[Bf-committers] Meeting Minutes July 11, 2010

[Tom M]

=Current Projects=
After feedback from artists the proposal from brecht on dropping some
features has been tabled for now.


= Google Summer of Code =

Midterm evaluations this week - both mentors and students need to fill them out.

12th-16th
Midterm evaluations are done via Melange [1]. Starting at 19:00 UTC on
12 July you will be able to submit an evaluation for your student(s).

Joerg Mueller  - GE API

http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/soc-2010-dev/2010-July/000129.html

NickSamarin - Pathfinding (Recast & Detour)

http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/soc-2010-dev/2010-July/000130.html

Mitchell Stokes - shader improvements

https://mogurijin.wordpress.com/2010/07/09/gsoc-status-report-week-7/

Leif Andersen - testing framework

http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/soc-2010-dev/2010-July/000132.html

Rohith B.V. - quad remeshing

http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/soc-2010-dev/2010-July/000133.html

Mike Erwin - fancy input devices

http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/soc-2010-dev/2010-July/000134.html

Konrad Kleine - Paint tool improvements

http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/soc-2010-dev/2010-July/000135.html

Nicholas Bishop - multires improvements

http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/soc-2010-dev/2010-July/000136.html

Joshua Leung - physics system

http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/soc-2010-dev/2010-July/000137.html

Jason WIlkins - sculpt tools

http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/soc-2010-dev/2010-July/000138.html


= 2.5 release =

Tom Musgrove advocated for sculpting being merged to head.  Decision
to be made ASAP

Tom and Leif volunteered to run the test suite and check the status.

Ton will update the blend files that need it.

slowness on some graphic cards
https://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=22771&group_id=9&atid=498

some crashes mentioned by users in forums but we need good crash
reports to fix them