#SL Server/Scripting News Update Wk5

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The work is the roll out from Magnum to the main grid went well. The LSL function llSetRegionPos() is now on the main grid. Oskar says this is Kelly’s first major roll to the main grid for 2012. Yay Kelly.

Server/Scripting Meeting

Ghosting – Can’t Login

Two of the release channels were running a release that had ghosting problems in week 4. The problem was in the new foundational region crossing code. Carmilla Linden fixed the problem. When they merged the fix with the release code for Magnum, a crashing issue was found. The roll of the repaired code had to be foregone. So, that code planned for Magnum was replaced with the same release as Blue Steel and Le Tigre.

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#SL Fixes Purchase Delivery

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A JIRA was filed, WEB-4260 – SLM deliveries consistently delayed in early morning hours. It raised some heat. Darrius wrote in his blog about it: Slow Spiral Into Demise. Forum conversation picked up and some bloggers picked up on the problem. I wrote about it in: #SL Market Place Woes.

It seems the commotion got some action. Zanara Zenovka noticed a change and posted about it in: Shock! Horror! Instant deliveries?

Whatever was delaying early morning deliveries seems to have been fixed. In my previous article I speculated that WEB-4260 might not be fixed as it would take people away from the Direct Delivery project. Seems they either decided to give WEB-4260 some love while depriving DD or had other people available. We’ll likely never know which.

This fix should make the European users and all the merchants much happier.

 

 

#SL Response

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I hear lots of people bitch about something they know next to nothing about. Unfortunately they are not limited to Second Life. Oskar recently gave a good reply to one such… (put your own adjective and noun or pronoun here). I think it is worth reading Oskar’s response to understand what it takes to get server fixes rolled out. There is also some interesting information on timelines and drop dead dates for fixes rolling out.

WolfB——- Bears—- wrote:

So you have fixed the ghosting issue. Great.

But you’re not deploying the fix for another 30+ hours. Not Great.

If you do have an explanation for continuing to run server code which you know is broken, I would like to hear it.

The best answer would be that you are running the fix through QA processes. That still doesn’t explain why, when some regions are inaccessible because of the number of ghosted AVs, you have not reverted them to an earlier, known-safe, version of the code. 

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#SL Server/Scripting News Wk5

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The code from the Magnum release channel has rolled to the main grid. That means, according to Simon Linden, we now have the new function llSetRegionPos() available across the whole grid. The existing function llGetEnv() gets the new return value frame_number. Plus a bunch of bug fixes. You can see them listed in previous Server News articles.

Server/Scripting Meeting

Blue Steel

This release channel gets the performance enhanced server maintenance package. The big news is in the speed up of LIST handling functions.

This is the functions’ second time in a release channel, if I remember correctly.

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J’s Flip-Flap Bare Feet

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I seldom write about fashion… I suppose flip flops can be fashionable. But, I really like these bare feet and flip-flaps. The creator is not a native English speaker so I don’t know if the flaps part is intentional. I’ll guess it is.

J's Flip-Flap and Bare Feet

I’ve been writing this blog for a couple of years and I don’t even have a fashion category. I suppose that is sad for someone that looks at several fashion blogs during any week. Daily Look SL is a favorite of mine. I had to take it out of my reader. I was going broke buying stuff I liked.

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