IRC log for #brlcad on 20090426

03:52.19 starseeker <snort> 12 hours on the tread, and it gives me one set around the tire (out of seven or eight)
03:54.32 starseeker just that one was 180k
03:57.30 starseeker if it had done the whole thing it would probably be ~1 meg
03:59.53 starseeker at a guess, 1.4 megabytes for the tire/wheel combo
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12:28.12 ``Erik *yawn*
12:48.06 brlcad *yawn*
13:09.52 ``Erik heh, jon lajoie
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13:11.02 ``Erik guess some people aren't appreciative of his work O.o :D
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14:50.07 elena hi
15:16.45 ``Erik good morning
15:23.17 ``Erik surpose you had access to a 4.3bsd system with an old BRL-CAD, via telnet or a web interface or something... what would you expect?
15:23.45 ``Erik (we're talkin' vax 11/780 tuned down to actual speed here)
15:38.55 elena @``Erik: you mentioned something about user provided information yesterday. what were you refering about?
15:46.23 ``Erik um, your proposed plan involves the uploading agent to provide information... what if they give bad information (via either malice or incompetence)
15:46.51 ``Erik "hey, here's a box! visit my website at http://spamfest.com"
15:46.54 ``Erik :)
15:48.24 ``Erik I imagine the 'MoRe' notion is more about building a community with some tools to police it than a piece of software itself... if the policing part isn't defined, you risk despotism, no?
15:51.16 elena right.
15:51.37 elena automatic spam can be caught.
15:52.02 ``Erik 99% of the time, yes, with only 1-2% false positive rate
15:52.03 ``Erik :)
15:52.08 elena manual spam will have to be reported by users.
15:52.37 elena and dealt with like with any other "bad" user
15:53.41 elena I haven't yet went into details with starseeker (my mentor), but we'll have to analyze the human resources we have for model administration.
15:54.01 elena depending on that we'll decide how open/close the submission will be.
15:54.16 elena I'd expect it to be quite open.
15:55.02 elena the "report a problem" or the rating system will take care of penalyzing bad submissions.
15:55.09 ``Erik my goal is to expose possible thought paths that may not be opened otherwise... *shrug* if I make you stop and think, I've succeeded :)
15:55.16 elena what's your oppinion about that?
15:55.32 ``Erik I kinda think your project is not really a software project, but a community project
15:56.13 ``Erik and every community will have heroes and villians... how do you find/reward/punish those?
15:57.13 elena like in any other open community. we rely on the comunity to spot them out :)
15:57.26 ``Erik the "penalizing" of bad submissions and rewarding of good submissions might need some more explicit detail
15:58.58 elena for the start, good models will get promoted.
15:59.00 ``Erik I'm a code monkey... if you don't submit, you don't exist. if you submit bad stuff, you're a piece of shit. if you submit good stuff, eventually you get nerdpoints and people listen to you... I think you're trying to build a modeler equivelant as part of your software, I'm not sure you've addressed the fundamental aspects in your proposal yet... *shrug* I could be wrong, I'm just a code monkey
15:59.01 ``Erik :)
16:01.05 ``Erik are you writing a drupal plugin, or are you building a community that use a drupal plugin? I think that's the big sticker :)
16:01.42 elena some task will need new plugins.
16:01.58 elena like model conversions.
16:02.12 elena other will use existing plugins, like for ratings.
16:02.39 elena "you're a piece of ..." might also need some more explicit detail :)
16:02.40 ``Erik of course, new communicites will need new functionality.. but I'm not asking if there needs to be new software, I'm asking what the real goal is :)
16:02.44 ``Erik communities
16:03.15 elena the real goal is to get a good repository.
16:03.25 elena so we can share models.
16:03.40 elena either good or bad. hopefully most good.
16:03.56 ``Erik I'm not sure I agree, I think the real goal would be to generate a community that is willing and able to share models
16:04.16 ``Erik a brilliant repository is useless if there is no community using it
16:05.07 ``Erik *shrug* :) my opinion, of no importance... I'll help with the coding where I can and ask the ugly questions when I feel like being "that guy", but *shrug* I did my best to not be a mentor this year so I don't have to "judge" anyone
16:05.20 ``Erik I'm just asking to get braincells firing
16:05.21 elena true. but we already have a community.
16:05.51 ``Erik BRL-CAD has a few disperate communities that don't seem to like the notion of unification or sharing.
16:06.28 elena exactly! and why's that?
16:07.02 ``Erik oh, I imagine part of that is the military nature that a significant portion of the user community (and almost all our funding) comes from
16:07.13 elena don't worry about being "that guy". "those guys" are as helpfull as the "nice guys" :)
16:07.41 elena :)
16:07.47 elena you got me there.
16:08.06 elena I can't help with that and I was thinking to another answer.
16:09.19 ``Erik While the GSOC projects may benefit the secretive military retards, I tend to push my thinking more towards the open source side... I'd like to see an efficient and usable repo out in the real world that my secret squirrel buddies can use when appropriate... but that comes back to the issue, it's about the community, not the software :)
16:10.12 ``Erik I've seen brilliant open source software languish due to lack of interest... and I persoanlyl feel that linux is pretty shitty, but it has a solid community, so it thrives :)
16:10.50 ``Erik an aspect to ponder, perhaps, or just ignore *shrug*
16:12.34 elena I'll keep that in mind.
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17:33.25 madant ha.. the action has started already :)
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20:17.50 madant howdy jdoliner , elena :)
20:21.02 elena hi.
20:25.17 madant d-lo: i shall miss you :) brlcad is my new master :D
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20:31.51 ``Erik O.O that very may well be just a little tmi
20:33.22 madant :D
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23:49.11 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r34314 10/brlcad/trunk/NEWS: haven't documented the other contributors (nick and myself) yet for the new points primitive, but go ahead and document richard's implementation of the 'l' command support so that pnts can be described.
23:55.18 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r34315 10/brlcad/trunk/NEWS:
23:55.18 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: document the addition of the point cloud primitive (pnts) by nick and myself
23:55.18 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: even though it's still not quite ready for public use just yet given a few
23:55.18 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: callbacks still need to be implemented for basic use. this was added back
23:55.18 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: during 7.12 but not documented until now due to momentum and completeness at the
23:55.21 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: time.

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