[opensource-dev] Final build for Snowstorm Sprint 2

[Trilo Byte]

Absolutely, regressions are a part of the development process.  Usually they're discovered and tweaks/fixes are applied within the next couple builds.  That has unfortunately not happened here -  it first appeared in build 208569, was reported to Tofu and discussed on list as well as in JIRA, and has not yet been fixed.  Now there's all this talk of "final build" and release, it would be a tragedy (and overshadow a lot of really good work)  to push 2.1.2 out without fixing that.

On Aug 31, 2010, at 9:43 AM, Oz Linden (Scott Lawrence) wrote:

> On 2010-08-31 10:25, Trilo Byte wrote:
>> I tested this build yesterday, anti-aliasing (an essential feature for SL photography and shooting machinima, as well as a preferred setting for many residents) is still broken.  Releasing this would be a significant step backwards, in my opinion.
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> There's a difference between 'releasing' a Development build and other categories of viewers (Project, Beta, or Release; see https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Viewer_Types ).
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> We actually do not want to apply the 'normal' standard that a Development build can't have any regressions in it - that would make it equivalent to a Beta or Released build.   Clearly, we don't want to promote a build with regressions to one of those higher levels, but putting it out as a Development build with the appropriate caveats is a means of _finding_ those regressions.
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