[sldev] List rename?

Frisby, Adam adam at deepthink.com.au
Tue Feb 2 21:24:54 PST 2010


Why not viewer-dev or something like that?

The reason I ask is because you are now conflicting with OpenSimDEV which is another mailing list in the same scope that is referred do with the same acronym. ;)

Adam

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sldev-bounces at lists.secondlife.com [mailto:sldev-
> bounces at lists.secondlife.com] On Behalf Of Soft Linden
> Sent: Tuesday, 2 February 2010 12:11 PM
> To: Tigro Spottystripes
> Cc: sldev at lists.secondlife.com
> Subject: Re: [sldev] List rename?
> 
> Since before the viewer went open source, Linden Lab has had an SL
> Developer program for the solution providers listed in the SL
> Developer directory at http://solutionproviders.secondlife.com . It's
> the same group that has the SLDEV and SLDEVu islands and the SLDEV
> group in-world. I don't know the history of how open source ended up
> on a list with the same name.
> 
> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Tigro Spottystripes
> <tigrospottystripes at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > what is the full name of the "solution provider" ? if it's just SLDev
> or
> > SL Development or somthing like that, i think they don't own the
> right
> > to the name according to those rules that attacked SLEducation (or
> > whatever they were called)
> >
> > On 2/2/2010 15:37, Soft Linden wrote:
> >> Yes, soon. Merov will make the announcement when we're cutting over
> >> and members will be moved over.
> >>
> >> sldev is an ambiguous name, also used by an in-world solutions
> >> provider program unrelated to open source development. (They were
> here
> >> first.) A name based on "open source development" makes the focus of
> >> the list more clear.
> >>
> >> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Robin Cornelius
> >> <robin.cornelius at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Hmm is the list being renamed OSDev?
> >>>
> >>>  (http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OSDev#Second_Life_.3C-
> .3E_mailing_list_name_mapping)
> >>>
> >>> did i fall asleep and miss an announcement or is it being setup
> prior
> >>> to the announcement?
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