[opensource-dev] The Plan for Snowglobe

[Oz Linden (Scott Lawrence)]

  On 2010-09-08 10:35, Mike Dickson wrote:
>    On 09/08/2010 10:04 AM, Oz Linden (Scott Lawrence) wrote:
>>     On 2010-09-08 9:43, Ponzu wrote:
>>> Will there be a "snowstorm" viewer?
>> Not by that name - there is a 'Development' viewer (available both from
>> the wiki and the secondlife.com download page) that is the current
>> viewer-development build.
>>
>> See https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Viewer_Types
>>
> So there's no plans for a "stabilized" Snowstorm?  It will always be a
> dev build?  How quickly would one expect code from a dev viewer to move
> to a beta and then released one?

The expectation is that the Development builds will be pretty stable.

When "enough" stuff has been integrated, it will be pulled to a Beta 
repository and the usual release process will ensue from there.  See 
https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Viewer_Integration_and_Release_Processes

What constitutes "enough" is something that's probably going to be kind 
of dynamic...