[Opensim-dev] RegionOnline status

[Frank Nichols]

Tommi,

I can agree with this, that a region exists is reflected by the state 
being online or offine, that it is reserved or not is none of the 
regions business...

Tommi Laukkanen wrote:
> I would maybe add just offline/online states for region and make a 
> separate reservation table as fields required for reservation are 
> different from that of region.
>  
> regards,
> Tommi
>
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 7:00 AM, Dahlia Trimble 
> <dahliatrimble at gmail.com <mailto:dahliatrimble at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Then again one could assume if a record existed for that region
>     even if it were offline, that it's spot is reserved.
>
>
>     On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Frank Nichols
>     <frank at thenichols.net <mailto:frank at thenichols.net>> wrote:
>
>         To me the region does not need to know if or when the reserved
>         status
>         would expire. Some process/module must have set it to
>         reserved, and to
>         me would then assume the responsibility of knowing when/if to
>         expire the
>         reservation.
>
>         Dahlia Trimble wrote:
>         > I would think if a "RESERVED" state were added there would
>         probably
>         > need to be an expiration date associated with it.
>         >
>         > On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Frank Nichols
>         <frank at thenichols.net <mailto:frank at thenichols.net>
>         > <mailto:frank at thenichols.net <mailto:frank at thenichols.net>>>
>         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.
>         >
>         >     Frank
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