Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Tracker crash

2010-05-21 Thread Anders Gidenstam
On Fri, 21 May 2010, Peter Morgan wrote: a restart is also required after a DNS change of a server, or a new one etc. Is there a way to reset an mpserver remotely? eg reloading config every hour or remote telnet command ? No and yes. :) There is no way built into fgms (and adding one would

[Flightgear-devel] [Proposal] Class-based MP aircraft visibility

2010-05-21 Thread Stuart Buchanan
Hi All, My patch to hide other MP aircraft opens the door to providing a useful function to allow multiple different communities of flyers to use the global FG airspace independantly, without requiring additional sets of MP servers. The main use-case is a group of pilots wishing to practise

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Proposal] Class-based MP aircraft visibility

2010-05-21 Thread Anders Gidenstam
On Fri, 21 May 2010, Stuart Buchanan wrote: The obvious downside of this is that it may fragment the user-base. However, if by default everyone is able to see everyone else, I think that risk can be minimized. Thoughts? Hi, Sounds like a pretty good idea. One technical comment: Given the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Developers

2010-05-21 Thread Reagan Thomas
Peter Morgan wrote: Its is/was bit of a dark how to get commit permission to FG and its seems to be one Curt in control. Can someone explain to process to submitting patches to this new git scenario, or are we to be held in the grey area of hopefulnes as well ? eg I'd like to submit a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Proposal] Class-based MP aircraft visibility

2010-05-21 Thread Stuart Buchanan
Csaba Halász wrote: On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Stuart Buchanan wrote: My proposal is that users may optionally set a class or community they are flying in (say /sim/multiplay/class) that is exposed over MP. For example: Default - the default Newbie - for new flyers Student - those

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Tracker crash

2010-05-21 Thread Peter Morgan
If we get to for example 50 mpservers, then there's gonna be a lot of admin involved for every change On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Anders Gidenstam anders-...@gidenstam.orgwrote: On Fri, 21 May 2010, Peter Morgan wrote: a restart is also required after a DNS change of a server, or a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Developers

2010-05-21 Thread Peter Morgan
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Reagan Thomas thomas...@gmail.com wrote: Peter Morgan wrote: Its is/was bit of a dark how to get commit permission to FG and its seems to be one Curt in control. Can someone explain to process to submitting patches to this new git scenario, or are we to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Developers

2010-05-21 Thread Martin Spott
Peter Morgan wrote: 2) two patches have already been submitted to this list and NONE have been appliced As far as my memory serves (I might be wrong and I'm currently not in a position to check) someone's been posting plausible objections against at least one patch for the B787 which (the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Developers

2010-05-21 Thread Martin Spott
Martin Spott wrote: As far as my memory serves (I might be wrong and I'm currently not in a position to check) someone's been posting plausible objections against at least one patch for the B787 which (the objections) had never been adressed. Yup, here's the respective posting:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [PATCH] Selectively ignore other MP aircraft

2010-05-21 Thread Stuart Buchanan
Stuart Buchanan wrote: Alexander Barrett wrote: Excellent idea and one I think many will appreciate. I haven't had time to look at it yet so please excuse the question if its obvious from within the code: Does this reset with every MP session, or is it easy to clear the list either