[Opensim-users] Strange effekt / Avatar totaly stretched

Wed Apr 1 10:46:06 UTC 2009

Given that 0.6.3 was not a good release (avatar appearance bugs), I was hoping to wait for 0.6.4 for ReactionGrid and for our clients. It was taking a while to tag, and I had identified a stable revision that I had put through a lot of testing and made the call based on running a significant test plan. Our database (MSSQL) was over 5Gb, the change from 0.6.2 to 0.6.4 included a major schema change that meant the longer we left updating, the longer (and harder) an update was gonna be. I made the call to update us just before Stefan tagged the release - I didn't anticipate this particular outcome. 

I will take full responsibility if there is a bug in opensim code that affects my clients that would have been prevented if I had used a stable branch, but I do actually trust you guys too - you do great work, I read every commit log (evidently not thoroughly enough) and I use my experience to make a call on whether a breaking change has been put in or not. In this situation, what would have been nice would have been a simple switch to return to normal. We saw the joke last night and yes, we fell about laughing, thinking it was a freaky occurrence on a highly-loaded sim, never for one moment realising this was going to strike all our servers today.

ReactionGrid is a young business, we're pushing out there to find customers who are willing to go with us through the bumps, ride the fun little features, because we really do believe in the platform, even at this early stage. I didn't start working with OpenSim til May last year, so I didn't know this was likely to happen. 

From: opensim-users-bounces at lists.berlios.de [mailto:opensim-users-bounces at lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of MW
Sent: 01 April 2009 11:27
To: opensim-users at lists.berlios.de
Subject: Re: [Opensim-users] Strange effekt / Avatar totaly stretched

I understand that it has caused you problems and we are sorry for that but to be honest, its not a good idea to be running trunk in any production set up or for business use. Trunk is for development and can be broke at any time.

We do release "stable" tagged versions and we strongly suggest that anyone using opensim for business or production use sticks to those. They all have their problems but trunk just can't be depended on to be working/stable or anything. 

The only people who should be using trunk are developers, testers and people who want to try the very lastest changes.

All the developers work very hard for nothing in return so its a small thing for some of us to put a small pank in TRUNK once a year.

Again I do understand it has caused you some problems but we offer all our work free and as I said we strongly advise people to use the tagged versions. 

--- On Wed, 1/4/09, Chris Hart <Chris at codetorque.co.uk> wrote:

From: Chris Hart <Chris at codetorque.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [Opensim-users] Strange effekt / Avatar totaly stretched
To: opensim-users at lists.berlios.de
Date: Wednesday, 1 April, 2009, 9:12 AM

Wow, you're kidding me?

So, those of us trying to run a business promoting OpenSim to pioneering

business folks and educators who are VW newbies have to cancel all appointments

because of a prank? "I'm sorry, this doesn't normally happen, this

is a prank"

Thanks guys - didn't need this first thing today. So what's the

solution? Set all servers to April 2nd?

Anyone who knows me knows I'm easy going and enjoy having fun, but not when

this affects my business, potential income, and hence my
 family.

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[mailto:opensim-users-bounces at lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of Frisby, Adam

Sent: 01 April 2009 06:21

To: opensim-users at lists.berlios.de

Subject: Re: [Opensim-users] Strange effekt / Avatar totaly stretched

Yeah, I think it's the april fools joke. Blame Teravus. ;)

Adam

> -----Original Message-----

> From: opensim-users-bounces at lists.berlios.de [mailto:opensim-users-

> bounces at lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of John Sheridan

> Sent: Tuesday, 31 March 2009 9:07 PM

> To: opensim-users at lists.berlios.de

> Subject: Re: [Opensim-users] Strange effekt / Avatar totaly stretched

> 

> Well, its not the clock not unless it triggered something thats not

> effected by rolling the clock back.  As well its not Hippo since the

> vanilla SL viewer is doing the same thing.   Its also
 apparently not

> fixed by updating to svn 8951.  I'll go ahead and plug this into

Mantis

> now. :P

> 

> John Sheridan wrote:

> > Just to test I tried rolling back the clock on my server to the 31st

> > with no effect.  I'm re-updating now to today's svn. 

Although I

> wonder

> > if perhaps this could be a viewer issue?  I've not yet tried with

> > something other then Hippo.

> >

> >

> > Jonathan Greenlee wrote:

> >

> >> It must be a date triggered "bug" in the server.  I get

the effect

> when I use opensim 8742 now, everything was fine before with 8742, and

> everything is fine in a very old Opensim I still have installed on the

> same mac mini.

> >> All using the same viewer.

> >>

> >> Sent from my iPhone

> >>

> >> On Mar 31, 2009, at 10:06 PM, John
 Sheridan

<john at pseudospace.net>

> wrote:

> >>

> >> YES, YES!  I'm having this too!  Everything was fine last

night and

> this

> >> morning after upgrading to svn 8927, but this evening after

logging

> in

> >> all avatars are distorted in the same way.  Has anyone put this

in

> >> Mantis yet?

> >>

> >> Ursula MATOVA wrote:

> >> Same here  Stefan ...

> >> ... But remember it's April, 1st :D

> >> Regards

> >>

> >> Le 1 avr. 09 à 00:42, StefanL a écrit :

> >>

> >>

> >> Hello list ..

> >>

> >> Friends and I are all really some kind of stretched.

> >> We tried different sims and all that .. Anybody else

> >> experience this ?   Lbsa plaza seems normal ..

> >>

> >>

>
 >> Ist that the aprils fool joke from the developers ??

> >>

> >>

> >> Best regards

> >> Wordfromthe Wise

> >> Akira Sonoda

> >>

> >> Pictures are here :

> >>

http://www.flickr.com/photos/28957438@N04/3402171863/sizes/o/in/set-

> 72157613

> >> 060633763/

> >> and

> >>

http://www.flickr.com/photos/28957438@N04/3402978628/sizes/o/in/set-

> 72157613

> >> 060633763/

> >>

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