Regarding the jargon, I think that is a good idea which is worth bearing in mind. In this case, ‘Update SVN Properties’ simply means that some file property changes are being made to our Subversion code repository to ensure that developers working on both Windows and Linux can edit the source code. It doesn’t have any effect on the functionality of OpenSim iself.

My comment was added on 17th June. No replies to my comment so far. I am not sure if that means no one has looked at the issue since then or if my comment was of no help. Must be hard for the developers to keep up to date on all the Mantis comments.

Just a thought on your remark “difficult even for me, as an OpenSim developer, to get a grip on everything “: There is a lot of jargon used on the commit log, but that is always true of things written by technical guys, they never document in plain english…LOL.. I have been guilty of that myself over the years. Maybe if there was a glossary of these terms avalable it would make everything clearer to the outsider and ensure amongst developers that you all mean the same thing by that jargon word. My first candidate for inclusion is “Update SVN properties” = ?

Best Regards… Bob

As usual you cast a light into the gloom, lighting a path for all of us to help us walk forward a little swifter. Thianks for that. I particularly like the new infrastructure section. I read all the commits as they occur but, as a non techie in the opensim sense, I am often lost as to there meaning. Now I understand what “Migration” is about. I had narrowed it down to about 3 possible meanings but now I know which is correct,

A couple of other things that seem to be mentioned a lot are “nhibernate” and “SVN” which have me baffled but I assume are also infrastructure. So I am hoping they turn up in your infrastructure section soon and all will become clear to me.

One infrastructure change we did notice recently was that the avatar appearance table moved for being in its own MYSQL database to being in the same MYSQL database as the other tables. We noticed that whereas the old table was being updated every time we changed clothing/body parts the new table does not. (we use MYSQL and a php web page to display the database tables on our grid so we can debug issues). Avatar appearance persistance worked perfectly for us before this change and doesnt work after the change. So we added a comment to this effect on the Mantis issue about avatar appearance persitence problem hoping the info may help the developers fix the issue.

The reason for the last paargraph is to emphasise how useful it is for non developers to be aware if the infrarstructure changes. The more people that are aware, the more pairs of eyes there are spotting possible causes of issues. So keep up the great information flow Justin it helps us all.

Regards… Bob

I just spent about 30 minutes typing a comment to this blog and then hit “say it”. The comment disappeared and unfortunately I didnt have the text saved and dont have time to rewrite right now. Could you check if “say it£ is working and I will retype it later

Thanks Bob