[Bf-interface] Blender UI Meeting Notes - March 9 2016

[Jonathan Williamson]

Hi, here are the notes from today's meeting in irc.freenode.net <http://irc.freenode.net/> <http://irc.freenode.net/ <http://irc.freenode.net/>> #blenderui.

1) Organization
 - Module Team has been refreshed,Mike Pan, Daniel Lara, and Sebastian Koenig have agreed to join as module members: hhttp://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Doc/Process/Module_Owners/List
 - Currently many Design Tasks are inactive; need more decision and action, less discussion. Also many design tasks suffer from too vague/large scope.
 — Old and inactive Design Tasks with no clear decision or action will be archived. Can be re-opened if needed.
 — If task is 3+ months old with no activity it may be closed
 - Quick Hacks thread on Blender Artists could use some vetting by UI Module Members, adding good issues as Design Tasks

2) Current projects
 - New Simple Keymap is in progress by Jonathan Williamson. Will try and finalize towards end of April, at which time will work with module owners/members to help review. Goal is 2.8 inclusion
 - Widgets are actively being worked on by Julian Eisel. 
 — Goal is merge back-end for 2.7x, then full-on widgets in 2.8
 — Designs still needed for many widgets, Pawél will work with Julian on designs.
 - Julian would like to revisit Stick Keys, particularly for Pie Menus. Still running into technical roadblocks
 - Some UI re-organiation is ongoing for menus, such as T46853 <https://developer.blender.org/T46853>, agreed in meeting to hold these kind of changes for 2.8, preventing conflicts with docs and tutorials
 — any UI changes that break docs/tuts/manuals get held until 2.8

3) Other Projects
 - GUI Redesign tasks are ideal for 2.8, but still quite vague. Nothing in particular to report
 - We would like to be more inviting to new UI devs; Campbell suggests maintaining list of Quick Hacks that are ideal for new devs: https://developer.blender.org/project/profile/34/

Next UI meeting will take place after the main dev meeting on March 27th: https://blendercoders.xyz

Cheers!
Jonathan Williamson
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