If you have taken a look at the OpenSimulator mailing lists or IRC channels in the last 24 hours, you will have found a link towards a new ‘feature tracker‘. It works kind of like Mantis for bug tracking, but it is optimized for quick and simple feature request posting. I should however make some notes on how this works.
First, this is not a roadmap. Putting a feature up and getting a high number of votes won’t get it implemented – however a developer looking at the idea and saying ‘Hrrm, I could do this’ will. High votes and high views will make it more likely that a developer looks at your idea (and may influence priorities), but it is not binding.
Second, this replaces mantis for feature requests – our mantis install has traditionally been the place feature requests go, but a lot of developers havent wanted them there since it is officially a bug tracker only. This tracker seperates the two out and recognizes features needing different tools.
It’s a work in progress and fairly experimental (I wrote the whole thing from scratch in an afternoon), but go take a look and post your OpenSim suggestions.
Looks very promising Adam. I suppose that is the place for requesting better snapshot email handling and such should go. I suspect many will consider anything that they can do in SL and not do in OS will get submitted into Mantis, but my interpretation would be that even those would be feature requests, correct?
Mo Hax
15 May 09 at 9:32 pm
Lots of them, yeah.
I personally had no idea that snapshot email handling even worked in OpenSim (not been something I’ve tried).
Adam Frisby
16 May 09 at 12:24 pm