[sldev] VWR-10311 Enabling lip sync by default

[Mike Monkowski]

I wholeheartedly admit to being one of those "certain people."  I *do* 
want to get this into the main viewer.  I have heard objections that 
appear to be genuine, but do not understand their rationale.

The Linden Open Source Contribution project has been seriously hurt by 
the difficulty in getting any contribution incorporated into the main 
viewer, especially during this extended period of concentrating on 
"viewer stability."  This "backdoor" appears to be the only door "open." 
  Any requirement of unanimous approval is sure to close this one as well.

I'm also doing work with the morphs.  Tofu Linden added a comment to 
that Jira issue, "I'm happy for people to keep working towards this, but 
I wanted to give a status update - I can't picture this issue getting 
looked at (even a little) internally for many months, given our current 
priorities; this is pretty much way down the list."

With prospects like that, why would anyone work on an open source 
project?  I think Philip realized this and created this "open source 
viewer" project to keep external developers from getting discouraged and 
abandoning SL for some project actually willing to accept contributions.

If the developers themselves make it hard to get contributions accepted, 
then there's no reason to stay.

Mike

Gordon Wendt wrote:
> Mike, I think I was reading too much into it. On the HTTP-Texture branch 
> I don't really have any objections but the JIRA issue I believe is about 
> getting it into the main viewer and my concern is that certain people 
> are happy to try to use this as a backdoor way to get this implemented 
> on the main viewer when there are serious objections to doing so. Once 
> it is in it's much harder to justify removing it even if it was put in 
> just as a testing feature.