ImpDev Meetups/2010-03-09

Summary
ImpDev Meetup for March 09, 2010.


 * Tho reported a bug with the user profile button layouts on non-English UIs. Armin confirmed it happens on German as well. And it's the same bug that oobscure reported in the forums.
 * It seems to be that the non-English XUI files have some left_deltas, which offset the button positions. McCabe will fix them.
 * Geneko thinks the "Copy Key" button in the user profile is too prominent for a rarely-used feature. He suggested perhaps making an icon for it instead.
 * Jacek is nearly done with a script to automatically generate the ChangeLog from Git commit messages.
 * The ChangeLog won't be manually updated or version controlled anymore, instead it will be generated at compile time.
 * Armin thinks we should make so Git will automatically strip trailing whitespace from code when we commit. A Git hook would be good for that.
 * Geneko wonders what's the best way to update his code from 1.2 to 1.3?
 * Jacek suggests that he port the changes over, using git cherry-pick.
 * Henri Beauchamp has attempted to backport the tattoo layer from Viewer 2.0, but it is somewhat buggy. Armin will push a new testing branch with it applied to Imprudence.
 * We are going to try to release 1.3 beta 2 this weekend, with the bug fixes and new features we have so far.
 * McCabe wonders (again) about an update notification system, to let users know there is a new version available, since we are having so many betas.
 * The viewer has an update system used by LL, which could be redirected to our servers. Or we could show it on the login splash screen.
 * Armin mentioned that the "Sign Up" and "Forgot Password" links on the login screen always go to SL's site, when they should go to the site of the selected grid.
 * Armin suggested contacting Mana Janus, maintainer of the Hippo Viewer, to see if she would be interested in collaborating.
 * Also, Aleric and Carlo from SLDev seem frustrated with LL lately, so they might be interested in collaborating.
 * Jacek will contact each of them.
 * McCabe has been trying out the "stepped rezzing" patch (gradually increases draw distance). He has had no problems, but wants feedback about how rezzing feels.
 * Armin thinks the timer (20 seconds) is too long, and suggests 12 seconds. Even better would be to dynamically increase draw distance based on how much is left to rez nearby.
 * Hippo viewer has a preference for the timer. We will have a debug setting for now, and later may put it in an "advanced preferences" area.
 * Lilly mentioned a memory leak she has been tracking, which seems to be in the prim backup tools.