[Opensim-dev] Status of presence refactor?

[Justin Clark-Casey]

Melanie wrote:
> 
> I would not like to see the refactor start in the branch, because
> that would postpone a merge indefinitely.

Yes, please whatever happens, do not start any sog refactoring in Master until presence-refactor has been merged and we've started a branch for 0.7.

In fact, when presence-refactor is merged with Master I think that we should wait at least 2 weeks before branching for 0.7 in order for all active developers to iron out any significant bugs associated with the merge.

At a minimum, the 0.7 branch itself would be subject to the same release candidate and bug triage procedure as was 0.6.8.  Only after this would 0.7 be tagged.  I think that this is the very minimum we need to do in order to be a credible project.

This would also give us an opportunity to get the documentation into a shape where at least super-intelligent pandimensional mice can understand it :)

At the same time as 0.7 is branched, I also think that it would be prudent to branch for a potential 0.7.0.1.  If all goes well with the sog refactor this will never see the light of day.  But I think we should give ourselves a means of working with the old sog code in case the refactor encounters trouble.  The sog refactor is far from trivial.

> 
> However, the refactor caould be started in a NEW branch that is
> based off the current presence-refactor. The friends and SQLite
> functionality could be merged back to that new branch when they are
> completed. Git allows this easily.

That sounds like a good idea.

> 
> Melanie
> 
> 
> diva at metaverseink.com wrote:
>> I could, but I'm hesitant to make diva distro releases from branches 
>> that aren't the master branch. Plus, so far the differences between the 
>> two branches are purely internal; there is no functional difference, or 
>> new bug fixes, or anything like that. The new architecture will allow 
>> for lots of exciting things to happen, but, again, I'm hesitant in 
>> making them happen in the branch. I'd rather merge this to master.
>>
>>
>> Robert Martin wrote:
>>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:15 AM,  <diva at metaverseink.com> wrote:
>>>> Sigh.
>>>> It's ready. It's been fully operational for several weeks, modulo
>>>> buglets. It hasn't been merged because the SQLite connector hasn't been
>>>> redone and at least Melanie doesn't want to merge without it.
>>>>
>>> could you release a copy of Diva with the updated code (since Diva of
>>> course does not use SQlite)?
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