Things...

[sirgolan]

Things that I'm unhappy about leaving out from the first open source MV3D release:

• Trees and Grass. They got lost in a refactor (since they were a hack) and were never reimplemented correctly.
  
• The in game editor. It's dead Jim, kick it if you don't believe me. Implementation sucks anyway.
  
• More stable data storage. Not that I've had any problems with it, but glyf showed me the light (as usual).
  
• A Linuxy easy install
  
• Load balancing. Borked a while ago with some change and never updated.
  
• All your CPU are belong to simulation service. It uses as much CPU time as possible currently when it should probably calm down a bit if nothing is going on. Easy fix, but next release.
  

Things I need to get ready before said release:

• Need to set up one of the MV3D server boxes as an account/directory/asset server.
  
• Need to QA / fix bugs.
  
• Need to settle the license issue (which to use).
  
• Need to do some load testing
  

Things I'm happy with about the release:

• The authentication. Is very nice.
  
• Stability(*).
  
  >>> print float(s.Uptime())/60/60/24, "days"
  206.242458476 days
  
  
• The code cleanup. Modules make way more sense now, and everything is Twisted coding style.
  
• That the foundation / framework should now be in a stable state and ready to build more complex things on top of.
  
• Modularity / flexibility. I'm loving the new service setup.
  
• The JSON RPC over HTTP. Is pretty cool.
  
• Errors! Well, error messages. Don't know what I was thinking before (mostly it was a lack of understanding on how to properly handle errors in Twisted), but errors used to get silently ignored more often than not.
  

Things I hope to have in the next release:

• A shorter dev cycle.. 1+ years is too long between releases.
  
• More unit tests.
  
• Better logging.
  
• Eye candy.
  
• Working character generator.
  
• No more need for Ogre's "Media" folder
  
• A persistent world. It's possible now, but with no world editing tools, it is rather limited.
  
• More web interfaces. Got one on the account service now which is very basic, but really nifty.
  

Things my cat just licked:

• My printer
  
• My scanner
  
• My desk
  
• The DVD I was printing (sorry Cheryll)
  
• The paper label I was also printing
  
• The trash bag in my trash basket
  
• My monitor
  
• My laptop
  
• The VHS tape I transferred to DVD (sorry again Cheryll)
  
• The floor
  
• My other cat
  
• Himself
  
• The feather cat toy he just dragged in that is 2.5x his length
  

His favorite of the five senses is taste apparently. And I think he's giving me a hint with the toy, so better wrap this up.

(*) I'll be very sad in a few days when I shut down that MV3D server process to upgrade it.