Feature Proposals

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Feature Proposals

If you want to propose a feature, you should do so on the opensim-dev mailing list. If there is interest or if you plan to write the code yourself, you can create a page here. Please do not propose features in the Mantis bug tracker. Please do not propose features if you don't have a clear idea of how they would work on a technical level. Please do not propose features expecting other people to do the implementation work without convincing them first - this will not happen.

Feature proposals must be created in conjunction with a post to the opensim-dev mailing list - if they are just created here then it's possible they will not get seen by other developers.

If you're adding a proposal here, please do it with a page name of Feature_Proposals/<name of service>. For example Feature_Proposals/AutoBackup.

Templates

• Feature Proposal Template - Use this template for your document.

Present

• Feature Proposals/Dispatcher
• Feature Proposals/OsGetRegionSize
• Feature Proposals/Deduplicating Asset Service
• Feature Proposals/Improve Groups Service
• Feature Proposals/BulletSim_OpenCL
• IntegrationService
• Intel's Distributed Scene Graph for Scalability
• RemoteAdmin:RemoteAdmin_Proposals - proposals for additional RemoteAdmin external methods.
• OpenSimulator:Future_Release_Discussion - Proposal list/discussion for future versions

Past

• Feature Proposals/Dynamic Attributes in Scene Objects - 2013 (originally 2010) Proposal of a way of attaching arbitrary data to any Scene Object. (feature was adopted in OpenSimulator v0.7.6)
• Feature Proposals/Multi-Region OARs - 2012 Proposal for a multi-region OAR format (feature was adopted)
• AutoBackup - 2011 Proposal for automated region backups
• OGS2:Proposal - 2010 OGS2 Proposal for replacement of OGS1 (superseded by ROBUST)
• Object Model Refactor to use Entity-Component Model - 2009 plan to simplify scene graph to improve maintainability and extensibility. It would also simplify creating viewers not tied to SL. ( see also: Object Model Refactor Plan PDF format ). Proposal was accepted and Adam Frisby started work but had to drop out of OpenSimulator development before it was finished and merged. ref
• Creating profiles not used for login - 2009 Proposal for alternative ways of creating profiles that will never be used for login
• Explicit Object Serialization - 2009 proposal to explicitly serialize scene objects rather than use .NET XML serialization (feature was adopted)
• OpenSim Profile Anchors - 2009 Proposal for mechanism of retaining creator information for offline item transfers (superseded by other work)
• Cable Beach Proposal - 2009 Cable Beach proposal for breaking virtual world services into separate modules (superseded by ROBUST)
• Money - 2008 Proposal for a complete monetary system
• Yadis_for_UGAI_services_discovery - 2008 Proposal to adopt the Yadis resource disovery protocol
• Statistics Server - 2008 Proposal for a statistics server in OpenSimulator.
• Proposed_IM_Flow - 2008 Proposal for IM flow
• OpenID - 2008 Proposal for using OpenID in OpenSimulator
• AssetServerProposal - 2008 Proposal for a distributed asset server/protocol
• A better SimCrossing - 2008 Proposal to implementing smoother simcrossing
• OpenWiredux: Taking the next step - 2008 Proposal
• Avatar Portability Version 2 - 2008 Proposal

Version Release Feature Discussions

• OpenSimulator: 0.7.1 Release Planning
• OpenSimulator: 0.7 Release Planning
• Opensim: 0.6 Release Target Discussion
• Opensim: 0.5 Release Target Discussion
• Opensim: 0.4 Release Target Discussion
• Opensim: Future Release Discussion