[Opensim-dev] to branch or to break?

[Adam Frisby]

I'm for keeping trunk active, then making a stable 0.4 tag we can apply 
maintainence fixes to.

Adam

Michael Wright wrote:

> As some people know there has been some talk on what needs done for 
> decent Communications. And also the partly related work on dynamically 
> creating and removing regions at runtime.
> 
> Trying to just make some changes to fix some problems with creating new 
> regions (at other times than startup) is showing how hard it is to do 
> much without the risk of breaking other things, like grid mode. And I 
> think removing regions will be even worse as we don't have any way in 
> place to tell the grid servers that a region has been removed. Two 
> related things here are I most likely don't have the time to get all my 
> changes working in grid mode straight away, so would like to be able to 
> test them in standalone mode first.
> 
> Also I am really not in favour of doing much work on the current grid 
> mode code without at least some plan of how we want to take it forward. 
> I think most of us are in agreement that the current protocol needs 
> redesigning or at least big changes.
> 
> Just trying to decouple some of these things is proving very hard. So 
> I'm starting to think we are in a situation like we were with the move 
> from 0.2 - 0.3. Where we need to either say that trunk may have some 
> things broke in it for a while or we create a branch. Last time we went 
> with a branch but think we all felt that we should have went with 
> breaking trunk and creating a "stable" branch.
> 
> So I think we need to decide, then we can get on with the talk about 
> what actually needs done and how.
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