[opensource-dev] Call for stability patches

[Kent Quirk (Q Linden)]

Hello, folks.

LL developers are busily working on the 2.1 release, which you can read about in Esbee's blog post here:

	http://blogs.secondlife.com/community/technology/blog/2010/05/05/on-the-road-to-viewer-21

Some of the things we're working on, as are mentioned there, are stability and performance. You can see the work going on in the viewer-external repository:

	https://svn.secondlife.com/svn/linden/branches/2010/viewer-external

which Merov has been syncing to our internal repository on a daily basis.

I'd like to ask for your help at several levels regarding the stability and performance patches:

* Looking in Merov's spreadsheet:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AgvC7hm5YZqcdHVXb05iTE0wTFc0bWptTW4tOTZuS3c&hl=en
and posting specific issues that we should be seriously considering. We'll be doing the same, but extra opinions would be welcome.

* Looking in JIRA to see if there are any neglected patches that have been contributed that we should be importing.

* Any new contributions you can offer.

If stability and performance conflict, stability wins. And although I know there are plenty of desired features, this isn't about that right now -- what I'm hoping for is some extra eyes on issues causing crashes or stalls or slowdowns.

Please note that in all cases, we can't take patches in to the official LL viewer where the contributor hasn't signed a contribution agreement. 

If you just want to point us at particular JIRA entries, feel free to do so in reply to this thread. If you have new code, please go through JIRA (and post a link here!).

I'll be at my usual office hours tomorrow (Wednesday) at 8 AM Pacific in Longfellow if you want to come talk about it.

Thanks,

    Q

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