clholgat/AYAB developer meeting notes May 14th

## AYAB developer meeting notes May 14th
# Meeting notes

## Agenda
- Status
- Progress

## Status
- Carson - looking at state machine bugs
- Chris/Tom - changes to build workflow bundling firmware in desktop package. Should be working soon. Workaround for now for development. Looking for something more sophisticated option for the future.
- Sam - We need both bundled and grabbing newer versions. Github actions needs permissions to get the list needs to give to app. Downloading needs a different permissions.
- Adrienne - watching attentively waiting for good builds to start testing. Chris might have a build later today.

## To build a bundle
- Need to update config and setup a tagged release build

## Next steps
- Trigger a build
- Test the issues that are ready for test

## Vintage Computer Festival West
- Beginning of August
- Looking for more volunteers from the local guild
- Carson giving a talk
- Should we tweet about it? Chris has access can tweet.
- Maybe post on Facebook because that's where the community is

## Build issues with [FBS](https://build-system.fman.io/)
- Had to patch fbs, limited to Python 3.6
- Hobby version of fbs is 50 euros, Tom willing to foot the bill.
- FBS packages qt appliction as an executable
- Hobbyist liscense is only for 1 person, then the rest of us can't use it
- Not really an issue yet but might be in the future
- If we go with FBS pro then people can't just clone and use the repo, defeats the purpose of open source
- Sticking with the free version until we can't any more
- Needed to be patched to deal with Windows build issues, currently maintained in a local fork
- Not on the latest version of FBS because of the way that we're naming releases is not compatible. Going to upgrade after 1.0 release.

## Web app
- Needs prototyping to make sure we can communicate with the USB
- Some APIs for Chrome only
- We might need a desktop app to handle the USB communication
- Hosting the complete software on the board and then just connecting to it over wifi. (ESP32)
- Not mutually exclusive with building a web app
- Table until 2.0

- Carson to setup next meeting.
	# Meeting notes

	## Agenda
	- Status
	- Progress

	## Status
	- Carson - looking at state machine bugs
	- Chris/Tom - changes to build workflow bundling firmware in desktop package. Should be working soon. Workaround for now for development. Looking for something more sophisticated option for the future.
	- Sam - We need both bundled and grabbing newer versions. Github actions needs permissions to get the list needs to give to app. Downloading needs a different permissions.
	- Adrienne - watching attentively waiting for good builds to start testing. Chris might have a build later today.

	## To build a bundle
	- Need to update config and setup a tagged release build

	## Next steps
	- Trigger a build
	- Test the issues that are ready for test

	## Vintage Computer Festival West
	- Beginning of August
	- Looking for more volunteers from the local guild
	- Carson giving a talk
	- Should we tweet about it? Chris has access can tweet.
	- Maybe post on Facebook because that's where the community is

	## Build issues with [FBS](https://build-system.fman.io/)
	- Had to patch fbs, limited to Python 3.6
	- Hobby version of fbs is 50 euros, Tom willing to foot the bill.
	- FBS packages qt appliction as an executable
	- Hobbyist liscense is only for 1 person, then the rest of us can't use it
	- Not really an issue yet but might be in the future
	- If we go with FBS pro then people can't just clone and use the repo, defeats the purpose of open source
	- Sticking with the free version until we can't any more
	- Needed to be patched to deal with Windows build issues, currently maintained in a local fork
	- Not on the latest version of FBS because of the way that we're naming releases is not compatible. Going to upgrade after 1.0 release.

	## Web app
	- Needs prototyping to make sure we can communicate with the USB
	- Some APIs for Chrome only
	- We might need a desktop app to handle the USB communication
	- Hosting the complete software on the board and then just connecting to it over wifi. (ESP32)
	- Not mutually exclusive with building a web app
	- Table until 2.0

	- Carson to setup next meeting.