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

[Carsten Juttner]

Strife Onizuka wrote:
> 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).
>   

Looking at the bug entry this is exactly what I am referring to. A clear 
description of a specific problem with the source code which is left 
unanswered by the developers.

Worse, from the comment that the person at Linden left it appears that 
you broke some rule and are now punished for it. Well, in my opinion it 
makes no sense to be able to assign bugs to developers at Linden if that 
is not wanted.

Personally, I am usually very hesitant trying to write a public patch 
for a subsystem which I do not fully understand since it invites bugs so 
I usually write a small bandaid fix for my own purposes to verify the 
issue then try to discuss the problem. Unfortunately that approach seems 
not to work so I guess in a few months my quilt folder will be full of 
small patches which make the viewer more stable on my system but never 
make it into the official viewer since the developers may not even have 
heard about it.

Thinking about your worries I guess they are founded but I also doubt it 
makes sense to discuss wild guesses and speculations about internal LL 
politics.

I simply enjoy looking at all the screws in the viewer and playing with 
them to learn more about the way a virtual environment works. So 
reporting and discussing problems that I find along the way seems only fair.

Regards,
Carsten