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Linden Lab warns Second Life users to avoid bulk permissions feature
Linden Lab recently warned Second Life users to avoid the use of the new bulk permissions editor, a feature which was added in the 1.23 viewer. There's a lot of confused conversation and observations about the matter, some of which are contradictory, because what is happening is confusing. Some claim that the bug makes content fully-permissive. That's not entirely the case. The essential problem that is at the heart of JIRA issue SVC-4444 is that the bulk permissions feature fails to correctly and completely communicate with internal grid systems at some level and under some circumstances. All the while appearing as if it has actually done what it is supposed to have done..
2008 Hippo award nominations are open
The second annual 'Hippo' (aka Linden Lab Innovation Awards) are open for nominations. Candidates are contributors who have had the most impact on Second Life open source development in the last 12 months. Got a favorite contributor, documenter, or beneficial influence whose contribution you feel was exemplary between 1 July 2007 and 30 June 2008? Nominate them for an award!
JIRA leaked user email addresses
According to an email sent to some users of the Second Life public JIRA by Linden Lab, a number of users have unintentionally had their email address published on their JIRA profile page. Apparently JIRA profiles included the account's registered email address from 20 May to 24 May. Users whose JIRA profiles were logged as being accessed during that period have been emailed to alert them that their email addresses may have been exposed. Even though email addresses may be considered comparatively innocuous, many virtual world and MMOG users value their privacy very strongly, even if they are not anonymous. This isn't the first time that confidential user-data held by Linden Lab has been unintentionally exposed, and it would be unwise to suggest that it will be the last time. [Thanks, Sean Heying]
Angry with 1.19.1? Try Pastrami
Pastrami Linden acknowledges that reactions to Second Life viewer 1.19.1 have been mixed and highly polarized. Today (Thursday, April 10) at Noon SLT (US Pacific time) until 2PM, Pastrami will be holding a special office hours at the Brampton stage to hear your praise, or your offended indignation. Pastrami says that the Public JIRA has become backlogged and that he is hoping to be able to focus and prioritize work, given his position as project manager.
Second Life Jira issue highlights new Search/teleportation problem
Coyote Momiji alerts us to this issue, where teleporting to a Second Life sim with no point-to-point tp means that you emerge at a telehub. The previous version of Search provided a red beacon to appear at your actual destination, allowing you to complete your journey, but the new Search leaves you beacon-less, with no way to easily find where you need to go.This is currently JIRA issue #SVC-1125, and it needs attention! Go vote for this, and let's hope it gets resolved quickly ... or at least, as quickly as such things get fixed. I'm hopeful, but not silly! Well, I'm silly, but not ridiculous. Well, I'm ridiculous, but ... nevermind.[Thanks, Coyote!]
Second Life JIRA statistics site launches
A while back, Rob Linden was asking for volunteers to collect and compile periodic JIRA statistics. Jason Giglio took that idea "and kinda ran with it", producing the sljirastats website. JIRA, the issue tracker used by Linden Lab, is more or less frequently slammed for having a daunting interface. Realistically speaking, while it could probably stand some improvement if it is intended to be used by non-technical people (whether it is or not is in some doubt), it's no worse than most and better than quite a few.
A developer's comments on Philip's Second Life vision
Tateru commented on Philip's blog post about the road ahead for Second Life, and generated some interesting thoughts. She is not the only one to so comment. Nicholaz Beresford, the "mad patcher" of the Second Life client, and the man indirectly responsible for most of my current viewer configuration (I also use the visual interface patch to have a green skin, it is restful to my eyes, and they mostly work well together) has also commented.His thoughts? Well, speaking as someone with a strong daoist leaning, they make a lot of sense to me. Why do I like his patch? They focus on getting a lot of the little things right, right now. The Linden Lab developers are focussed on getting things right at some future date. Even things marked "resolved, internally fixed" on the JIRA take some time (at least a month as far as I can tell, sometimes longer) to get out of the internal fix into the main client. That means, for a month, we, the users, are still complaining, whilst the developers are saying "No problem any more." Of course there must be some delay for QA in the main client, but it seems like a way to distress the users unnecessarily. Read his thoughts, think you own, let us know. Should Linden Lab release more "bleeding edge" clients with un-QAed bug fixes so we can get that bug fix we really want at the risk of less stability?
Object pricing showstopper
In the last few days, Second Life JIRA issue SVC-930 has attracted more and more attention. Linden Lab now calls it a showstopper - which pretty much means that nothing else that interferes with correcting it should be taking place. First noted late on Thursday night after Thursday's rolling restart the bug relates to how objects are taken into inventory, and how they are re-rezzed in-world.
Linden Lab releases key JIRA statistics, calls for volunteer
Linden Lab's Rob Lanphier, their "open source busybody" released some numbers from the Public JIRA issue-tracker today as part of an evaluation of ongoing bug reporting/triage evaluation for Second Life . In the 7 days from 24 October to 30 October (inclusive), 87 issues were filed into the public issue tracker. Of these issues, 1 was misfiled, 13 resolved (or fixed internally), 8 were imported into Linden Lab's internal issue tracker. 65 haven't gone anywhere.
Second Life versus BBCode - an open letter to Philip Linden
Second Life user Jesse Barnett today posted an open letter to Philip Rosedale (aka Philip Linden) in the Second Life forums, with copies in the Public JIRA issue tracker, and in the Second Life developer mailing list. 'Well actually there is one thing we have asked and that is for bbcode to be reenabled and yet the official linden response is that "Sorry, we don't have 5 minutes to answer that question."' It all pretty much boils down to the vBulletin-based official forums (or what is left of them) and the fact that BBCode support for them is either broken or disabled (it was disabled in response to a cross-site scripting vulnerability, but why it remains off is an open question). While there are some workarounds, such as using GreaseMonkey to modify pages on the fly, those few users who use the official forums since the forums' fangs were pulled, find the issue vexatious.
Second Life Machinimists crusade to fix joystick flycam
Aren Mandala, a Second Life resident into Machinima, has discovered a serious bug that could affect many filmmakers. Joystick flycam is a tool that allows residents to hook up a joystick, specifically a 3dConnexion SpaceNavigator, and detach their camera to fly around. According to his Jira entry, joystick flycam breaks when SL is in fullscreen mode. The flycam is currently in the Debug menu, meaning it is not a Linden Lab-supported feature. The functionality of it makes it an integral part of the SL Machinimist's toolkit, though. Residents have already taken their concerns to the official Machinima mailing list. To weigh in on this issue, please visit the issue's Jira page.[Thanks, Katherine!]
