[Opensim-dev] 3Di work about to be submitted

[Sean Dague]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:24:44AM +0900, Johan Berntsson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This is to inform that 3Di have been added new features to OpenSim, and 
> that we are planning to submit patches starting Monday next week.
> 
> The improvements include:
> - dynamic load balancing (a region can be moved to another server 
> without restarting the servers)
> - region splitting (a region can be split into two subregions if the 
> load is too high)
> - Serialization/deserialization of scene presences (avatars)
> - a grid monitor module (showing grid status in a web browser)
> - improved packet recycling
> 
> Because the possible negative impact of big changes we have been 
> reluctant to submit changes until we had a chance to test them 
> throughly. 3Di now has a test grid, and we are reasonably confident that 
> the changes won't create problems for the community. Most of the changes 
> are in modules and will not affect OpenSim unless you chose to use them, 
> and the code modifications are mainly extra functions for 
> saving/restoring state on a stream. After extensive testing we see no 
> negative impact on the normal behaviour of OpenSim.
> 
> We plan to add our the modules in ThirdParty/3Di, using a 3Di namespace. 
> This is similar to the TribalMedia additions. We will also include 
> instructions on how to use the new load balancer modules, for those 
> interested in using or improving them.

First... nice!

Second, any chance we could put them into modules with feature
meaningful names instead instead of sticking lots of vendor names in
Modules throughout the tree?  I fear for a day when the collection of
TribalMedia, RealXtend, 3Di, IBM, DeepThink, etc, etc, etc modules make
for good advertising, but bad code readability.

The CONTRIBUTORS.TXT file is really the right place for these, though it
could be expanded to specifically state features people have provided if
we aren't explicit enough there.

     -Sean

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