[sldev] Code Dusting

[Lawson English]

Robin Cornelius wrote:
> On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 3:01 AM, JB Kraft <kwerks.sl at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> 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?
>>
>>     
>
> The only thing i can suggest is that if you are going to work on a
> feature, post a JIRA entry and at least keep ideas and progress
> documented, its also probably a very good idea to mention it at Rob's
> hours too and probably discuss here. I know it can be lost in jira but
> if you make a little noise it may be noticed.
>
> As you said this was quite a small feature so may be it just ground
> someone in the dev team and they though, "rats, about time this was
> fixed" and just did it.
>
> Actually this is a feature i started looking at too and i am just as
> guilty of not telling anyone ;-)
>
> if your going to do the xml load too, please JIRA it now ;-)
>   

Perhaps a status for "new feature" of "non-linden project started" or 
something to indicate that you are in the process of working on it. "Fix 
pending" suggests that the task is done, but "in progress" suggests that 
its been taken into the internal Linden jira and there's no clear way of 
showing that a non-linden has started working on it, and just searching 
for ALL new features means you have to wade through literally thousands 
of *requests* for new features to see if someone is doing something.

Lawson