[sldev] http-texture project - how far until complete? (this will totally Rawk SL!)

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Hi everyone,

The http-texture project sounds fascinating!  If every texture in SL could
actually be fed in via http - that would rock the SL world, especially for
educators.

Just wondering how far off the http-texture branch is to being fully
functional.

Please forgive me as I am not that familiar with the http-texture project as
of yet...

Thanks in advance!
Cheers

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On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Philippe Bossut (Merov Linden) <
merov at lindenlab.com> wrote:

> Hi Mike,
>
> I saw you have some questions about the branches, the projects and
> http-texture in your last 2 posts:
>
> On Apr 30, 2009, at 8:18 AM, Mike Monkowski wrote:
> >      I am under the impression that all of these open source viewer
> > projects are intended to eventually get merged in and go live.  The
> > hppt-texture branch
> > http://svn.secondlife.com/trac/linden/browser/branches/2009/http-texture
> > became the http-texture project
> > http://svn.secondlife.com/trac/linden/browser/projects/2009/http-texture
>
> OK, there is some confusion here: the project did not "become"
> something else. The purpose of the "branches" and "projects" svn nodes
> are mechanical svn conventions we use to make our merge work easier,
> *both* relate to the same project (called "http-texture" for the time
> being). I tried to explain that in a previous post:
>
> On Apr 24, 2009, at 3:36 PM, Philippe Bossut (Merov Linden) wrote:
> > "branches" is the parking repository for the "vendor" version, the
> > code that gets exported by LL into the OSS realm. That's where code
> > lands when they throw it over the wall (<disclaimer>I'm being
> > facetious here with my use of vocabulary and, in that particular
> > instance, that's me throwing code over the wall</disclaimer>). We (as
> > open source developers) are not supposed to modify branches ever. They
> > are sacred and represent what comes from Lindens. We build it though
> > to make sure it's not evil, that our changes don't get stomped by
> > Linden updates and that we like it enough to merge it into our
> > projects.
>
>
> Rob followed by a post of his own and updated the wiki describing the
> branches:
>    http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Source_branches
>
> I hope this clears the objective of the svn hierarchy.
>
> > Yeah, I'm confused too (but not sneaky or underhanded) :-).  There
> > needs to be a whole lot more documented on this new open source viewer
> > concept.
>
> Not sure which missing documentation you're referring to but we have 3
> at the moment:
> - https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/HTTP_Texture_Development :
> describes what we're trying to achieve in the next roll of this release
> - http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/HTTP_Texture : goes into gory
> details about the http-texture background work (clearly needs more work)
> - http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/S3_based_viewer_map : goes into the
> implementation of the new map UI, the only part of the project that
> pulls jpeg textures using http
>
> There are things we discussed but haven't documented yet, mostly:
> - gather perf data as part of the builds: we are thinking about just
> picking the launch time as a first goal on that road. I've been
> looking at attempt at this internally as several groups independently
> tried this already. Ideas from the group on this would be great!
> - crash rate reports: we're doing some reading manually but we need to
> extract some data and post them in a graph form somewhere
> automatically. Since this means accessing some DB not available
> publicly, this is clearly a task that's on Linden's laps.
>
> Hope this answer some of your questions. I saw you added this to the
> agenda for this afternoon's Hippo meeting so we'll discuss that
> subject there again.
>
> Cheers,
> - Merov
>
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