Can you elaborate on what the new rendering limits are?
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Kent Quirk (Q Linden) <[email protected]>wrote: > > > I absolutely claim that 1.23 is not only of releasable quality, but > the best viewer we've ever shipped. It met its design goals on RC1. > The bugs that were found and fixed in the next 3 RCs were minimal. On > a global statistics level, the crash rates are lower than they've ever > been, even when you include crashes caused by specific video cards. > > There are some individuals who are upset about some of the design > decisions, like the redesign of pie menus. That's not a quality issue. > There are other individuals who are upset about some of the technical > decisions, such as the imposition of rendering limits where we never > had them before. That's not a quality issue either. And there are > people who don't like the new Adult-Only stuff. That's also not a > quality issue. > > The definition of quality is meeting the specification. We executed on > this viewer better than we've ever done it before, and I'm pretty > proud of our team for doing it. > > By the way, contrary to the implication in the subject line, we > released 1.23.4 almost exactly according to the schedule I announced > internally in February. The internal decision to ship was based on > quality. As every professional software organization does, for every > open issue we balance the risk of shipping a product with that issue > against the risk of trying to fix it. When all the risks of shipping > are lower than the risks of fixing, we ship it. Which is what we did > with RC4. > > Q > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting > privileges >
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