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A developer conference took place on 2021-10-23 at 20:00 UTC. Only a few people were invited.
@orwell mentioned timetable system as one of the current priorities. In the future, when the timetable system is mature, it might be possible to change the signaling system in a way that respects timetables (e.g. to prioritize late trains).
@gpcf noted the following points regarding maintenance:
Currently most parts of advtrains does not come with unittests. This has led to multiple cases where the introduction of new features unintentionally broke existing setups. However, as advtrains is a large project, it should be expected that unittests will be added very slowly.
The development of the dlxtrains mod led to a discussion on the train livery system, which is currently very limited. The following solutions were discussed during the conference:
Additionally, @gpcf brought up a few points that should also be taken into consideration:
The following points were briefly discussed:
new-ks
branch will be removed as it is way too far from maturity.trainhud
branch is ready for review.punch
event, it should be possible to send a message to the player who punched the operation panel.