[Opensim-users] Warning, one month Warning

[John Mieske]

This is not fun to me.. and with people like John Ward telling me to never
reply to this group again is why I got tired of OpenSim and why I decided
its not worth my time to help with it any longer.

John

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Karen Palen <karenpalensl at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is a learning process for all of us!
>
> Hopefully a relatively fun way to learn though :-)
>
> Karen
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Master_Mirage <mirage123 at verizon.net>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> The point is that if you run "development" software for "production" you
>> WILL have problems!
>>
>> One of the subtle differences between OpenSource development "closed
>> source"
>> development is that "there is no bottom to the rabbit hole"! You can
>> change
>> anything and run the most unstable "bleeding edge" software imaginable.
>>
>> Commercial ("closed source") software does not get released until much
>> later
>> in the design cycle. If OpenSim were "closed source" then likely V0.6.7
>> would be "production" and V 0.6.8 would be "beta" - if indeed ANY of it
>> was
>> allowed outside the factory!
>>
>> Essentially the difference is that you get to make the choice and live
>> with
>> the results!
>>
>> If you are prepared for things a lot more subtle than the April 1 pranks
>> to
>> go wrong then running the "head" revision helps the developers by testing
>> the software in a realistic environment using "standard idiots" as uisers.
>>
>> If you are trying to build a virtual world and want to concentrate on
>> getting stuff built and working "in world" then you should be using one of
>> the release versions!
>>
>> Just because the nightly builds or "head" version doesn't break often does
>> *
>> not* mean that they won't break!
>>
>> The April 1 antics should serve as a reminder of this!
>>
>> Karen
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Master_Mirage <mirage123 at verizon.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > Yah i remeber last year, got alot of ppl mad too. The problem wasent so
>> > mutch
>> > about the prank it was not knowing one would be played. Hopefully at
>> least
>> > this time grid ops are better informed than last time.
>> > So in that way i have to say ty for the reminder.
>> > Stick ppl was funny just happened in an un-expected time and way.
>> > It was quickly un-done and as said allready check mantis on that day as
>> > they
>> > usualy allready have away to counter it if needed.
>> > As far as If its right or wrong to do it. Ill avoid that topic lol.
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Well for me last year was a matter of not knowing what was beeing reffered
>> too.
>> It was at the same time as real virus threat was bbeing warrned about and
>> me
>> not knowing exactly what it was. Thought that thay were talking about a
>> trick on OSG users or a joke just between devs ect..
>> I never considered it would be done in the master svn code.
>> When i saw that something was wrong, It became a series of things as i
>> dident know and made the worst assumption and that my system had been
>> hacked
>> and nothing todo with the build.
>>
>> Anyway, For me it came down to just not knowing what was beeing reffered
>> too.
>> I really dident care about the prank its selph. At the same time there
>> were
>> some that seemed to be using it as an excuse to make alot of trouble. Im
>> shure theres some that remeber that too.
>> New ppl may be getting the wrong impression and dont know what scars there
>> were from then.
>>
>> In hindsight (now that i know) its not a big deal and is done to have fun.
>> It doset make it into tagged rev. it dosent harm data or have some black
>> hidden stuff in it. Its just a joke and lives for one day in a dev. git
>> build is all.
>>
>> The sky is not falling :)  Have some fun if its done at all this year.
>>
>>
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