[Bf-committers] Blender developers irc meeting, january 29 2012

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi all,

Here's the notes from today's IRC meeting:

1) Blender 2.62 planning

- We're now in "BCon3", the new features are in svn now and get fixed or finalized.
  http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Doc/Projects

- Release planning still valid, 2.62 could be out in about two-and-a-half weeks.

- Proposal: let's do a call for an official test build mid this week already. And then do a week later an official RC. 

- Sergey Sharybin mentions: FFmpeg has 0.10 release, which will get added to Blender now. He can do this for Linux and Windows, will need help from Jens Verwiebe for OS X.

- 2.62 Release log in progress:
  http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.62
  (Brecht, could you update this with Carve, Cycles, as you did so wonderfully for 2.61?)

- Remark: can Cycles get more passes, like light contribution or shadow? Brecht looks into it.

- The 2.62 Splash Committee is: Kevin Hays, Per Gantelius and Wray Bowling.


2) Other projects

- Nicholas Bishop will work on merging GSoC sculpt branch from Jason (Dev Fund supported)

- Lukas Toenne patch is ready for group nodes:
http://codereview.appspot.com/5593050/
Doc:
http://code.blender.org/index.php/2012/01/improving-node-group-interface-editing/

Thanks,

-Ton-

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