[Opensim-dev] Avination donation

[Diva Canto]

Just an FYI that Avination has donated a considerable amount of 
improvements they have been making to OpenSim internally over the years. 
One of the improvements is vehicle crossings across sim borders.

This is an unusually large donation of code, amounting to close to 3,000 
commits, and it requires a special process to handle it. The code is 
currently available in a branch called avinationmerge; it will be there 
until some of us have time to inspect it and everything is shown to work 
properly. When no more issues are found, it will be merged with the 
master branch. We expect these improvements to be in the next release.

Many people are already helping test it. If anyone else wants to try it 
out, you can. It would be helpful to test that branch with people's 
normal configurations, to find what, if anything, breaks. Avination used 
only one of many OpenSim configurations, so we want to make sure all 
others work. But:

(1) please do it only on discardable sims/grids, as many things may be 
broken and may corrupt existing databases

(2) be ready to join the IRC for instructions on how to configure things 
for new features such as vehicle crossings; nothing of that is 
documented yet

(3) please report issues related to this branch either on the IRC or in 
mantis, not on the mailing list

(4) things that are known to not work yet, and will need contributions 
from others: SQLite, PGSQL