I am not sure what the historical reasons were for adding multipliers to the numbers, but one thing we need to remember going forward is that for much of the development period of the OpenSimulator codebase, core developers and anyone submitting patches were prohibited from looking at the viewer code due to the GPL license. So, I will assume that these were set to match the numbers seen when logged into the SL grid not knowing whether the numbers affected viewer behavior.
We do have a responsibility to weigh the facts and make good decisions on behalf of all users of OpenSimulator and part of that process is communicating with the user base when we are facing major deviations from existing code. With that being said, I am strongly in favor of using accurate metrics for simulator monitoring. But, I don't think accusing anyone of dishonesty for wanting to gather needed facts before moving forward is a good approach. -BlueWall On Sat, 2015-04-25 at 20:28 +0000, Maxwell, Douglas CIV USARMY ARL (US) wrote: ... > Folks, you may not realize this but knowingly propagating the > erroneous code is intellectually dishonest and has already wasted > precious research funding. That we are even debating whether or not > to fix the simulator reporting mechanisms is disturbing. > > > > What we should be debating is "how". The MOSES project has provided a > solution that works for us and we need your knowledgeable feedback as > core code experts to know if our solution is feasible for the > community. > > _______________________________________________ Opensim-dev mailing list [email protected] http://opensimulator.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev
