:13 definitelya wtftest
21:13 definitelya u may have 1 vowel.
21:13 Desour the f in wtf is unpopular in schools and other circles
21:14 Pexin i pick one w umlauts
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21:14 definitelya Of course, it would stand for "what the fork"!
21:14 definitelya *grins*
21:14 Desour or "want to fork"
21:15 Desour wtfthis
21:15 Pexin in all srs, YourVox
21:15 definitelya jkjk... unless?
21:15 rubenwardy mineprod
21:15 definitelya Ok I need slep.
21:15 Desour vöxel
21:15 Pexin voxbox
21:15 Desour rubenwardy: what's prod?
21:16 rubenwardy production
21:16 Pexin test -> production
21:16 rubenwardy you often have test and prod environments
21:16 definitelya Alien prodding is not allowed by celeron, I think.
21:17 Pexin while back i looked up what would be the gernan fot "tunnelbuilder" but do not memory
21:17 Desour !tell definitelya ^ citation needed
21:17 MinetestBot Desour: I'll pass that on when definitelya is around
21:17 Desour tunnelbauer
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21:36 MinetestBot definitelya: Oct-19 21:17 UTC <Desour> ^ citation needed
21:37 Desour oh, MinetestBot you're doing your job today?
21:43 MTDiscord <freelikegnu> So many of these names would be great for release version names.  Peppy Prodtest, Ticklish Tunnelbauer, Mocking Minerelease
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