[Opensim-users] Strange effekt / Avatar totaly stretched

Wed Apr 1 11:54:23 UTC 2009

Because taking seriously an unexpected event April the first it not a  good
idea ;)

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:57 PM, MW <michaelwri22 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> I can understand your point and as I said we are sorry for any problems
> this issue caused.
>
> But its just that comments like "Now to waste an hour of my time patching
> all my servers." that just make me wonder why "I have wasted all those
> thousands of hours working on opensim and doing all that work for free".
> When what we get in return is people moaning about spending a hour on
> something.
>
> I'm just talking from a personal point of view here (and in no way
> represent the thoughts of the other developers), but its just makes me more
> and more wonder why we do this.
>
> BTW: Just so people know, I believe the 0.6.4RC that Stefan tagged also has
> this issue in it, but then thats most likely why its a RC and not a stable
> release.
>
> --- 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: michaelwri22 at yahoo.co.uk, opensim-users at lists.berlios.de
> Date: Wednesday, 1 April, 2009, 11:46 AM
>
>
>  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.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> From: opensim-users-bounces at lists.berlios.de
>
> [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-
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> > 72157613
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> > >> 060633763/
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