Reports of bugs/exploits would be of immense value to us. I may not be
the best point of contact, though, because I have more client than
server expertise. Lemme ask around and see if one of my colleagues
wants to be the point person.
In general, expect the protocol ("the message template" we call it) to
change with each release. Sorry. Almost none of the changes will be in
the core login/object transmission parts, but our scheme isn't flexible
enough to add new fields without changing the "message template
checksum" that gets checked on each login.
We're working on more flexible messaging that should make your tasks easy.
James
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello James,
Welcome to the list! I'm sure you will soon be inundated with questions,
many even having no relevance to libsecondlife. ;) If you don't mind, I
have some questions:
1) What portions of the user interface do you work on currently? Are there
any juicy details you can tell us about features coming soon?
2) I feel it would be beneficial to Linden Labs and libsecondlife to
establish some kind of direct reporting method to allow us to better, and
more quickly, report discovered exploits/flaws in the protocol. Due to our
technical expertise, bugs/flaws that we report are generally more likely to
be real problems than those reported by the public in general.
Particularly, protocol exploits should get the attention of Linden staff as
quickly as possible. Do you and the other Lindens feel this would be
something of value?
3) In the spirit of give and take, and given our reporting of bugs/exploits
(as in question 2, above), it would be highly desirable from our perspective
to be given advance notice (or any notice at all, at this point) about
changes in the protocol. Any information at all would be better than
nothing. Just an informal quick email to the list would be great. Do you
think any kind of collaboration such as this would be possible?
Thanks again for joining the list!
-Sam
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Cook
Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 11:28 AM
To: Development list for libsecondlife
Subject: [libsecondlife-dev] Hello from James Linden
Hi there! I just thought I'd introduce myself before someone notices my
e-mail address on the list administration pages. :-)
I'm James Cook, aka James Linden, a developer for Linden Lab working on
Second Life. I've been with Linden Lab since early 2001, so I've seen
the progression from nothing to alpha to beta (LindenWorld) to release.
I mostly work on the user interface, but I've been all over the code.
There are a few other Lindens lurking on this list. We're really
interested in what you guys are doing. I personally love to see all the
neat tools you've developed (an IM bridge!), as well as the bugs and
exploits you're finding in our protocol stack.
Unfortunately there are some pretty steep limits to how much help I can
give you, at least for right now. We're currently closed source and our
protocol isn't published. :-( Nonetheless, feel free to ask questions.
Just be aware I'm not the official voice of Linden Lab, and I may not
be able to give satisfactory answers. :-)
James
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