[Opensim-dev] Concerning recent grid instability and inconsistency

[Sean Dague]

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 09:42:33AM +0000, Michael Wright wrote:
> I haven't had time to write a full reply to this yet, but just wanted to comment on one part of it:
> " Packet handling technology critique. Involve directly those who have worked on this code in the past with those who are interested in carrying the work forward. Get either a commitment from it's original authors to return to active development, or alternatively an informal hand-off of the work to this group. Then perform a systematic audit on this code, as a group. Document it as we go. Explaining how code works to a piece of paper can show up just as many flaws as a trial run. There's the side benefit of generating thorough documentation."
> 
> In opensim, no one owns any part of the code, everyone is free to work
> on whatever they like. Although in practice, certain people want to
> work on certain areas. And as for getting a commitment form the packet
> handling original authors to be active again, well the packet handling
> code has been wrote and added to and fixed by numerous people, and
> most are still active. We can't force anyone to work on one piece of
> code. But as I said above, no one owns it and anyone can work on it.

+1.  We're all in this together. :)

     -Sean

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