[Opensim-dev] RegionOnline status
Justin Clark-Casey
jjustincc at googlemail.com
Mon Feb 2 13:36:42 UTC 2009
Sean Dague wrote:
> Justin Clark-Casey wrote:
>> Frank Nichols wrote:
>>> There is a member in RegionProfileData (regionOnline) which is currently
>>> not used and does not exist in the region db table. I would like to add
>>> it to the region table as an enum and not a boolean. Currently the code
>>> assumes a region that has an entry in the region table is online (as far
>>> as I have figured out...) With this field in place we can impliment the
>>> requested feature of reserving regions as well as having regions online
>>> but not available for logins. I suggest the following enums:
>>>
>>> RESERVED
>>> OFFLINE
>>> ONLINE
>>>
>>> at least for starters.
>>>
>>>
>>> Before submitting a patch to support this, i wanted to get some
>>> direction and comments from the core developers and architects.
>> I think the people who could contribute most to this discussion are those who are actively running grids, a group that
>> will consist of both some core developers but also of other core developers.
Wow, I see that last line didn't make much sense - I actually meant to say
"will consist of both some core developers but also of non-core grid operators."
>>
>> On the surface a RESERVED state doesn't seem unreasonable to me.
>>
>> Perhaps the nicest thing to do would be to make such code modular so that people are free to implement different
>> strategies for grid organization.
>
> This sounds sensible to me. I think it should end up as State instead
> of regionOnline, so we can think of it in these more generic ways.
>
> -Sean
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