Viewer Roadmap

Overview

• The purpose of this wiki page is to keep residents and developers informed regarding which Second Life Viewer projects are in-progress and forthcoming.
• Please use the 'discussion' page to make constructive comments if you like.
• This list is not intended to be exhaustive, however it will cover significant projects that are in-progress or that we expect to start work on in the near future.

See Also

• User Interface Roadmap
• Render Roadmap

Projects

• This page contains projects focused on the general Viewer architecture. See above fore links to related roadmaps.

Stability

• LLViewerApp
  • Clean up initialization and argument parsing
  • Create an error handling thread for watchdog and crash handling
  • Clean up warnings
• Viewer Crash Reporting
  • Make it completely automated, scalable, and easy to use
• Viewer Memory Manager
  • Replace Smartheap with *anything* cross-platform that allows us to track memory allocations
  • Performance must remain comparable to Smartheap on Windows
  • Change client memory viewer to use profiler
• Viewer Statistics
  • Better, scalable internal viewer statistics
  • Better measure and report viewer framerate, bandwidth, etc

Optimization

• Viewer Frame Sync
  • Allow users to sync/limit the viewer framerate and/or sleep a certain amount per frame

Features

• Voice - Phase 1 Complete - Phase 2 In-Progress
  • Provide Voice Chat in Second Life
• SL Search - In-Progress
  • Improve search in Second Life