[Opensim-dev] MOSES patch submitted (UNCLASSIFIED)

[James Hughes]

I am not sure what the historical reasons were for adding multipliers to
the numbers, but one thing we need to remember going forward is that for
much of the development period of the OpenSimulator codebase, core
developers and anyone submitting patches were prohibited from looking at
the viewer code due to the GPL license. So, I will assume that these
were set to match the numbers seen when logged into the SL grid not
knowing whether the numbers affected viewer behavior.

We do have a responsibility to weigh the facts and make good decisions
on behalf of all users of OpenSimulator and part of that process is
communicating with the user base when we are facing major deviations
from existing code. With that being said, I am strongly in favor of
using accurate metrics for simulator monitoring. But, I don't think
accusing anyone of dishonesty for wanting to gather needed facts before
moving forward is a good approach.

-BlueWall

On Sat, 2015-04-25 at 20:28 +0000, Maxwell, Douglas CIV USARMY ARL (US)
wrote:
...
> Folks, you may not realize this but knowingly propagating the
> erroneous code is intellectually dishonest and has already wasted
> precious research funding.  That we are even debating whether or not
> to fix the simulator reporting mechanisms is disturbing.
> 
>  
> 
> What we should be debating is "how".  The MOSES project has provided a
> solution that works for us and we need your knowledgeable feedback as
> core code experts to know if our solution is feasible for the
> community.
> 
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