[sldev] Rendering Limits

[Harleen Gretzky]

Can you elaborate on what the new rendering limits are?


On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Kent Quirk (Q Linden) <q at lindenlab.com>wrote:

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>
> I absolutely claim that 1.23 is not only of releasable quality, but
> the best viewer we've ever shipped. It met its design goals on RC1.
> The bugs that were found and fixed in the next 3 RCs were minimal. On
> a global statistics level, the crash rates are lower than they've ever
> been, even when you include crashes caused by specific video cards.
>
> There are some individuals who are upset about some of the design
> decisions, like the redesign of pie menus. That's not a quality issue.
> There are other individuals who are upset about some of the technical
> decisions, such as the imposition of rendering limits where we never
> had them before. That's not a quality issue either. And there are
> people who don't like the new Adult-Only stuff. That's also not a
> quality issue.
>
> The definition of quality is meeting the specification. We executed on
> this viewer better than we've ever done it before, and I'm pretty
> proud of our team for doing it.
>
> By the way, contrary to the implication in the subject line, we
> released 1.23.4 almost exactly according to the schedule I announced
> internally in February. The internal decision to ship was based on
> quality. As every professional software organization does, for every
> open issue we balance the risk of shipping a product with that issue
> against the risk of trying to fix it. When all the risks of shipping
> are lower than the risks of fixing, we ship it. Which is what we did
> with RC4.
>
>        Q
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