[sldev] Documenting the viewer source

Mike Monkowski monkowsk at watson.ibm.com
Mon Jul 21 16:07:09 PDT 2008


Rob Lanphier wrote:
> *  The need for better documentation on the wiki.  I'd like to focus 
> your attention on this page:
> https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Viewer_Architecture
> 
> The page in-and-of-itself isn't as important as all of the info it links 
> to.   The "Viewer Architecture" page itself probably isn't above some 
> reorganization though, but most importantly, adding cross-links to 
> current information is something that anyone here could do.  For 
> example, there's also this page:
> https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Viewer_Roadmap
> 
> ...and it's subpages.  The subpages of each of these could stand to be 
> cross-linked.  Also there's this page:
> https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Viewer_Software_Overview
> 
> ....which kinda duplicates Viewer Architecture, and the two should 
> probably be merged.  A Linden can do this work (and I might just tackle 
> it), but hey, it's a wiki, and you all have the power.  So, any volunteers?

Actually, I like having Viewer Architecture and Viewer Software Overview 
separate.  It's kind of a design versus implementation separation.  But 
I did add the cross-links between the pages.  The Viewer Roadmap links 
were already there.

I still have to add a page for Culling, which I've had a rough draft of 
for several months now.  :-)

Mike


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