Kitely Mentors Group meeting, 5 June 2013: summary

[Dot Macchi]

Here is a brief summary of the main points of the meeting chatlog posted elsewhere in this subforum. The summary is copied and pasted here for convenience. If anyone would like to add a summary of the marketplace discussions, that might be useful -- thanks!

Login issues
There has been a recent problem with people failing to login on the first (and sometimes multiple) attempt. This is due to the viewer timing out on responses for standard pre-setup gestures that are taking a long time to be transferred from the inventory service to the sim on first login. This happens because those get transferred to the sim during the connection phase and the query that returns them is not very optimized (standard OpenSim code, not Kitely's fault).

This isn't a problem when there aren't many items in inventories, but as some people have a lot more items now (30,000+ in some cases), the cumulative effect causes this to slow down to a level where some people time out while they login.

Kitely is working on optimizing those login queries so that the process won't time out. Once this is done people should login faster and therefore the viewer won't time out.

Read the chat log for more details.

OAR export features
Kitely has implemented (but not yet rolled out) a user-requested feature which reports on which items were filtered out during OAR exports. The report for each such item includes its name, UUID and coordinates so you'll be able to know what wasn't backed up. It also states whether the reason was because it didn't have Export perm or didn't have Copy+Transfer.

They've also finished implementing the Export flag controls (also haven't rolled this out yet) so Kitely Market test delivery items will use that logic before the Kitely Market opens.

They hope to roll out all the aforementioned improvements sometime early next week.

The chatlog includes more detailed discussion on this -- read it up to [14:04] approx.

Feedback from merchants using the Marketplace
The chatlog has a detailed question and answer session between merchants and Kitely.

[Ilan Tochner]

Thank you for the summary Dot