Re: [opensource-dev] Open Development project: extending avatar wearables

2010-03-22 Thread Morgaine
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 4:35 AM, Bryon Ruxton wrote: - Could you please stop putting everything into that sidebar as the only way to access stuff. You've kept wanting to make this "communicator window " before into a single un-detachable block. And despite many of use hating it and a

Re: [opensource-dev] Request for clarification on mailing list guidelines

2010-03-22 Thread Philippe (Merov) Bossut
Hi, Each tool has its pluses and minuses and we use a variety of them: - Mailing list: may be the most widely used tool. The problem I see with it is that it mixes everything: small requests, long discussions, policies, technicalities, etc... Other FLOSS projects use a variety of lists, breaking t

Re: [opensource-dev] Open Development project: extending avatar wearables

2010-03-22 Thread Bryon Ruxton
Could you please stop putting everything into that sidebar as the only way to access stuff. You¹ve kept wanting to make this ³communicator window ³ before into a single un-detachable block. And despite many of use hating it and asking for you to make separate floaters, (or at least give us that opt

Re: [opensource-dev] "vendor" branch and Snowglobe 2.0

2010-03-22 Thread Philippe (Merov) Bossut
Hi Carlo, On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 4:19 AM, Carlo Wood wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 05:52:55PM -0700, Philippe (Merov) Bossut wrote: > > Long Story > > I'm pretty much done with all the export script writing now and I'm > moving to > > make all that live so that updates from the viewer trunk

Re: [opensource-dev] Moving forward with open development

2010-03-22 Thread Colin Kern
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 11:42 AM, JB Hancroft wrote: > I'm concerned that there are so many divergent viewer projects, that the > end-user experience is going to be fractured. > What happens when I want "this shiny new thing" (available only with the ABC > viewer), and "that other shiny" (availabl

Re: [opensource-dev] Open Development project: extending avatar wearables

2010-03-22 Thread Maya Remblai
All interesting ideas, but it would be prudent to include a floater as an option. Not only will it make things easier on experienced users and those who don't like the sidebar, it will make things easier for the devs making versions of Viewer 2.0 for photo-sensitive people to use without issue.

Re: [opensource-dev] Open Development project: extending avatar wearables

2010-03-22 Thread Nyx Linden
Good question! There is still a lot of detail left out of these descriptions, but we are planning on moving the UI in the appearance editor into the sidebar, along with creating a new outfit editor UI. You will still see the results of the changes you are making on your avatar in-world in real time

Re: [opensource-dev] Open Development project: extending avatar wearables

2010-03-22 Thread Argent Stonecutter
On 2010-03-22, at 12:45, Nyx Linden wrote: > 1) A new panel to edit what is stored in your saved outfit without > creating a new one. >This will include both an inventory view and a view of your outfit > itself, so you can drag items from your inventory to your outfit > without > having an e

Re: [opensource-dev] Open Development project: extending avatar wearables

2010-03-22 Thread Nyx Linden
Hi Mike, I'm already on sl-ux and will keep an eye on it when I have the time. I'll defer most discussion and decision making to a central location (probably the forums & wiki), but would be happy to come to a group meeting if my schedule permits (that's a little late for my timezone, but n

Re: [opensource-dev] Open Development project: extending avatar wearables

2010-03-22 Thread Mike Monkowski
Nyx, would you be willing to come to the User Experience Interest Group meeting, Thursdays from 3-4PM at Hippotropolis ( http://slurl.com/secondlife/Hippotropolis/43/104/25 ), or share your thoughts on the sl-ux mailing list? Jacek Antonelli (copied here) is the moderator of the UXIG meeting.

Re: [opensource-dev] Third party viewer policy: commencement date

2010-03-22 Thread Mike Monkowski
+1 Mike Jesse Barnett wrote: > Jeez I fail to understand why in the heck LL can not understand this > simple concept. > > Linden devs have introduced bugs before that have allowed content to be > stolen, no mod scripts to be readable, and inventories worth several > hundred dollars to vanish

Re: [opensource-dev] Open Development project: extending avatar wearables

2010-03-22 Thread Robert Martin
While you are working in this area one killer feature would be to have a way to create a "base outfit" list colors and then have the program create copies with each color (looking at the xml export files this would be just a matter of UUID patching and flipping 3 fields in the data) Bonus points

Re: [opensource-dev] 32 bit Official viewer 2 beta, Snowglobe binary (rev 3229) does't run 'out of the box'

2010-03-22 Thread Dzonatas Sol
Carlo Wood wrote: > What is the assertion failure? > > This is the error right after one types in "./snowglobe" or "./secondlife" to run the startup script: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-open.c: 643: _dl_open: Assertion `_dl_debug_initialize (0, args.nsid)->r_state == RT_CONSISTENT' fai

Re: [opensource-dev] 32 bit Official viewer 2 beta, Snowglobe binary (rev 3229) does't run 'out of the box'

2010-03-22 Thread Carlo Wood
What is the assertion failure? -- Carlo Wood ___ 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

