[sldev] Rendering Limits

Ambrosia chaosstar at gmail.com
Thu Jun 18 00:59:46 PDT 2009


This is news to me as well. Rendering limits? Which? I personally have
not noticed anything that I might recognize as a new rendering limit?

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 16:02, Harleen Gretzky<gretzky.harleen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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:
>>
>>
>> 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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