[Bf-committers] Meeting Summary May 8th 2005

[Tom M]

Meeting Minutes May 8th

This is largely a status update

http://projects.blender.org/pipermail/bf-committers/2005-May/010682.html

---------> Render

Todo:
- OpenEXR - Kent Mein is investigating OpenEXR feasibility

--------> New Transform

Todo:
- Mirror menu - (done Ton) needs testing
- theme colors to adjust XYZ colors (Ton still todo)
- Icon and button for new PET (done Ton) needs testing

--------> 3D Manipulator Widgets

Todo:
- still looking for a 'brilliant' solution for what the hotkeys should be

--------> Softbody

-Ton needs feedback from Jens Ole Wund

Todo:
- docs & demos! - Aemilia is working on both, Ton will check and assist,
- better button naming

--------> Subsurf

- Daniel Dunbar has a few fixes that are planned to be ready by end of week
- Daniel Dunbar will do a writeup of the algorithm used in his fast subsurf code

--------> Timeline

Todo:
- Ton will do most of the suggestions made by Matt Ebb (on
bf-committers list) for enhancing usage of timeline

--------> Post-production effect: ZBlur

Todos:
- need more user Feedback but Ton will likely move it to the sequence
editor instead of renderer

--------> Python

- Joilnen will add docs for Text3D/Font
- Willian will commit script link and space handler code
- script links, space handlers and text3d all need testing
- Willian will review the python patches

--------> Texteditor

- Ricki Meyers will drop the filesave part part of the patch, then Ton
will review and commit

--------> Sceduling
- One week till bcon4 (CVS freeze) then put up testing builds, then
ten days till release
- this week restricted to solving old & scheduled issues
- Stefan Gartner has volunteered to do a LinuxPPC build if desired
- Chris Want will do an sgi prism build
- Ton will do an osx 10.2 build
- JLuc Peuriere will do a 10.3 (also run on 10.4) build
- we need the chroot file for building the linux releases
- we also need volunteers for building linux x86