Re: [opensource-dev] Open Development project: extending avatar wearables

2010-03-22 Thread Morgaine
Nyx, it's excellent news that you're starting this open development project. Well done! There's one thing to keep in mind though, so that it doesn't come as a surprise to anyone at the Lab (no surprise to yourself of course). When development is open and many community teams are involved, some t

Re: [opensource-dev] Open Development project: extending avatar wearables

2010-03-22 Thread Dzonatas Sol
Nyx Linden wrote: > Some of the features we want to implement: > 1) A new panel to edit what is stored in your saved outfit without > creating a new one. > This will include both an inventory view and a view of your outfit > itself, so you can drag items from your inventory to your outfit wit

Re: [opensource-dev] Open Development project: extending avatar wearables

2010-03-22 Thread Latif Khalifa
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Nyx Linden wrote: > Greetings Opensource-dev! [snip] > Some of the features we want to implement: > 1) A new panel to edit what is stored in your saved outfit without > creating a new one. >    This will include both an inventory view and a view of your outfit > it

[opensource-dev] Open Development project: extending avatar wearables

2010-03-22 Thread Nyx Linden
Greetings Opensource-dev! This tiny robot is going to be working over the next few weeks to begin working on the next iteration of avatar features, and needs your help! We're hoping to continue our overhaul of how you manage your appearance. Since we're shooting for moving towards quarterly

[opensource-dev] 32 bit Official viewer 2 beta, Snowglobe binary (rev 3229) does't run 'out of the box'

2010-03-22 Thread Dzonatas Sol
For awhile, I was able to download the Snowglobe binary and run it on my Debian Lenny system. Now this didn't work with the latest Official release binary and snowglobe binary. Actually, it's the included 32 bit libraries themselves that cause a problem which gives an assertion failure when sta

Re: [opensource-dev] Third party viewer policy: commencement date

2010-03-22 Thread Morgaine
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Kent Quirk (Q Linden) wrote: > I'm emphatically not a lawyer and I don't speak for our legal team. But: > > * Legalese is a specialized language. It's not strictly English, and it's > not always amenable to "common sense" interpretation. Think of lawyers as > peop

Re: [opensource-dev] Third party viewer policy: commencement date

2010-03-22 Thread Tayra Dagostino
Policy and license (or else) change aren't retroactive, never -- Sent by iPhone Il giorno 22/mar/2010, alle ore 16.51, Carlo Wood ha scritto: > Um yes... I cannot agree with this TPV (I explicitely don't). > What we need is it to be either changed, or have a real > lawyer look at it and

Re: [opensource-dev] [POLICY] coding the TPV policy (was: Third party viewer policy: commencement date)

2010-03-22 Thread Lance Corrimal
Am Montag, 22. März 2010 16:47:39 schrieb Boroondas Gupte: > > Would you still launch that text editor? > > Boroondas ...no. ___ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the poli

Re: [opensource-dev] Third party viewer policy: commencement date

2010-03-22 Thread Carlo Wood
Um yes... I cannot agree with this TPV (I explicitely don't). What we need is it to be either changed, or have a real lawyer look at it and explain the ramifications. What it says now is pretty clear to me: if I contribute to some GPL-ed third party viewer and later someone else uses it to connect

[opensource-dev] [POLICY] coding the TPV policy (was: Third party viewer policy: commencement date)

2010-03-22 Thread Boroondas Gupte
Let's see where this analogy takes us ... On 03/21/2010 06:24 PM, Kent Quirk (Q Linden) wrote: > Think of lawyers as people who write code in an underspecified language for a > buggy compiler, and you begin to understand why legalese is the way it is. Imagine you're a law student, almost finished

Re: [opensource-dev] Wiki posting: Open Source Repository Strategy

2010-03-22 Thread Robin Cornelius
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Kent Quirk (Q Linden) wrote: > The merge to Snowglobe isn't automatic -- it probably requires intelligent > merging. So if that includes leaving things out, so be it. The right way to > do it will probably be to undo the changesets so that it doesn't become a > f

Re: [opensource-dev] food for (funny) thoughts...

2010-03-22 Thread Jonathan Irvin
You're damn right it does! I just installed the LTS Beta 1 on my system yesterday. Had a few quirks, but other than that it worked fine. Not much difference between Karmic, but I suspect more to come in Beta 2, RC, and Final. Jonathan Irvin Cell: +1-318-426-5253 Email: djfoxys...@gmail.com On

Re: [opensource-dev] Wiki posting: Open Source Repository Strategy

2010-03-22 Thread Kent Quirk (Q Linden)
On Mar 22, 2010, at 12:58 AM, Latif Khalifa wrote: > On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 4:38 AM, Kent Quirk (Q Linden) > wrote: >> Hi, all. I've created a draft of our repository strategy for how we will be >> handling open development branches at LL, and posted an annotated diagram on >> the wiki. >>

Re: [opensource-dev] Wiki posting: Open Source Repository Strategy

2010-03-22 Thread Kent Quirk (Q Linden)
At this point, our internal branches still contain proprietary libraries and parts of our server code. We have to have an explicit export process to block that. We have a team working on "source code splitup" to finish the separation of our systems into libraries, and when that's finished I beli

