[Bf-committers] Sum up the long outside viewers post

[bf-committers@blender.org]

Since everyone else has jumped on the UI stuff I just want to shift 
the focus for a second. Blender's codebase is "scary" to a new 
blender coder. If you like me you can just dive in and see what 
happens but it takes months sometimes to actually be productive in 
it. 

1.Source Documentation does need some serious attention. And before 
you say "so do something about it". I am. I'm working on mapping out 
the Blender source code's function call lists. But I'm still new to 
the codebase so its going to take a while. I have a CMS account now 
and under Zap's Playground you will start to see the beginnings of my 
Code Documentation. Please feel free to jump in and make corrections 
or add to it any time you want. Treat it like a Wiki I won't mind. 
Maybe we can get some coherent documentation to lower the bar of 
entry to coders.

2. The Codebase is really fragmented. Things like transform() which 
is close to 2000 lines long are just a little insane. This is of 
course all changing thanks in no small part to Blender going open 
source. Untill the change is close to finished though you will not be 
attracting as much developer attention as say K3D would. Even a more 
obviouse Roadmap to changing to a more structured less haphazard 
hacked source would attract people as they see places they can fit 
into.