[sldev] Code Dusting

[JB Kraft]

Hi all. I had some spare time today so I spent a few hours implementing
gridinfo class as a way to load other grids via an xml file into the login
panel. The hard coded ones were getting annoying as I jump from aditi, agni,
local, opensim, etc., and the mac burying the arguments.txt file is no help
either. So, tested, tada and I figured I'd create a patch for it and stick
it on the jira, but first I'd make sure it worked against the 1.20.8 code.
Well lo and behold, someone already did most of the work for this between
1.20.5 and 1.20.8 in llviewernetwork.*, etc. by creating a LLViewerLogin
class and at least making the lookup vectored, tho no xml load as of yet
that I can see. (I can add that tho ;)  Anyway, no big deal but it did give
me a shiver that I could have wasted a lot more time then I did, so I am
wondering where a list of trivial features like this for upcoming versions
might be available, if at all. I consider stuff like this cleaning rather
then a real feature addition and the JIRA seems like a good place for this
stuff to just get lost really. I don't know. It doesn't seem like something
Joe Resident would care about thats for sure but the code sure could use
this type of abstracting, refactoring, etc. So am I missing something? Do I
pore over the wiki and jira before doing anything? Post here? Is it a crap
shoot? Do the Lindens communicate what they are working at at this level,
and if so, how, where, or should I not bother wasting my time on stuff like
this?

thanks for any advice.
jb
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