[Bf-committers] Blender irc meeting minutes, 22 april 2012

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi all,

1) Blender 2.63 Release Candidate

- Testing is in progress still, a bit more testing is always good. Campbell Barton reports that the showstoppers in BMesh were handled now.

- Release log in progress:
  http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.63

- Todo for everyone: docs, docs docs!

- Pablo Vazquez will migrate this to wiki: (with permission of author)
http://gamefromscratch.com/post/2012/04/20/Blender-BMesh-in-action%E2%80%A6-what%E2%80%99s-so-special-about-ngons-anyways.aspx

- Brecht van Lommel updates the cycles doc in wiki

- Thomas Dinges will help with the download page on blender.org, and will try to find time to move release page to blender.org as well. Brecht/Sergey are backup for this.

- Release Ahoy might happen this wednesday!

2) Other projects

- Antonis Ryakiotakis proposes to add ming64 support for building Blender, he will maintain that.

- Sergey Sharybin worked on a more advanced keying node; with better color formulas and sampling, and optional marker/tracker support for advanced gradient detection.

- Howard Trickey shows his new modifier to render wireframes:
  http://halley.cc/paste/outline-modifier-tests-1.png

- lukas Toenne did node work; frame node, node edit features (coloring)
  http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Phonybone/FrameUpgrade
  http://www.pasteall.org/31131/diff

- Ton Roosendaal mentions an urgent need for a new web team. Will do call soon. In the meantime he proposes to add a new header to the existing site, like http://thewooddesign.com/blender/samplehome/ (but with less nervous transitions :).

3) Google Summer of Code

Tomorrow students will get contacted by Google about their proposals! We then will present the names on this list and make a new exciting salad bowl or so :)

Thanks,

-Ton-

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Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   ton at blender.org    www.blender.org
Blender Institute   Entrepotdok 57A  1018AD Amsterdam   The Netherlands