ImpDev Meetups/2010-04-21

Summary
ImpDev Meetup for April 21, 2010.


 * We met on ScienceSim as part of our grid tour. There were significant bouts of chat lag, but otherwise it went smoothly.
 * We discussed the Third Party Viewer policy.
 * Linden Lab has changed the parts of the policy which seemed to place additional liability on developers. The policy is more acceptable now.
 * We decided we will resume SL support, but the primary focus from now on will continue to be OpenSim.
 * As a temporary measure, we will disable exporting textures with objects when connected to SL, to make the feature compliant (the textures' creators aren't checked currently). The feature will work the same as it does now when connected to OpenSim. In the future we may change the export feature so it can check creators and skip any content that doesn't match, but export the parts that do match.
 * We might consider listing Imprudence in the viewer directory, but will postpone deciding that until after next week.
 * We discussed plans for Imprudence 1.3 beta 3.
 * There are some issues to fix: crashes, avatar texture glitches, getting stuck at login and teleport progress screens, and more.
 * We could distribute scripts for Linux and Mac to automate the process of downloading and installing Vivox components, like on the How to Re-enable Voice Chat page. (Maybe some day we can use Mumble instead...)
 * We will aim to release beta 3 the middle of next week.
 * Jacek tried out Meta7 LightShare with a patch Armin extracted from their viewer. It seems to work okay with the corresponding OpenSim code.