[sldev] SLDev Viewer--code review

[Rob Lanphier]

On first skim, looks good. I've been meaning to read through that much
more, as well as figure out how to merge it with this page:
https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/HTTP_Texture_Development

Rob

On 05/06/2009 10:32 AM, Mike Monkowski wrote:
> I haven't heard any feedback on the preliminary page describing the 
> SLDev Open Source Viewer project at 
> http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/User:Mm_Alder/SLDev_Open_Source_Viewer 
> but there's a lot to read there, so maybe people were scared away by its 
> length, but I would particularly be interested in hearing comments on 
> the code review section:
>
>   
>> OK, so I'm completely making this part up, but this is the way I think it should happen.
>>
>> Every week open source developers and Lindens gather at a miniature Roman Coliseum on Hippotropolis.
>>
>> Contributors have added their names to a list on the wiki together with a link pointing to the PJIRA issue that describes their contributions and includes a patch file made against the current version of the SLDev open source. One by one the contributors are called before the Linden tribunal. Using voice chat and an in-world display showing the code with highlights on the changes, the contributor describes what that part of the code used to do and how this contribution makes it better. Developers politely ask questions using text chat, and the contributor answers them in turn.
>>
>> In the end, everyone learns something, and if the code is deemed worthy, the contribution is given a thumbs up approval. If not, lions. Or at least a second chance.
>>
>> Well that's the way I think it should work, except for the lions. 
>>     
>
> Is this technically feasible in SL?  If such a gathering were to take 
> place, would anyone show up?  I see it as a way to build a community, 
> learn the viewer code, and get changes implemented.  I think it would 
> make life easier for reviewers as well.  Anybody else see it this way? 
> Or would it just be a waste of time?  Does the mention of "voice chat" 
> doom it from its inception?
>
> Mike
> Mm Alder
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