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=== Upcoming Stuff ===
=== Upcoming Stuff ===
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* An upcoming maint-server release has:
** SVC-6055 Avatar position reverts to original sittarget in simcrossing
** SVC-6782 ghost prim when sphere has scale_x and scale_y not equal to 1.  EDIT: this was originally planned but later removed
*** The server will no longer accept the invalid primitive params that was causing this bug so some existing content may revert back to visibility.
** SVC-6808 Muting a new-style 'Resident' avatar is ineffective when you're offline
** SVC-6859 llTeleportAgentHome on an agent not over your land shouldn't result in the _target_ getting the message
** SVC-6882 Mini-map shows multiple dots for one avatar, but avatar is not ghosted
** SVC-5880 Vehicles "Jumping" when crossing prims
*** This is caused by the physics engine reporting collision info for "hidden" faces (the vertical faces where the road objects butt up against each other).  It has existed since the very beginning of SL and affects all objects (not just vehicles) however it became particularly bad for vehicles after the physics engine upgrade to Havok4 in 2008.04.
*** To repair broken vehicles a "workaround" was introduced to reduce the effect: vehicle collision events get special scrutiny and some collision events are removed.  It helps, but is not 100% effective and also has some side effects such as causing vehicles to sometimes partially penetrate curbs, walls, and other obstacles, or even tunnel through walls for small vehicles.
*** To solve this problem correctly in Havok7 a config parameter was tweaked in the physics engine.  Also, the aforementioned workaround for vehicles has been removed, so some vehicle behavior may change.  Besides a reduction of vehicles penetrating obstacles they may also "jump" more when crossing seams that are not quite lined up right -- short obstacles may cause vehicles to jump where they used to roll smoothly.
** SVC-6900 Group-owned objects located in private estates cannot send IMs to offline avatars
** SVC-6403 llGiveInventory is not working!


=== Interesting Stuff ===
=== Interesting Stuff ===

Revision as of 15:21, 14 April 2011

This is the meeting tracking and progress page for the weekly Server BETA QA Meeting, moderated by Oskar Linden. Please contact him on AGNI for more information. You can join the Second Life Beta group for updates.

The next meeting is Thursday, April 14th 2011, 3PM PDT at Morris🖈 on the preview grid, ADITI.

Agenda

Updates

Upcoming Stuff

  • An upcoming maint-server release has:
    • SVC-6055 Avatar position reverts to original sittarget in simcrossing
    • SVC-6782 ghost prim when sphere has scale_x and scale_y not equal to 1. EDIT: this was originally planned but later removed
      • The server will no longer accept the invalid primitive params that was causing this bug so some existing content may revert back to visibility.
    • SVC-6808 Muting a new-style 'Resident' avatar is ineffective when you're offline
    • SVC-6859 llTeleportAgentHome on an agent not over your land shouldn't result in the _target_ getting the message
    • SVC-6882 Mini-map shows multiple dots for one avatar, but avatar is not ghosted
    • SVC-5880 Vehicles "Jumping" when crossing prims
      • This is caused by the physics engine reporting collision info for "hidden" faces (the vertical faces where the road objects butt up against each other). It has existed since the very beginning of SL and affects all objects (not just vehicles) however it became particularly bad for vehicles after the physics engine upgrade to Havok4 in 2008.04.
      • To repair broken vehicles a "workaround" was introduced to reduce the effect: vehicle collision events get special scrutiny and some collision events are removed. It helps, but is not 100% effective and also has some side effects such as causing vehicles to sometimes partially penetrate curbs, walls, and other obstacles, or even tunnel through walls for small vehicles.
      • To solve this problem correctly in Havok7 a config parameter was tweaked in the physics engine. Also, the aforementioned workaround for vehicles has been removed, so some vehicle behavior may change. Besides a reduction of vehicles penetrating obstacles they may also "jump" more when crossing seams that are not quite lined up right -- short obstacles may cause vehicles to jump where they used to roll smoothly.
    • SVC-6900 Group-owned objects located in private estates cannot send IMs to offline avatars
    • SVC-6403 llGiveInventory is not working!

Interesting Stuff

Any Other Items

Open Items

  • SVC-4632 - People getting past Estate and Land bans | Critical & 325 (402 as of 8/11/10) votes!
    • Dante has commented on this issue and reopened it.
  • SVC-5925 - Erratic behavior on script rezzed prims set physical
  • SVC-3044 - Debug channel and script error reporting needs a major rethink
    • related to vwr-199 and vwr-7062
    • [15:17] Roberto Salubrius: can we get that standarized pleaaaaaaaaaaaseeeeeeeeee so we can listen to the debug channel whenever there's a problem PLEAAAAAAAAAASEEEEEEE
    • [15:17] Roberto Salubrius: preeeeeeeetty pleaaseeeeee
  • svc-4196 - "Avatar entering sim or rezzing object causes sim to freeze for up to 30 seconds - everything stops for everybody there"
    • Babbage is working on it.
  • wassup with SVC-3895
  • status on SVC-3618 - estate managers unable to freeze / eject
  • status on SVC-1253 - users sitting on prims, which are set to phantom are not affected by damage. | 108 votes!
  • status on SVC-5404 - Vehicles can no longer enter a region if no-object-entry flag is set
  • What is going on with SVC-421 - Cannot delete contents from no-modify objects
  • status on SVC-5880 - Vehicles "Jumping" when crossing prims
  • SVC-5922 -Physics unset on vehicles when seated avatars goes beyond the physical 'prim' limit where agents are counted towards prims
  • SVC-6104 script sim crossing bug
  • SVC-6123 cant catch sphere type exact shape with lsl functions
  • SVC-5959- Group Notices to Email do not identify sender - SVC-5959

Minutes from Previous Meetings