[sldev] Re: OS-SL Development Issues (was Upcoming viewer releases)

[Argent Stonecutter]

Dale Glass writes:
> My development environment is: SL on one monitor, IDE on another.  
> Paying
> attention to IRC is inconvenient, I'd idle all day even if I logged  
> in.
> Why not create a SL group instead?

SL groups have a lot of problems for this. I had to drop out of  
sculptie-dev in-world because
1. I'm already at 24 groups and I need to keep one free for vendors.
2. There's no log or history.
3. There's no way to be in-world without being online all the time to  
all your groups, friends, etcetera. It's like having a cellphone and  
GPS that's bonded to you and activates every time you leave your house.

In the IM box, for group IMs, we need a checkbox "listen for group  
IMs" that you can turn *off*.
We need "send group IMs to email", per group... and that needs to be  
sent as a *digest*. Possibly this needs to be enabled per group.
We need "IM only" groups that don't count against our 25 groups  
because they have no assets associated with them. Or perhaps, we need  
to set a group membership to "IM only"... if a group's set that way  
it's not checked for assets or permissions and doesn't count as one  
of the 25 groups.
Both these groups and regular groups also need a "group home  
location" and a "TP to group home" button, to let people go from "IM"  
to in-world chat.

> [12:05] Update server: Sending new version... [Dale Glass at
> secondlife://Perry/128/128/128]

Oh yes! God, this needs to be in the main viewer, so everyone can see:

[xx:xx] Copybot Protector version Random Number: !quit [Paranoid  
Idiot at secondlife://Some Sim/x/y/z]
[xx:xx] Lucky Chair: The new letter is 'X' and I'm going to spam you  
again from somewhere you can't figure out in 5 minutes! [Casino Owner  
at ...]

Nicolasz writes:
> The way I've heard about the state of Open Source projects in  
> general is
> that today they're more or less competing for the best (or any) heads
> out there.

Yep, and a lot of the heads also have their own projects.