[Opensim-dev] How necessary are the latest group changes in 0.6.9-post-fixes?

[Michael Cortez]

> How necessary are the groups changes in commits 8a69070 and 91cfce3?  

It significantly improves groups performance in some grids (reports are 
in some cases it reduces 10's of thousands of DB requests to a few dozen.)

It also adds support for Simian Services backed groups, which are a lot 
easier to setup (assuming you are already using Simian) then the normal 
groups, since they do not require a separate PHP xmlrpc service.

> These appear to change configuration parameters and I would really like 
> to avoid making these changes in 0.6.9 proper.

The changes were very effective in master/head -- and were requested for 
the post fix branch by some of the groups users.

In theory it should be possible to keep the old (and badly/incorrectly) 
named OpenSim.ini configuration parameters, while still incorporating 
the other changes.  Since I'm not actively developing for the .69 PF 
branch I took the path of lest work when back-porting the changes 
(including the config param names.)

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Michael Cortez