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Direct Delivery Issues Stats

2012/03/30 by Nalates Urriah

We all hear about problems with Direct Delivery. We also hear the Lindens aren’t fixing things… whatever you think, there are some objective numbers in the JIRA. The Market Place seems to fall in the Realm of the Web Project. That project also includes the JIRA, Wiki, and other Second Life web sites. It would … Read more

Second Life Direct Delivery Info

2012/03/30 by Nalates Urriah

Yesterday the Commerce team was going to take the Market Place down for changes about 5 AM. Then that was going to be put off until Monday. Then they rescheduled it to 10 AM yesterday. They did take the Market Place from about 10 to 11:30 AM Thursday, yesterday.

We still don’t know what was changed or fixed. Just that the site was down.

We do know there is a small problem with Direct Delivery Bears over populating the world. That problem has been solved with a small nuke.

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I think it was SassyRomano’s finger on the button.

Dolphin Viewer 3.3.0 (23700) Released

2012/03/302012/03/30 by Nalates Urriah

Lance describes this release of Dolphin 3 Viewer an important release and I agree. This release has a working Merchant’s Outbox. This version works on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Previously even on Windows the Outbox was shaky.

One added feature in Dolphin 3 is the length of the Merchant Outbox’s time out, which has been extended, doubled. This should reduce problems encountered when the Market Place (MP) is running slow.

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RLV users will appreciate that the control for RLV Height Offset has been changed to make it easier to use.

#SL Pathfinding Moves Beta to AGNI

2012/03/29 by Nalates Urriah

Today we found out the Lindens are moving the Pathfinding server code to the main grid. It will only be running on selected sandbox regions and in the Premium sandboxes. Pathfinding is still in Open Beta. Changes are coming quickly. If I understood correctly, the newest server code will appear on ADITI. A slightly older version will be running in AGNI sandboxes.

Oskar Linden has opened the Alpha Pathfinding as Beta Pathfinding and placed the code in AGNI sandboxes. You can get more details here: Pathfinding Public Beta.

Second Life News Week 13

2012/03/29 by Nalates Urriah

This is general news from different sources. Some interesting stuff.

Sever Updates

Tuesday the simulators were restarted for the main grid. The Lindens usually only do this when they need to update the software running on the sims. But, again not this week.

The release channels got a different roll out than I anticipated and the Lindens had suggested. Magnum is running the multi-threaded region crossing code. This is the package with the Phase I infrastructure upgrade that has been cycling in and out of the release channels for a few weeks. As Oskar Linden says, they are letting it “soak” awhile longer.

#SL Direct Delivery Problems Continue

2012/03/29 by Nalates Urriah

We are into week 2 of Direct Delivery. The problems continue to mount. JIRA’s continue to pile up. The Lab has apparently cut off support for Magic Boxes. In general things are a frustrating mess.

Support

In a thread on SLUniverse some people have filed trouble tickets for Magic Box problems. They are getting a canned response that the Lab stopped supporting Magic Boxes March 21, 2012. They are asked to move to Direct Delivery (DD).

I don’t understand why the Lab would have the Support Team cut off providing assistance to Magic Box users. I think it might be more helpful to handle both systems until the transfer to DD is complete. I imagine that requests for DD support are overwhelming. I also suspect there is little they can do to fix those problems as DD is probably still very much in the hands of the Commerce Team.