23 Feb 2021


What We’re Going Over:

  • Bank Account
  • SIGs
  • Elections
  • ICPC
  • Room Bot
  • Byte-le Postmortem

What We Went Over:

  • Bank Account
    • Transfer has occurred
    • Need to create bank login for Sean
  • SIGs
    • Will send out email to gauge interest and determine availability
      • Create individual Doodle polls
    • SIG GDev
      • 3 weeks of learning sessions, 4th week game jam
      • Chris, possibly Sophie to lead
    • SIG Linux
      • Spencer and Chris to lead
    • SIG Git
      • Spencer and Sean to lead
      • Will wait until after spring break
    • SIG Study
      • Sophie to lead
  • Elections
    • Online through Discord on March 23 at 6:00 PM
    • Need each position to have at least one candidate
      • Advertise
    • Need to have election committee
      • Will hold election
      • 3 people ideal
  • Room Bot
    • Code mostly finished
    • Will assemble sensor by next week
  • ICPC
    • Need to send out email reminding teams to register
  • Byte-le Royale Postmortem
    • Similar level of issues to Market Space
      • Not the worst, but close. Lots of room for improvement.
    • Issues
      • Wren left early, only one with strong idea of final game design
        • In future design should be discussed in depth at start of development
        • All devs should understand plan and goals for game
      • Scrimmage Server
        • Major problems, needs rework or rewrite
      • Lack of accountability
        • Need more active role/better mentoring
        • Hierarchy brought up
          • Could result in conflict of egos
        • Potential for Scrum Master/Project Manager role
          • Create project guidelines, scrum master responsible for ensuring process is followed
          • May not solve development issues
      • Development Timeline
        • Critical components of game need to be finished sooner
        • Development should continue over the summer
        • Ideally allow several months for testing and balancing
      • Pull Requests
        • Need to be stricter
        • Weekly PR
          • Review, identify issues
          • Game must run, no partial implementations merged
          • Unit Tests put in place when introducing new feature
            • Test abnormal input
        • More people need to review
          • Tag at least two people to review
      • Visualizer
        • Needs to be started earlier
  • Bank Account - $458.00

To Accomplish By Next Meeting:

  • Create bank account login for Sean
  • Create Doodle polls
  • Complete Room Bot
  • Email remaining ICPC teams

Next Meeting:

  • Bank Account
  • SIGs
  • Elections
  • ICPC Postmortem
  • Room Bot