[Bf-committers] Blender developer meeting notes, May 12 2013
Ton Roosendaal
ton at blender.org
Sun May 12 17:29:29 CEST 2013
Hi all,
Here's the notes from today's meeting in irc.freenode.net #blendercoders.
1) Blender 2.67 release review
- Not many critical bugs reported yet, apart from crasher in new Mesh 3D print toolbox. Freestyle also does awesome!
- Campbell Barton has a list of fixes (10-12) he'd like to see applied in the release branch though. He'll mail that to this list for review. To be safe, we probably will release a 2.67a then. Decision can be made next meeting.
2) Next release planning and targets.
The planning proposal:
- BCon1: May 08 (define targets, get branches reviewed & ready)
- BCon2: May 26 (add branches to svn, targets are defined)
- BCon3: June 09 (testing and fixing period)
- BCon4: June 22 (provide test builds, fixing only)
- BCon5: June 30 (svn frozen, release a few days after)
Candidate targets for 2.68:
- Multi-view (stereoscopic) render and display support.
- Upgrade to OpenEXR 2.0
- Motion tracking - 'auto key'.
- Cycles Ubershader' (combining diffuse, glossy, transparent, emission, fresnel)
- Pie menus
- Rigid Body constraint editing and visualization
- 3D Viewport render for Blender Internal
- Save and load "template" blend files (like managing multiple startups)
- Freestyle:
http://www.geocities.jp/blenderyard/freestyle/svgwriter_b26/README.html
- Preserve vertex normals (for imported model renders)
- New Explode Modifier
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php?title=User:Scorpion81
- Option for Solidify to give minimal thickness
OK... we'll be busy! :)
3) Other projects
- Ton Roosendaal confirmed we should formalize roadmap for 2.7x/2.8x series. He'll write something for review asap.
- On a 'major' release step we can also accept compatibility breakage for features.
Initial list of breaking is here:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.5/Source/Development/Todo/Compatibility_Breaking
Laters,
-Ton-
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