[sldev] Just askin': How are we doing?

[Matthew Dowd]

Am I right in that the voice firstlook source hasn't been made public yet? or have I just not looked in the right places?

Matthew




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> Subject: Re: [sldev] Just askin': How are we doing?
> From: seg at haxxed.com
> To: sldev at lists.secondlife.com
> Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 22:46:20 -0500
> 
> On Sun, 2007-06-24 at 18:08 -0700, Soft Linden wrote:
> > This raises a few questions for me. Firstly, from where you stand,
> > *are* we doing better overall?
> 
> There seems to be a marked improvement recently, yes. Only time will
> tell if LL will keep this up. :)
> 
> > Lastly, what can we still do better? Are there one or two things that
> > frustrate you the most, which we could make part of our third quarter
> > goals?
> 
> Jira's slowness and unreliability?
> 
> One concern is coordinating releases with downstream packagers. I'm
> working on getting slviewer into Fedora. It would be nice if we could
> get our hands on the final source code a day or two before a required
> update, so we can have it built and ready once the grid comes back up.
> Though then we'd also have to prepared to abort the update if LL decides
> to do so...
> 
> Ultimately it would be nice to just have required updates go away
> entirely, if I understand correctly, 1.18 is a step in that direction?
> At the very least, allowing some version overlap would solve most of the
> problem.
> 
> And... you know, it would be neat if maybe LL would put its weight
> behind advocating for Open Source OpenGL drivers. And maybe, just maybe,
> even put some development resources into them. The open source r300
> driver works beautifully for OpenArena, (Gee, I wonder what the
> developers are using as a test case :) but SL seems to be able to tickle
> the driver in ways it's not ready for, locking up the entire machine
> occasionally. (Or instantly, as the case is on my desktop machine...)
> 
> fglrx has yet to be updated to be compatible with Fedora 7, a prime
> example of the problem with closed source drivers...

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