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

[Michael Cerquoni]

Hey there,

I was just informed of another issue after this patch, apparently you can
not activate any groups you get the following message on the console upon
trying to change or activate a group:

http://pastebin.com/GRSvJcTm

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 5:48 AM, Michael Cerquoni <nebadon2025 at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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