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

[Aleric Inglewood]

Hi Oz,

I already communicated this clearly to merov, but I'll summarize it here:

As you can see from
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AgvC7hm5YZqcdHVXb05iTE0wTFc0bWptTW4tOTZuS3c&hl=en&ui=2#gid=0
all my patches larger than one line, being

VWR-14914 (SNOW-673)
SNOW-84 (SNOW-546),
SNOW-103 (SNOW-688),
SNOW-240,
SNOW-129 (SNOW-670)
SNOW-408,
SNOW-477,
VWR-12984 (SNOW-643)

were like .. ignored.

Merov ported VWR-14914, and I even helped with two others
because my friends started porting it... but basically:

I'm not stupid and I try not to make the same mistake twice.
Therefore, I won't port my patches to 2.0 (for them to be ignored,
again in 3.0 or God knows), certainly not considering that I'm
not even using 2.0 (for reasons pointed out by others).

So, to answer your question, in order to get me to contribute
to 2.0 Linden Lab will have to get their payed coders to port
my patches to 2.0 external (not SG, but the real thing), AND
fix the UI of 2.0 so it becomes interesting for me to use it
instead of 1.x).

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:50 PM, Oz Linden (Scott Lawrence) <
oz at lindenlab.com> wrote:

> 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
>
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