[Bf-committers] Blender developers meeting - July 6, 2014
Ton Roosendaal
ton at blender.org
Sun Jul 6 17:40:09 CEST 2014
Hi all,
Here are the notes from today's meeting in irc.freenode.net #blendercoders.
1) Projects for the 2.72 release
- Targets for the coming release:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Doc/Projects
- Meeting agrees on moving to "BCon 2" now, which means we schedule 2-3 weeks for the selected targets to be merged in the official bf-blender git master.
- Note: Blurry tooltips on windows got solved, it was an issue with fonts.
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.72/UI
- New freestyle feature, Cycles render! Tamito Kajiyama looks for testers.
http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-blender-npr/2014-July/000050.html
2) GSoC progress
- All students survived midterms.
- Meeting discussed for a while that communication is quite low in general, mentors and mentors could be more pro-active and visible as well. Suggested is to not communicate in private with students (when not needed) but do all mail exchanges about code work via our public lists.
- Also: make it a habit to commit often and regularly!
3) Other projects
- Campbell Barton and Francesco Siddi are almost done with the manual project (allowing to edit wiki locally with git checkouts).
http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-docboard/2014-July/004512.html
- Ton Roosendaal confirms that Epic Games became a big sponsor for the Development Fund. Their main interest is in getting Blender to read/write FBX better. Bastien Montagne will look at writing out a good description for a project - so we can do a call for a developer.
- Alternative: get 3DMax or Maya to read/write .blend files! This can be using Bullet's MIT licensed .blend read/write module.
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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