[sldev] Re: Feature freeze

[Lawson English]

Henri Beauchamp wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 15:06:50 +0100, Robin Cornelius wrote:
>
>   
>> On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Matthew Dowd <matthew.dowd at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> .../...
>>
>> It would be really cool if we could feature freeze for a little while
>> and chase some bugs out of the system to get things really stable
>> before adding more new things.
>>     
>
> Hear, hear !!!
>
> I can only second it !
>
> Yes, pretty please, DO feature freeze SL and DO hunt down every known bug
> before resuming the development of new features.
>
> And for one, I won't mind if the "little while" was counted in months, as
> long as it means stable, bugless viewer and server in the end !
>
>   

Well, some bugs and source code oddities in the graphics subsystem were 
automatically fixed/corrected by the Windlight team, so its 
counter-productive to say "no new features" when new features are going 
to fix certain bugs/issues for free as part of deploying said new feature.

An even more drastic proposal on MY part is to refactor the  client with 
clean divisions of the GUI and the other subsystems, but for some 
reason, few programmers who contribute to SL apparently see a need for 
this...


#caps_lock_on
I personally see it as the single most important thing that could ever 
possibly be done to make the Second Life viewer more bugfree,
#caps_lock_off

but, YMMV.


Lawson