[Bf-committers] Blender developers meeting minutes - February 22, 2015

[Jacob Merrill]

I forgot to add to that list, Game sprite and 2.5d sprite generation tools,
for cycles and blender internal....

On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi David, checked over this list (a while back and again just now for
> recent suggestions), to see if any should be included in our wiki.
>
> But think practically none of them are very good for GSOC projects.
>
> Either they're very small/specific changes to behavior in
> functionality, which we better do as a part of regular development.
>
> Others are just big projects which more experienced devs should work on.
>
> Though I can't speak for module owners in all areas, it's disputable
> if we would even accept some of these suggestions. (don't fit well
> with Blender's existing design).
>
> An experienced GSOC student need not be limited by our suggested
> projects either,
> though its worth asking first to see if your project would be rejected
> based on functionality alone.
>
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 10:30 AM, David Fenner <d4vidfenner at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi. About GSOC, we users have made a thread with ideas and suggestions,
> not
> > as feature requests or random demands, but just to serve as a starting
> > point or somewhere that devs and students can look for ideas . In general
> > things were kept quite realistic and not too ambitious, there are some
> > interesting points there. Please take a look:
> >
> >
> http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?362702-GSOC-2015-user-ideas
> >
> > Thanks,
> > David.
> >
> >
> > 2015-02-22 12:58 GMT-03:00 Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org>:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> (Our DNS service had/has issues, websites work but might not resolve.
> Just
> >> retry then!)
> >>
> >> Here are the notes from today's meeting in irc.freenode.net
> >> #blendercoders.
> >>
> >> 1) Upcoming 2.74 release
> >>
> >> - The current project list:
> >>   http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Doc/Projects
> >>
> >> - We're still on planning and in BCon3 (wrapping up and fix only). A
> test
> >> build can be made next week.
> >>
> >> - The "Sticky keys" patch has been moved to 2.75. Julian Eisel (code)
> and
> >> Campbell Barton (review) agreed that changes in Blender's event system
> are
> >> a bit too risky now, better apply right after release.
> >>
> >> - Apparently a lot of coders like cats! So, time to challenge the
> artists
> >> out there to come up with Cat Splash for 2.74. Frequent
> code-contributors
> >> who have cats can help judging! (Contact me).
> >>
> >> 2) Other projects
> >>
> >> - Blender Foundation has sent in the application! March 2 Google
> announces
> >> which orgs participate this year.
> >> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2015
> >>
> >> - All module owners are invited to add their ideas for GSoC students on
> >> this list:
> >>
> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/GoogleSummerOfCode/2015/Ideas
> >>
> >> - Bastien Montagne has been having fun optimizing our GHash hashing
> code:
> >> https://developer.blender.org/T43766
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> -Ton-
> >>
> >> --------------------------------------------------------
> >> Ton Roosendaal  -  ton at blender.org   -   www.blender.org
> >> Chairman Blender Foundation - Producer Blender Institute
> >> Entrepotdok 57A  -  1018AD Amsterdam  -  The Netherlands
> >>
> >>
> >>
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