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

[Michael Cerquoni]

Michael,

It has been reported to me, and I just verified, Group Notices is now broken
with this fix, it was also tested on a version prior to this patch and it
still does work.

here is the error message : http://pastebin.com/Fx9Gej8n

please let me know what you think about this message.

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Michael Cerquoni <nebadon2025 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Ok please cancel this request to undo the patch.. After speaking with
> Mcortez we found that i had OpenSim.ini not fully updated for this patch, it
> required a change to the URI line.. after working with michael we have a new
> patch to add that will fix the startup crash if this line is not changed.
>
> <mcortez> XmlRpcGroupsServicesConnectorModule.cs: 120  - :
> m_groupsServerURI = groupsConfig.GetString("GroupsServerURI", string.Empty);
>
> <mcortez> XmlRpcGroupsServicesConnectorModule.cs: 120  + :
> m_groupsServerURI = groupsConfig.GetString("GroupsServerURI",
> groupsConfig.GetString("XmlRpcServiceURL", string.Empty));
>
> if someone can please make this change to the 0.6.9-post-fixes branch this
> will alleviate some of the confusion when upgrading for some folks.
>
>
> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Michael Cerquoni <nebadon2025 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hey michael this is the patch that was applied:
>>
>> http://github.com/downloads/mcortez/opensim/GroupsBackport_20100408.zip
>>
>> after this was applied I am no longer able to log into the region anymore,
>> the sim just crashes, I have reverted it is back to normal but this patch is
>> still in the post-fixes branch right now and is currently a break for OSgrid
>> regions anyway, I also double checked to make sure we have the most current
>> xmlrpc.php installed and we did, so I am not quite sure what went wrong on
>> this patch, perhaps the wrong one was applied?  It was posted in this
>> mantis:
>>
>> http://opensimulator.org/mantis/view.php?id=4646
>>
>> let me know what you think or if there is anything more I can provide to
>> you for this.  Thanks
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Michael Cortez <mcortez at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>>  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.)
>>>
>>> --
>>> Michael Cortez
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Michael Emory Cerquoni - Nebadon Izumi @ http://osgrid.org
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Michael Emory Cerquoni - Nebadon Izumi @ http://osgrid.org
>



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Michael Emory Cerquoni - Nebadon Izumi @ http://osgrid.org
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