[Bf-committers] DOF camera parameters.- Alexander

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> If you have a CVS tree of your own, you could try merging in the 
> latest Blender CVS code.  This is what the Tuhopuu people do to keep 
> up-to-date with the main BF-Blender tree.  I've done it once, with, 
> errmm... "mixed" success, to keep the Aqsis tree up-to-date with 
> Tuhopuu.
> There are instructions in the CVS manual.  Online here:
>    https://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs-1.11.16/cvs_13.html#SEC103
> Chris Want, from Tuhopuu, pointed me at those when I faced the problem 
> initially.
>
> As far as the question of feature inclusions go, here's my 2 cents:
> Basically, every GPL project has maintaners and committers, whose job 
> is to direct the course of software, and, in some cases, decide 
> against inclusions of particular code/features.  Generally, these 
> people have the roles they do because of their experience, or simply 
> because they were willing to do the work when others weren't.  In 
> general, I think it's always best to respect the opinion of these 
> people.  This is not un-democratic, because the GPL license allows 
> *anyone* to start a fork if they thought that the majority would 
> follow their lead.  However, to retain their community of developers 
> and users, the project maintainers must be sensitive to the 
> requirements.
> In this area, I think Ton has done an incredible job - certainly among 
> the best of any Open Source identity I've ever come across.  If he 
> opposes a particular feature, the first question that comes into my 
> mind is: why?  I'm sure there must be a reason; and I'm guessing Ton 
> will have a reasonable answer to that question that has the 
> community's best interests at heart.
>
Very True, But you are going to have a new problem to, When it comes 
time for it to be ported to BF that will become a new problem as the 
bases tend to change somewhat.

No matter, it a whiles off till then.