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

[Lawson English]

Matthew Dowd wrote:
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>> Yo, what do you think the OGP is?
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> Well to be honest I'm not sure ;-)
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> A question I posed in the very early days of AWG, and to which there didn't seem to be a definitive answer (it rather depended who you ask) was whether it was about a set of protocols to allow multiple virtual worlds to interoperate or about developing a new architecture for a SecondLife 2.0
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> The same applies to OGP - it seems very much focused on the protocols between VW viewer and server, and possible also betwen VW servers. There is nothing in OGP as far as I can tell about re-engineering the SL server or client architectures from scratch, and I could very well see a scenario where LL adds OGP support on top of the existing codebase or even just develop a protocol bridge between OGP and the current SL protocols.
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> So, my question to you - is OGP about developing some interoperable open protocols for VW grids and adding those protocol to the SL 1.0 codebase or is it about developing a new SL 2.0 from scratch viewing SL 1.0 as a prototype generating a wealth of knowledge and experience?
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well, yes.

;-)

Seriously, its a set of protocols (very limited at the moment) to 
facilitate grid interop, and it eventually will become the basis for a 
[more or less] complete redesign of the server architecture (I suspect) 
and  even further off, the client (I hope).


Lawson