[Opensim-dev] OpenSim 0.7 Release Candidate with ALL working OpenSim Modules

[James Stallings II]

There actually is a design and roadmap. I know, I've seen it. Again, this is
an alpha project - so the design and roadmap morphs, disappears, gets
rewritten, and is sometimes even hidden.
While I have no particular desire to discourage anyone for using opensim, I
dont recall any of us ever saying 'come on, build your products around this
alpha platform'.

Nor do I recall any of us representing opensim as anything ready for
adoption, adaptation, integration, or production use of any sort. On the
contrary, in an effort to properly manage expectations, we have, almost as a
unit, adopted a mantra of 'this is not ready for primetime use'.

Any other representations are driven strictly by user perception.

It remains, for better or worse, a 'use at your own risk' platform, whatever
'use' might be contrived to mean, at least until such time as we proclaim
otherwise.

Bottom line is, until we -do- make a release and stamp it '1.0', if ya can't
stands the heat, gets yourself out of the kitchen. And if you -can- stand
the heat, get in there and chop up the mirapois with the rest of us.

Cheers

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Dickson, Mike (ISS Software) <
mike.dickson at hp.com> wrote:

> Right, but any decent framework/platform that has any expectation of being
> used designs in the open and publishes a roadmap for the changes planned so
> that people that do wish to productize around it can plan and do so without
> huge hassles.  They don't just throw shit up on a wall and see what sticks
> nor do they hack away on the head of the development tree without a
> pre-existing design and/or documentation, destabilizing what's there for
> everyone else.
>
> The user community for OpenSim has been pretty patient and having a
> dedicated community of grid operators (all of whom are consuming the
> "platform" in the form of a product albeit rough around the edges).
>
> I heard Mike making an appeal for effort around capturing the innovation
> that's done around the edges of the framework.  IMO that's in part hoping
> that OpenSim will "grow up" and cease being mostly a hackers playground but
> rather really become the platform you say it is.  But to do so IMO requires
> a tad more rigor than shown in the project to date.
>
> Mike
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: opensim-dev-bounces at lists.berlios.de [mailto:
> opensim-dev-bounces at lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of Melanie
> Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 5:52 PM
> To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
> Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] OpenSim 0.7 Release Candidate with ALL working
> OpenSim Modules
>
> Holdit!
>
> OpenSim is NOT A PRODUCT. OpenSim is a BASE other people can make a
> product out of. So, OpenSim aims to include as little as possible,
> distros are the ones who will put it together and relicense it as
> they see fit.
>
> OpenSim Core is not a maker of distros. We are not a product
> company. We are a loose association of people who share an interest.
> We don't _want_ to make a "product", because we can't support a
> product. We make "bits and pieces" and let those with support staff
> handle productizing it.
>
> Melanie
>
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