[Opensim-dev] moving away from grid vs. standalone

[Mike Dickson]

I'll echo a sentiment I've tried to express before. This sort of
aggressive refactoring and experimentation is really important to the
growth of OpenSim.  The "release" process has been focused on trying to
figure out a stable point and snapshot-ing that. That places a burden on
the "release coordinator" to poll folks for what that stable "snapshot"
is.  IMO, ideally the heavy refactoring would happen on a branch or
separate tree and then pushed to HEAD when it stabilizes.  

Again, I'm completely for the heavy research  and refactoring focus.
But IMO if for a shared project you want to do that you need to adopt a
development approach that gracefully allows that to happen.

Mike


On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 15:37 +0000, Dahlia Trimble wrote:
> We need to be careful about how things are broken and make repairs
> expeditiously as we also hinder other developers if they are unable to
> use their regions for development and testing.
> 
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Melanie <melanie at t-data.com> wrote:
>         Maybe these things need to be broken. We are almost locked
>         into a
>         rigid schema, now we still have a chance to go to true
>         modularity
>         and we should take it. After all, trunk is meant to be
>         broken :)
>         
>         
>         Melanie