[Bf-committers] Blender developers meeting minutes - 24 August, 2014

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi all,

Here are the notes from today's meeting in irc.freenode.net #blendercoders

1) Upcoming 2.72 release

- Project overview page in wiki:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Doc/Projects

- All the planned targets have been merged, BF team works full time on the tracker! Open issues went down to 155 last week, and over 100 new reports came in the last week.

- Ton Roosendaal suggests that Blender Foundation will provide free Blender Conference tickets for all active developers* again, if the open total gets below 100 for this release! Would that work? :)
(Active dev = three or more commits to Blender release during last 12 months).

- Cycles switches to CUDA Toolkit 6.5, enables basic Volume support on GPU too.
Everyone who builds Blender, please update the dev environment. for users no action is required.

2) Google summer of code

- All students have passed the final term. However, as mentioned on our GSoC student mailing list before, most of the students didn't finish their project yet. But we're positive that things can turn out to give a result when people would stay around. 

- Please keep being involved here, also users to inspire the students to wrap it up:
http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/soc-2014-dev

- The Viewport project will get priority to become official release target with help from the core team.

3) Other projects

- Tamito Kajiyama: next steps for Freestyle & Blender NPR development have been discussed in the NPR list, feedback and inputs are very welcome! 
http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-blender-npr/2014-August/000071.html

- No news on OpenSubdiv, it will come back after the release... also awaiting OSD 3.0 release later this year.

- Gooseberry crew thinks of adding a studio-branch, to use in periods during which Blender's sources are locked for new features (BCon3-4-5). Meeting agrees that's OK, provided things (can) go straight to master after a release. Lukas Toenne will oversee and coordinate that.

Thanks,

-Ton-

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Ton Roosendaal  -  ton at blender.org   -   www.blender.org
Chairman Blender Foundation - Producer Blender Institute
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