[Bf-funboard] Please let's take a break!

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

Obviously the UI is the core of Blender, and deserves feedback and good  
design.

Nevertheless, there are only few people actually working on it, and it  
is getting totally out of control to digest the contrinutions here.
Please realize this:

-> most of the work I do is technically and enabling. I am bothering  
that it should not crash, it should have all functionality of old  
Blenders, and it should be compatible (like file reading). The code has  
to be clean, flexible, and allow other to pick up UI work much more  
easy than before.

-> what you see now is a *first* version. I spent 3 weeks now mostly  
restructuring and adding basic functionality, and only a short time was  
spent on actual design.

-> even when we release, it's the *first* step of the UI project.

-> too many cooks spoil the diner. Please allow me the credits to make  
quick decisions for issues. There are 100s of them, and waiting for  
each detail to be sorted out makes no sense. It's an itterative process.

In the past weeks I needed feedback on several issues, but the  
maillists were flooded that much that hardly anyone noticed. I mailed a  
timeline proposal that was ignored. I hesitated mailing questions for  
that reason, and that's not good either.

Currently I am mostly finishing & cleaning up stuff, testing, and try  
to get half finished parts completed (like pulldown menus). In the  
meantime, for the next 1 or 2 weeks, I'll put time in making a more  
elaborate roadmap, with agenda points for when issues are being worked  
at, and what exactly we need feedback on and research for.

For now you can help me best by limiting messages here to:
- posting worked out proposals (html doc, mockup, etc)
- giving feedback on this, or on actual requests for feedback from a  
coder or from me.

Thanks!

-Ton-

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Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation ton@blender.org  
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