Meeting minutes 2018-08-05

[nathan]

2018-08-05

Members present: Brian, James Harkins, Josh, Nathan, Patrick, Scott Carver

• Status of the 3.10 release:
  • Linux help browser shortcuts fixed
  • Help browser shortcut almost fixed
  • SerialPort almost done
  • FileDialog hangup and SCIDE look and feel still not started
• Josh have been working on package manager for plugins
• James is working on Score/NRT helpfile improvements
• Brian suggested that we release beta this week, documenting the 2 remaining issues
• Issue + PR templates: good idea, a bit too long right now
• File object, File APIs
• Time for a new logo?
• Resurrecting the UI refresh branch
• Design documents as a method for preventing pull requests that attract huge amounts of nitpicky comments
• Nathan brought up a safe output clipping proposal
• Patrick is having a bizarre issue with the help browser

This week:

• Merge SerialPort and the Cmd+Enter help browser
• Release beta with “known issues list”
• Josh will take initiative on logo redesign
• Nathan will work on SCIDE
• Scott will work on FileDialog
• Put out a user survey

[capogreco]

@nathan

Time for a new logo?

are there more details about this? what are people thinking / feeling re: SuperCollider logo?

[spacetimed]

An actual supercollider may be a good starting point.

[cian]

But maybe not the image that was used on the Megadeth album.

[spacetimed]

Ha! I hadn’t seen that. OK, well some way of finding commonality between graphical forms associated with a literal supercollider, computation, music and audio would be good. This kind of thing would make sense as an influence because of the loops and patterns etc:

[nathan]

i’m not ready to open discussion on this yet just because logo conversations tend to get very passionate and overshadow more important things, such as the upcoming 3.10 release

[cian]

Clearly the new logo should be the dancing parrot:
Cult of the Party Parrot

[shiihs]

Tuzki climbing the learning curve…
tuzki

[josh]

I created a Party Totoro: