On the call: Andrew Fitz Gibbon, Charlie Peck, Jessie Puls, Joel Morrissette, Mic Bowman, Tom Murphy
Next senate meeting: Mar 6, 2009 in SciSim at Kepler (193, 191, 45), or possibly on Joel's island where we will have inworld sound
Inworld transcript from Keplar: no soup today due to region crash, see below
Voice
Joel has 3DI code installed and is configuring
Some jockeying from Fedora instructions to Ubuntu on his region
Interesting point: My presumption is we are adopting Debian as our base distro and will translate stuff to this framework, whether stuff is documentation, source code, or binaries
New Region Software
Mic reported two gotchas in bootstrapping us a new region base
This was pretty amazing given the 400+ repository revisions that took place since the last region base
One gotcha was a setting in a file that needed adjusting
The second gotcha was recovering from region crashing initiated by an avatar scanner being used. The anticipated fix was moving from the .net engine to the x engine
How to Crash a Region
The user with the avatar scanner and the slope detector entered the region where we were and surprisingly crashed the region
Mic will be debugging the interaction with the X engine
Fitz will also be debugging on his region, which is easier to take up and down and/or crash
Hypergridding and SLURLs
After consistently getting stuck in a region with SL browser; I curious about getting unstuck via something like a SL
URL.
Turns out SLURLS work inworld
I followed the link Mic gave me in chat and initiated hyperlinking to Mic's personal, behind a firewall region. Unfortunately, I my browser froze and then crashed
Extensions to LSL modeling
Mic challenged us to consider what additional functionality we wanted/needed to do science in a region
This is really important short-medium-long term planning
It led to a discussion on what sort of packaging we do
A synthesis of the recommendations I heard was certainly to provide the packages needed we could apt-get to a bare bones region install. A good idea is to also group related packages into a more manageable chunks. Having a whole enchilada install available for a new region is also a good thing.
... Tom Murphy