Second Life and Virtual Worlds
It isn’t contagious. This problem passed quickly, I think. I didn’t run into it, so it is hard for me to know. But, it revealed another part of how the Second Life™ system works.
Backend Serve updates – there are a number of backend services needed to support Second Life. When the Lab is changing/updating them they generally provide no public notice, unless users need to change behavior, like refrain from transactions or rezzing no-copy items (which hopefully is changing).
Calab Linden has taken over posting information about Second Life™ server updates. We get a lot less information than we did with Simon Linden. Whether that is the difference in people or just that less work is being done on server updates, I don’t know.
This week there was no roll to the main channel this week.
Other bit of news from the Third Party Developer’s meeting (7/31):
RSS feed for Grid Status is moving to new platform. The URL will not change just the format is changing from RSS1 to RSS2. But, if you read the status pages, the change is visually significant.
The setup is said to be coming soonish, but seems to be working now. A temp URL will let TPD’s test the feed. See: http://beta.status.secondlifegrid.net which redirects me to https://community.secondlife.com/t5/Status-Grid/bg-p/status-blog.
This Tuesday the package running on the RC channels moved to the main channel. That package was said to be Simulator fixes… whatever they were.
As of late Tuesday (5+PM PT) there was no information about what would or if any would roll to the RC channels Wednesday.
Presumably the Lindens are still working on the Experience Tools database…
There was no Second Life Server-Scripting UG Meeting this week.
The main channel got last week’s package of simulator fixes. The 3 RC channels all get the same but new package on Wednesday. This package is also about simulator fixes.
This breaks the every other week rollout pattern that has been building up.
I think we all have questions about Project Sansar, aka SL 2.0. On the 14th a forum thread was started titled ‘Ask the CEO.’ There is a load of questions and answers. See: Ask the CEO.
Ebbe is not talking about the avatar skeleton. Answering a direct question about whether skeletons other than the basic avatar will be available he answered ‘say tuned.’