Hi, So, Snowglobe 2 is out there and ready to build/hack. Well, almost. What we have today is basically the Viewer 2.0 beta source code + all the Snowglobe branding on top of it but lots of Snowglobe specific features are still missing. Before I go into the details of what's left to be done (and where you can help), some pointers to orient yourself:
- svn : the code is available off : https://svn.secondlife.com/svn/linden/projects/2010/snowglobe/trunk I choose svn over hg uniquely for practical reasons: we needed to go through an export script anyway so rewriting the export for hg while keeping the rest unchanged was a time saver. It'll also make merge from Snowglobe 1.3 based trunk easier (svn to svn merge). - bundles: they are posted on : http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Source_downloads The usual stuff, no change from the old 1.3 code base (artwork, libs and source tarballs if you don't like svn) At that point, building should be no different from before. If you use develop.py, it should be a piece of cake. For the sake of completeness though, I'm doing right now a build "from scratch" on Mac so I'll catch anything that I may have missed in the svn commit this afternoon. Since I had to work around some unexpected svn crashes, I did some commit manually and may have missed something. Let me know if you see something going awry on Windows or Linux. For those of you compiling standalone and/or on Linux 64: I have *not* done *any* build using those configurations. I did merge some of the build changes when doing the branding merge but, without building myself, I'm sure I missed some important things. For those issues, please discuss here or, better, log a PJIRA and discuss there or attach a patch (please set "Affect version" to "Snowglobe 2.0"). You'll see that, though lots of files are new, most of the structure of the code base hasn't changed that much. - What needs to be done Now we have the code out, what's next? 2 categories of things: - Scripts and build: I still have unfinished or hacky scripts on the internal side of things that I need to polish and push to the main trunk so that updates are easier. In particular, I need to make sure the automated build on the public branch works again. - Snowglobe features merge: I haven't merged all the things we've been doing in 2009. Lots of those biggest things we did in Snowglobe though are now in Viewer 2.0 so won't need to be merged. Some of the big features though are: - OGP-Login: Pixelq already volunteered to help merge that back - SOCKS5: here, Robin volunteered - Chat translator: for that one, that would be nice if someone would volunteer to do the merge - Login drop down: same I think I can take care of the other small fixes especially since I have access to the internal JIRA that details which ones have been merged in the Viewer 2.0. It's a little tedious work but not fundamentally hard. I think it'll take me a couple of weeks to get all that in (that plus finishing the script) - How you can help As usual: testing, building and submitting patches :) PJIRA is open. Please set "Affect version" to "Snowglobe 2.0" for bugs found on that code base. Snowglobe 2.0 and Viewer 2.0 are still very much young and starting and need our collective care. I'm very happy personally to have Snowglobe now tracking the main viewer (and getting out of the business of doing cherry pick merges of huge feature sets...) so that our effort here can get to the main viewer faster while we still maintain the freedom to experiment. I'm really looking forward for more innovative Snowglobe developments now we're back tracking the main code base. Cheers, - Merov
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