[sldev] RE: Speed of adopting open practices (Re: IJIRA and PJIRA)

[Lawson English]

Matthew Dowd wrote:
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> So a possible scenario would be for LL to start development of SL 2.0 from scratch as a completely open source project whilst maintaining the existing SL 1.0 code until the new version is ready for production. You already have part of the community for that work in the AWG community (and possibly even the OpenSim community - although there are issues re incompatible licenses there). I'm not saying that this is necessarily a model that LL *must* adopt, but one I think LL should seriously think about.
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Yo, what do you think the OGP is?

While its going slower than anyone would like, the protocols to be used 
in OGP consist of entirely new protocols designed to work equally well 
with legacy code and whatever new protocols get incrementally added in 
plus the legacy protocols that haven't been addressed yet.


One important reason for doing it incrementally is that certain parts of 
the OGP should, without major tweaking to the existing code, give a 
[hopefully] huge boost to stability and concurrency for the system. 
Another reason, of course, is that Linden Lab doesn't have the resources 
to do two separate projects (if you want fully separate projects I refer 
you to OpenSim and realXtend, both of which are BSD-licensed).

Anyone who is unhappy with the speed at which the OGP is being 
developed, should join the Pyogp project (Apache v2 licensed). The 
faster we get a robust test harness designed and implemented, the faster 
the work on OGP will proceed. A side benefit will be the light-weight 
client that everyone is asking for since part of the design of Pyogp 
will be to keep legacy protocols available for regressions testing and 
simply to make the harness fully functional while the OGP is in such an 
early stage.

We've committed to having daily (or almost) meetings for a while to get 
the ball rolling. The first should start this Monday at 9:30 AM SLT. 
Check the IRC for the meeting place and any particulars.

Our first office hours with Enus Linden should be at 1 PM SLT this 
coming Friday.

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Lawson