Awesome to see something posted so quickly (though huge shame that testing resources like this group and BSI weren't utilized).
Can't help but notice we've lost some functionality from Snowglobe 1.3.... namely the drop down to choose the user name on login, and panning around the mini-map. What else from recent builds may have been lost/skipped/thrown away? TriloByte Zanzibar On Feb 23, 2010, at 11:42 AM, Howard Look wrote: > Hi Open Source devs, > > As you probably saw, we just launched Viewer 2 to public Beta. We've been > dark for a long time, but it is for good reason: We needed to do a total > overhaul of our user experience and that's not something best done by a large > group. Honestly, there are times when we had an awful lot of cooks in the > kitchen just with our internal team! > > We also today are launching Snowglobe 2, the Open Source package of Viewer > 2.0. Merov has been working really hard to make this happen on the same day > that we launched the Viewer 2 Public Beta, so please send him lots of love. > As I type, Merov is pushing the svn repository and updating the Snowglobe > wiki. > > We've been completely consumed with getting Viewer 2.0 out the door, which is > why you've heard so little from us about where we plan to go from here. But I > want to reiterate: We are committed to open source and to supporting the open > development community. We embrace the notion that this community develops > viewers that serve the needs of a wide range of Residents while we pursue a > broader consumer market. > > I realize that it frustrates some that we are not a completely "open > development" project, i.e. we do not do our internal development in a public > repository. I do not expect this change in the near future. Over time, we > hope that core components of our code can be developed in the open, while the > functionality that we wish to keep proprietary can be developed internally. I > expect us to evolve to a model that is less like Firefox, and more like > Safari+WebKit, where the core engine is an open development project but the > high level app is proprietary. Unfortunately, we're not there yet. Our code > is not yet modular enough to support that model. > > There have been many wonderful ideas here recently regarding viewer > scriptability, and that's definitely an area we intend to pursue. It goes > hand-in-hand with making a more modular code base. The time hasn't been right > for us to engage deeply in this conversation; again, we've been quite busy > getting 2.0 out the door. Once the dust settles from the 2.0 launch and > we're on track to deliver 2.1 in short order, we'll be back and very > interested in engaging on this topic. > > Thanks for your support and patience. > > Regards, > Howard > >> > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
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