[sldev] sljirastats.com Linden Metrics Report & Public Perception

Strife Onizuka blindwanderer at gmail.com
Sat Apr 19 04:58:09 PDT 2008


They gets grumpy when you assign patches to people. I've only ever
assigned one patch to a linden and that was SVC-1241. Don Linden is a
scripting guru so when I came across some badly written, buggy dead
code in LSL VM, I thought he would be the guy to assign it to. I was
then told that doing so delayed it getting imported ~_~ . SVC-1241
hasn't been fixed and the offending code has not been fixed or removed
(I submitted two patches, one to remove it the other to fix it).

I don't know if all my patches actually work, some of the more
involved VM patches are hard to test without getting really involved
and mostly I only go after low hanging fruit (like VWR-4111 ). Mostly
I stare at the code until something jumps out at me as wrong. I don't
submit a large number of patches and I don't think they are all of the
greatest of quality; I'm sure there is someone whose patches are
better then mine and more prolific that you can use as an example.

I've just read the Nic's before mentioned blog post and I too have
been feeling uneasy, though not to that extent. With Philip stepping
down and Cory having left it worries me greatly (there was a program
on PBS about 10 years ago "Triumph of the Nerds" about Silicon Valley
and some venture capitalists were saying that once the business grows
you sack the founders, i think there were talking about HP). It
suggests to me that while the monkeys are at their typewriters the
investors are quietly running the show from the back room; but I'm not
cynical enough to believe that. What ever is going on the name of the
game is changing or we are just beginning to see what the game really
is. Frankly I don't like whats going on but there aren't enough facts
for me to draw a definitive conclusion. There is a slippery slope to
madness and paranoia here, the easiest thing you can do, which is what
Nic did, was to quit while your ahead. But still it makes me uneasy.

There is much I'm thinking but not saying. PR wise, LL is in a bad
spot, mostly of their own design. People are claiming LL is being
negligent in it's community minded programs and suggesting they were a
bluff to pacify the masses. No matter how you look at those words are
intended to hurt; they are hard to refute.

But I don't care for the politics so much anymore, I've paid my dues,
I've got the t-shirt, I've been in the trenches and until my prize
expires, I have retired to my beach hut. The things I still do are me
just going through the motions and keeping my hand in the game.

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 6:11 PM, Carsten Juttner <carjay at gmx.net> wrote:
> Jason Giglio wrote:
>
> > I don't know.  It may help, but it doesn't address the root cause of the
> > problem:  That Linden Lab views themselves as a separate entity from the
> > community; that the community development process is completely outside
> > the actual development of the client.
> >
>
>  True and that's actually my problem currently, too. I don't care that much
> about my patches not getting in the viewer but more about the lack of
> communication between Linden developers and OS developers. I see sldev and
> JIRA as a communication platform.
>
>  But if you e.g. submit a source code bug on JIRA it can happen that the
> comment is read by a non-developer Linden first who simply marks the bug as
> "needs more info - resolved" instead of assigning it to the appropriate
> developer(s). I can understand that developers are unwillling to take a look
> at all the user provided JIRA entries but at least "source code" entries
> should be treated differently.
>
>  Sometimes, there's not a reply at all. All of this is very frustrating.
>
>  The lack or fear of communication due to what seems to be some kind of
> "culture clash" problem (open source vs. commercial development) is one of
> the things that need to be tackled or a lot of good developers will simply
> turn away because they feel their efforts going nowhere.
>
>  That is not to say that there this is valid for all Lindens, quite
> contrary, some go out of their way to help the OS community, but they
> currently seem to be a noble exception.
>
>  Regards,
>  Carsten
>
>
>
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