Sandbox Main Grid

[Marcthur Goosson]

Will there be a public sandbox when mesh goes beta on the main grid?

[Imnotgoing Sideways]

Look at Help >> About where ever you usually go.  Check to see if the sim is running on a Magnum RC server.  From what I hear, those sims will be first in line for main grid rollout of Mesh.  They're already running Havok 2010. ()

 

 

[Nalates Urriah]

ImNotGoing Sideways is probably right.

The Mesh Team has not said how mesh will roll out. The rumor from some Office Hour meetings is the roll is a two step process. So, it will roll to the entire grid, which is not the usual process. The code rolls out but the feature is disabled. Then individual regions will have it enabled. Presumably those will be the Release Cahnnel regions.

It may be that the Mesh Prep in the Release Channel now is the typical RC roll out test for mesh. When it is working well with mesh disabled, it will then roll to the main grid, still disabled. That is the only way the rumor and basic testing plan seem to make sense to me.

Then the RC regions would have mesh enabled to test the update live. 

The problem this presents is that server versions could be the same ID in disabled and enabled regions because it is a switch. So, we may only be able to tell by looking at the UPLOAD item in the Build Menu. There is no Mesh Upload item if it is disabled.

I suspect it will be announced and we are very likely to hear first in the Office Hour meeting.

[bodzette Coignet]

From the looks of this, it's also RC Le Tigre:

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_RC_LeTigre/11#11.06.28.234198

 



11.06.28.234198

• This is the "mesh-prep 2" project. scheduled 2011-06-29
• We have taken the latest development changes from the mesh development branch and merged them in with this code. This gets us closer to releasing mesh.
  • Included are infrastructure and framework changes to support the release of mesh.
  • This release does not include any mesh functionality.