Re: [opensource-dev] Wiki posting: Open Source Repository Strategy

2010-03-22 Thread Kent Quirk (Q Linden)
On Mar 22, 2010, at 9:11 AM, Boroondas Gupte wrote: > Hi Q > > thanks for illustrating the planned process. > > On 03/22/2010 04:38 AM, Kent Quirk (Q Linden) wrote: >> >> Since it's policy we intend to follow, please edit only for clarity. If it >> needs substantive tweaking, please let us do

Re: [opensource-dev] Wiki posting: Open Source Repository Strategy

2010-03-22 Thread Boroondas Gupte
Hi Q thanks for illustrating the planned process. On 03/22/2010 04:38 AM, Kent Quirk (Q Linden) wrote: > Since it's policy we intend to follow, please edit only for clarity. If it > needs substantive tweaking, please let us do it. > As not everyone who might find that wiki article will be rea

Re: [opensource-dev] Third party viewer policy: commencement date

2010-03-22 Thread Gareth Nelson
https://lists.secondlife.com/pipermail/opensource-dev/2010-March/000521.html On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Gareth Nelson wrote: > You too eh? > See my correspondence with RMS that I forwarded to the list a while back > > On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Lance Corrimal > wrote: >> Am Sonntag,

Re: [opensource-dev] Third party viewer policy: commencement date

2010-03-22 Thread Gareth Nelson
You too eh? See my correspondence with RMS that I forwarded to the list a while back On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Lance Corrimal wrote: > Am Sonntag, 21. März 2010 18:24:13 schrieb Kent Quirk (Q Linden): > >> If you have legal questions about the implication of >> documents, you should ask a

Re: [opensource-dev] Moving forward with open development

2010-03-22 Thread Jason Giglio
Aleric Inglewood wrote: > It would be totally not-done to then take my code and release it under > a non-GPL license, most specifically, to release binaries without the > ability for users to get the source code. That is why I got so upset To be clear, Linden Lab does still plan to do this. There

Re: [opensource-dev] Wiki posting: Open Source Repository Strategy

2010-03-22 Thread Aleric Inglewood
*confused* I thought that we were going to use hg, so that commits made internally can be easilly and frequently pushed to a public repository. Is that "viewer-public"? Then why is there is there still a "viewer-external" using SVN? That kinda defeats the purpose of hg? I thought, and think, that

Re: [opensource-dev] Third party viewer policy: commencement date

2010-03-22 Thread Ryan McDougall
Although the text of the TPV policy doesn't mention this, to protect developers who don't want their viewer to be subject to the unnamed penalties of said policy, Joe himself has said the following: "[The TPV policy] only governs viewers that actually do connect to the SL grid, not those that are

Re: [opensource-dev] Moving forward with open development

2010-03-22 Thread Aleric Inglewood
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 10:41 PM, Dzonatas Sol wrote: > Ambroff Linden wrote: > > I don't know if this is true or not, but regardless, copyright > > assignment helps Linden enforce the GPL, which is good for everyone. > > That's why the FSF was also used as an example. > > > > -Ambroff > That is

Re: [opensource-dev] Third party viewer policy: commencement date

2010-03-22 Thread Lance Corrimal
Am Montag, 22. März 2010 12:44:57 schrieb Carlo Wood: > I'd like to see this question answered, too. > > On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 06:08:58PM +0200, Ryan McDougall wrote: > > The policy deeply confuses users and developers together, making it > > appear to me that "users" can place "developers" in v

Re: [opensource-dev] Third party viewer policy: commencement date

2010-03-22 Thread Lance Corrimal
Am Sonntag, 21. März 2010 18:24:13 schrieb Kent Quirk (Q Linden): > If you have legal questions about the implication of > documents, you should ask a lawyer, not a mailing list. the free software foundation has been notified. expect comms from their lawyers in the near future.

Re: [opensource-dev] Third party viewer policy: commencement date

2010-03-22 Thread Carlo Wood
I'd like to see this question answered, too. On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 06:08:58PM +0200, Ryan McDougall wrote: > The policy deeply confuses users and developers together, making it > appear to me that "users" can place "developers" in violation of your > policy against their will. > > Let me explai

[opensource-dev] food for (funny) thoughts...

2010-03-22 Thread Lance Corrimal
Just saw an announcement for ubuntu 10.04... is it just me or does the colorscheme of SL 2.0 really fit into 10.04's default desktop color scheme like a foot in a sock? http://is.gd/aSANa *grin* LC ___ Policies and (un)subscribe information availab

Re: [opensource-dev] Wiki posting: Open Source Repository Strategy

2010-03-22 Thread Anders Arnholm
For a first shot it looks fine. I hope thou in the furture snow-glow will hang in hg directly from the viewer-public the. Svn branches between will only make extra work not really needed. But no need to stress that extra work. A project like snowglow is the most gaining on a distributed cm