Short Range Comms call transfer system

[Lilith-NightRose]

Short Range Comms call transfer system

[alexanderson1993]

I hesitate to green light this since it would be a pretty breaking change for the way the station currently operates. We'd need to get buy-in from the individual space centers to make sure this doesn't affect their flow, or at very least have a configuration option where you can turn on this feature, and have it off by default.

[Lilith-NightRose]

Hmm. That makes sense. I'd definitely be totally open to implementing this as an entirely opt-in feature (probably part of the sim config). Is there a concern that even that could cause breaking changes?

I noticed that there exists a schema for "shortRangeCommExtended" in ./server/typedefs/shortRangeComm.ts. Is that currently being used, or would it work to use that schema as a sort of "second SR comms option"?

Finally, is this something I can hack around with now and expect to be able to relatively easily modify my solution to fit once the codebase has been reworked, or should I just hold off even approaching the issue until that process has been started?

[alexanderson1993]

Implementing it as an opt-in feature shouldn't introduce any breaking changes.

Looks like ShortRangeCommExtended isn't being used anywhere. I wouldn't use it for a "Second SR comms" - I think that's a bad plan. Any additions should be made to the ShortRangeComm GraphQL type.

Any new feature development can be made on the develop branch like normal. I think I'll do all of the Thorium 4.0 work in an entirely separate branch until it's time to release it. Any work done on the mainline branch will just be ported over eventually. So go ahead an implement it whenever you feel like.