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Linden Lab open-sourced Second Life's client on January 8th, 2007. In
the 15 years since, open source contributions have led to countless
new features and bug fixes that have markedly improved the life of
our virtual world. Without open source, SL would not be as vibrant,
enduring and successful as it is today.

As part of an effort to improve and modernize our tooling and better
support the open source community, I'm happy to announce that Second
Life's source code is moving to GitHub, the world's most popular
version control hosting platform. You can find our open source
repositories in their new home at github.com/secondlife.

As the de facto home of large open source projects such as CPython
and the Linux kernel, GitHub likely needs no introduction to anyone
who works with open source software. Its features and market position
make it the best option for Second Life going forward.

Improved Developer Experience

While migrating code to GitHub is an important step towards improving
Second Life open source contributors' development experience, it is
not a complete picture. We will be making several changes to
streamline and modernize our engineering processes: 

Simpler Contributor License Agreements

A Contributor License Agreement (CLA) is a commonly used legal
contract between an individual or group and an organization accepting
contributions. This process has been modernized, adopting simpler,
more developer-friendly language and allowing contributors to sign
the contract as part of pull requests. No PDF, no fax. 

GitHub Actions CI/CD

Second Life will be moving its continuous integration and deployment
(CI/CD) from a self-hosted TeamCity instance to GitHub Actions. This
change, to be completed in 2023, will open up new possibilities for
our engineering team and the open source community:

  * Our build tooling will be more transparent, allowing OSS
    contributors to easily fork and build things like autobuild
    libraries
  * Pull requests will feature automated merge checks such as linting
    and automated testing
  * Services can be built using newer technology, such as aarch64
    servers

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A simple pipeline to test and publish autobuild.

Summary

While these changes will not impact most users, they will make
contributing to Second Life easier and allow the platform to evolve
faster. Linden Lab is a uniquely open company, holding regular
in-world user groups and allowing its residents to contribute in
meaningful ways. We are committed to this philosophy and would love
to join you in helping make our shared virtual world even better.

Do you want to contribute to Second Life? Attend one of the user
groups on our public calendar, submit an idea for a new feature, or,
of course, check out our code on GitHub!

Signal Linden
Engineer, Second Life Server

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