On 16 August 2010 17:58, Andromeda Quonset <andromedaquon...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > At the risk of upsetting the decorum here, I just can't let this go by. > Mr. Oz Linden, perhaps YOU should depart from ALL viewer development. > Statements of "It is absolutely not going to happen, and any suggestion to > that effect will be ignored." are not going to endear yourself with the > community. Not that I can speak for anyone but myself, but your statement > is extremely Draconian in nature and is only going to stir up trouble in the > long run. You should recognize that it is occasionally helpful to simply > throw out the baby with the bath water, and start fresh. > The Snowstorm project is aimed at dramatically increasing community involvement in Viewer development and improving communications around it. Part of that improvement involves increasing the depth and clarity of those communications; being definitive about our future plans and managing expectations so that everyone knows what's coming to the platform. When we can be definitive about what's open for consideration in a particular area, we can save a lot of fruitless arguing. We are open to being guided by constructive arguments, requests and code contributions; that's what Snowstorm is all about. Contributors may guide us in directions we'd never expected, which would be fantastic, or just help us prioritise and fix existing problems. "Make the sidebar undockable" or "Reduce the vertical area taken by chat messages" are requests that can go onto the backlog for discussion, triage and implementation. "Ditch everything new and go back to what it was before" is neither a constructive argument nor a well-specified request. It tells us nothing about what you believe to be wrong with the new UI, why you believe it, and what we can do to fix it. Once we are able to discuss specifics, then we can start working on them. Linden Lab has the final say in what goes into the Linden Lab viewer. A third-party viewer team has the final say in what goes into their viewer. Linus Torvalds has the final say in what goes into the Linux kernel. If you want something in the kernel that Linus doesn't, you can just clone the main source tree and pull in updates while you make your own changes, then distribute your own kernel. Distributed version control's great like that, and it's why we moved to Mercurial. It makes it much easier for third-party viewers to maintain their own UI features, or contribute them back to us, while regularly pulling in the improvements we make to the underlying platform so as to make Second Life better for everyone. -- Yoz
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