Some interesting things are happening. The Server Beta User Group met Thursday in Morris, ADITI. This was Oskar Linden’s weekly meeting. Oskar is gone, it is fact. Maestro Linden is taking over the meeting… or may be Coyot Linden. I’m not sure it has been decided. But, it is the intention to keep the meetings going. Also the Deploy threads in the forum will continue.
First Server Beta w/o Oskar 11/8/2012
I think it looks like Maestro Linden will run the meetings. Maestro hopes to get more developers from the server project attending the meeting. There are a number of server enhancements and features moving forward. We hear very little about them. Getting more developers involved may give us more information.
In News 1 I covered the roll out packages, so I won’t repeat that information.
They have found a new crasher bug in the code running in Magnum. Maestro says they have already found a fix for that problem.
It seems this rumor is more fact than rumor. I think it is a tragedy. Oskar has been one of the more communicative Lindens.
So, what hard evidence do we have? The best I have seen is from Jessica Lyon, the lead in the Firefox Development Team. While I often disagree with her take on facts, I’ve never seen her get the basic facts wrong. She made a statement Saturday on the SLUniverse forum. See post: #21.
In this post she avoids characterizing the information. She does voice her feelings regarding the drama surrounding the information.
There is a post in the thread #62 that is supposedly from Oskar. If that is his post, then it is the authoritative statement on what happened.
There really is very little information on what happened. I will miss Oskar.
The Tuesday roll out to the main channel has been postponed to Wednesday. Wednesday’s Release Candidate roll outs have been postponed to Thursday. This delay is from some backside problems.
Main Channel
As expected the main channel is getting the package running on Blue Steel & Magnum. This is what they call a backend infrastructure change. We won’t see any changes in operation, unless it breaks something.
Mesh Alpha Rendering Problem – See Invisaprim Below
Blue Steel
This is getting an upgrade of the code now running on Le Tigre… I’m not sure whether this is supposed to mean Blue Steel and Le Tigre will run the same code or not. Until the detail release notes come out I won’t know.
This channel may get the server fixes that are hoped to fix some of the Sudden Massive Lag problem event managers are seeing. BUG-355
I’ve been distracted on weekends, so I’m just getting to writing up the last of the news from last week (43). There is no great news, but there are some interesting things.
Large Group Edit
The code for this change rolled out Wednesday. It had problems and was rolled back the same day. It is however currently running on the Snack Release Candidate Channel. You can get the details of that in: Second Life Large Groups Edit Week 43.
Server Scripting Meeting Oct. 2012
Part of the reason for getting this change up and running is to get it where Third Party Viewer Developers can test their viewers against the new server code. To use the new Group Editing code on the server viewers need to change the viewer code. Getting the code on a release channels allows TPV Dev’s to get their QA people and Beta testers involved.
The Problem
The package with the Large Group Edit code had a problem with the llSenor() function. It stopped returning a sorted list of objects. The sort is on distance. Not being able to figure out what is close or far meant breedables were not able to find food or each other… you know… to breed… The lack of loving was tragic.
The problem has been fixed. So, this week (44) we should see it move into one of the main release candidate channels.
This last week we did get the roll to the main grid and a couple of small release candidates made their way to the RC channels.
The main channel got the package from Blue Steal as previously reported. That was a server crash fix package.
Server & Scripting UG Oct 2012
Blue Steel and Le Tigre got the same package, one that has some fixes for group SQL queries. These are not the Large Group Editing fixes. Those are still stuck in QA… I understand it is more the package they are in that is stuck rather than the actual group queries that are stuck. Simon Linden is NOT expecting the package with Large Group Editing to make it to an RC next week (42). Bummer.
Magnum continues to run last week’s (40) package, the backend infrastructure changes. The package that rolled to the main grid was added to this package. The combined packages will test this week.
The comments in the Deploys thread are few. So, it is probably safe to assume things are working well for everyone.
