[Opensim-dev] breaking OpenSim.ini changes

[Charles Krinke]

No, this is certainly not a big business development. It is an opensource development. 

And as such, our early adopters are our partners in this development.

This is a plea to you, Melanie, to write a few blog, wiki, or FAQ entries, or mentor someone to write them for you.

For an example, see Adam's blog where he has described his work on MRM along the way. And that is very good. It allows early adoptors to have a bit of an understanding of what has been created.

If you would merely consider writing down a few things once in a while, then I think this whole situation will get better for you.

Charles




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From: Melanie <melanie at t-data.com>
To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 9:05:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] breaking OpenSim.ini changes

Charles,

I develop out in the open, commit early and often. Most of these 
past 100 commits were not meant to be used by anyone but myself and 
Diva. It's a work in progress in a work area and documentation would 
have been premature.

The asset system, since it now functions, can and will be 
documented. But to demand big$$$business development and 
documentation practices is not what opensim is about. Trunk is 
supposed to be broken and usually is. Even if the brokenness only 
consists in no one being able to use it. We can't document when it 
is expected that everything will change again anyway.

This is a huge refactor. We had them before, where trunk was 
unusable for months on end. This is another one of them. Please bear 
with us.

Melanie

Charles Krinke wrote:
> No, this is not talking about anything to death, Melanie. This is about writing down for others to read and understand at least *some* of what you are trying to accomplish.
> 
> This can be done via blogs, wiki paragraphs, FAQ, or other.
> 
> This feeling has been a long time coming, Melanie, and this is a plea for you to write down at least *some* of what you are doing so that there are clues for the early adopters to read and understand.
> 
> Charles
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Melanie <melanie at t-data.com>
> To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
> Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 8:47:55 AM
> Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] breaking OpenSim.ini changes
> 
> Well said. Trunk is supposed to be the developers' work area. If we 
> can't use trunk as a work area anymore, maybe things should be in 
> branches!
> This is work in progress, and there will be breaking changes, and 
> lots more. Documenting as we go it not an option, since we 
> frequently have to go back and change things after the fact. Much 
> easier to document when it's done than to keep remembering what is 
> already on the wiki and where, and to update it whenever some small 
> thing needs to be changed.
> This is about code development, not about the general usability of 
> trunk. Trunk is supposed to be broken, we have releases for people 
> who expect things to JustWork(tm).
> 
> Now, let's get this work done and not talk it to death in committee.
> 
> Melanie
> 
> Nebadon Izumi wrote:
>> I have to somewhat disagree here, not fully though, while i do agree perhaps
>> there can be better ways of informing everyone, I do not agree with lumping
>> all changes into 1 update, this is an Alpha level development project,
>> whatever happened to Trunk is supposed to be broken.  My only suggestion to
>> those who find difficulties at the time being midway through this refactor
>> process, do not upgrade your regions beyond 9561 for the time being, and
>> when the refactoring is complete we will sound the all clear whistle.  But
>> for now expecting this to be perfect 1/2 through a giant refactoring is
>> probably not something any of us should do.
>> 
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