<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>It is always a balance between keeping functionality in an evolving project and refactoring and experimenting.<br><br>I will support and encourage refactoring and experimentation with one proviso. That proviso is a few paragraphs on the wiki giving clues to allow those deploying OpenSim what is going on and how to work around trunk during a period of refactoring and experimentation.<br><br>Charles<br></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Mike Dickson <mike.dickson@hp.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> "opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de"
<opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, April 30, 2009 8:57:24 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Opensim-dev] moving away from grid vs. standalone<br></font><br>
I'll echo a sentiment I've tried to express before. This sort of<br>aggressive refactoring and experimentation is really important to the<br>growth of OpenSim. The "release" process has been focused on trying to<br>figure out a stable point and snapshot-ing that. That places a burden on<br>the "release coordinator" to poll folks for what that stable "snapshot"<br>is. IMO, ideally the heavy refactoring would happen on a branch or<br>separate tree and then pushed to HEAD when it stabilizes. <br><br>Again, I'm completely for the heavy research and refactoring focus.<br>But IMO if for a shared project you want to do that you need to adopt a<br>development approach that gracefully allows that to happen.<br><br>Mike<br><br><br>On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 15:37 +0000, Dahlia Trimble wrote:<br>> We need to be careful about how things are broken and make repairs<br>> expeditiously as we also hinder other developers if they are unable
to<br>> use their regions for development and testing.<br>> <br>> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Melanie <<a ymailto="mailto:melanie@t-data.com" href="mailto:melanie@t-data.com">melanie@t-data.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Maybe these things need to be broken. We are almost locked<br>> into a<br>> rigid schema, now we still have a chance to go to true<br>> modularity<br>> and we should take it. After all, trunk is meant to be<br>> broken :)<br>> <br>> <br>> Melanie<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Opensim-dev mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de"
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