Second Life and Virtual Worlds
The Lab has posted Fresh Spring Login Pages in the Second Life Forum.
There are five new images. One by Strawberry Singh. Harper Beresford has 2 images in the set of 5. They are very similar to Strawberry’s style.
These pages are nice. We have seen this style before so it is nothing new. But, it is nice to see new art appearing.
If you have not yet seen this video, check it out. This is about how people are using Second Life™ and World of WarCraft™ virtual worlds. The video runs 1:27 hour:minutes. This is primarily in German. But, most of the people are speaking in English and the video provides German subtitles. Unfortunately the German, Japanese, and other language parts do not have English subtitles.
I’ve placed a trailer first. It is all English. It runs 2:31 minutes.
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There are apparently some legal issues with the display of the main Login 2 Life video on YouTube. I didn’t understand what that was about, other than I am NOT supposed to say who tipped me off to the video. But… thanks for the tip.
The rollouts to the Main and RC’s should happen today and tomorrow as I reported yesterday. Simon Linden expects the maintenance package on Magnum to be promoted next week. But, that is a ways off. However, rollouts will return to the normal schedule next week.
Maestro Linden changed the forum Deploys post to say a bug was found in the prim rez code running on Le Tigre. Also the Blue Steel performance improvements package ran into problems. Both will drop out of the RC channels and move back into QA. The crash mode code that ran on Le Tigre last week will roll to all the RC’s this week (8).
BUG-355 – Increased Instant Sim Lag & Avi Crashes During Major Events – sim network issue. While this is marked ‘unassigned’, it is active in the SL Forum. See the thread: Increase in Instant SIM LAG & Crashes During Larger Events – Network Source? This thread started in late September 2012 and has grown to 11 pages or 101 replies.
I’ve added a comment to BUG-355 that remains unassigned. If you own a region or are an estate manager and seeing the problem, file a JIRA and reference BUG-355. It would also help if you could attend the Server-Scripting meeting held in Denby, AGNI (main grid) on Tuesdays at noon (SLT/PST). Also, attend the Beta Server meeting in Morris, ADITI (beta grid) Thursdays at 3 PM (SLT/PST).
The rollouts have been moved back one day because of Monday being a holiday.
The main channel will get the Interest List and Materials packages on Wednesday. However, the RC channels will only get the bug fix package. The other packages are not coming out as they had bugs that were found. The RC channels will rollout on Thursday.
More later…
Back in September how the JIRA works changed. Now we can’t really know what’s going on with bugs and other problems in Second Life™ because most of us cannot read the JIRA. We cannot browse or search the JIRA to see if a problem we are encountering has been reported. So, we just report our problem.
Nor do we know if a problem is fixed. Unless the problem is something we experience almost daily and one Tuesday or Wednesday it suddenly starts working. For users the JIRA Change is a pain.
Various parts of the JIRA work different ways. Some projects are open and anyone can read and comment on the items filed in those projects. Others are closed, like BUG, and people can only read and comment on the items they file and only until they are triaged. Only a few can read most of the JIRA projects. You can read my initial announcement here: Oh CRAP! JIRA Change (Sept 7, 2012).