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 21st 2011, 3PM PDT at Morris^🖈 on the preview grid, ADITI.

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Agenda

Updates

Intorducing Dragon.
Second Life Server (main channel)
- "maint-server" project from LeTigre got deployed 2011-04-12
  - It contains a few minor fixes and some security patches.
    - Included is a fix for objects whose creation date was 1970. Epoch fail.
  - https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_Server/11#11.04.05.225793
BlueSteel RC Channel
- "Inventory Capabilities" project.
  - Gives inventory capabilities to the Agent DS hosts.
    - Sim capabilities support "Accept-Encoding: gzip" to provide compressed inventory responses.
      - FetchInventory2
      - FetchInventoryDescendents2
      - FetchLib2
      - FetchLibDescendents2
  - Removed some dead/unused code inventory HTTP code.
- Merged with trunk.
- https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_RC_BlueSteel/11#11.04.12.226461
LeTigre RC Channel
- Same as Trunk
- No new projects in here.
- https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_RC_LeTigre/11#11.04.05.225793
Magnum RC Channel
- Monty's "Fast Assets" project.
  - Higher asset request concurrency for downloads issued by the simulator.
    - Allows concurrent simulator asset downloads from the asset backend.
    - Greatest improvement where regions have long download queue sizes
    - Lower request latency for non-texture requests particularly
    - Textures (HTTP and UDP) mostly unchanged
  - More fair queuing behavior for non-texture assets
    - Non-texture requests are serviced in order of receipt rather than last-in-first-out.
- https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_Server/11#11.04.05.225793
- Initial Results
  - https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Server_Beta_User_Group/faster_assets_data_results

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

Server Beta User Group

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