[opensource-dev] Migrating open development focus to 2.x

[Oz Linden (Scott Lawrence)]

I opened this in the 27 May IW open source meeting, and would like to 
invite wider and more specific feedback.

It's fairly clear that Linden Lab doesn't have the resources to devote 
to active work on both Snowglobe 1.x and 2.x, and it's not efficient for 
the community as a whole to be splitting effort.

I'd like to fairly quickly get to the point where all our new work is 
happening on the 2.x branch.  That said, I understand that might leave 
behind things that the Snowglobe user/dev base wants and that some 
people are not happy with some elements of 2.x.  What I'd like to know 
is... what needs to happen to make that choice that most people can be 
happy with?

One of my goals is to increase the rate and volume at which Linden Lab 
can (and _does_) take changes from the open source base into the 
internal code, but unless we can keep everyone on the same branch, that 
will be much more difficult.

Please respond to this thread with your favorite reasons not to move 
development to 2.x.   We will review the list at the 6 June open source 
meeting with the goal of setting some priorities.



To be clear... I don't object to anyone else working on 1.x at all; I'd 
just like to know why so that we can tempt them to join us on 2.x