[Bf-committers] Blender 2.5x beta status

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

I'd go for option three (release within a week), and do another update  
end of august or early september. We will get a myriad of reports to  
handle anyway!

This version won't be advertised as final or stable.

-Ton-

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Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   ton at blender.org    www.blender.org
Blender Institute   Entrepotdok 57A  1018AD Amsterdam   The Netherlands

On 15 Jul, 2010, at 14:26, Campbell Barton wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Dan Eicher <dan at trollwerks.org>  
> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 9:36 AM, W. Scott Meador  
>> <ws_meador at yahoo.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Different topic - would love to see Blender package its libraries  
>>> on Linux
>>> the
>>> way it does for OSX.
>>
>>
>> Anything but that, just link them statically.
>
> Before release Id really like to apply RNA edits.
> At the moment I think Brecht and myself really need to finish this off
> but we're also fairly busy.
>
> Changing these will break scripts of course but animations too (if
> these rna values happen to be animated).
>
> Currently these are WIP.
> ./source/blender/makesrna/rna_cleanup/rna_booleans.txt
> ./source/blender/makesrna/rna_cleanup/rna_properties.txt
>
> Even if we finish off this list we need to apply the changes and I
> have to write a script to apply fixes to existing files.
>
> So I think its important to do this before the beta, however we have a
> lot to do before Sintel Showing on Monday, (July, 18th), and I return
> home on the 20th so will need a day or so to recover :).
>
>
> Here are some ways we could deal with this...
> 1) Try really hard to finish and apply the changes before siggraph
> (not sure we can manage this)
>
> 2) Delay Beta 2 weeks (early August?)
>
> 3) Release Beta but without these changes, include disclaimer that
> animations will need manual updating and release a second beta in 2-4
> weeks.
>  IMHO this is the most reasonable things to do, since this also gives
> us some time to fix some of the most obvious bugs that are normally
> after an update which includes many changes.
>
> 4) Release Alpha 3 (Ton disagrees but including for completeness,
> practically similar 3.)
>
> 5) Don't make any changes, postpone for 2.6??? (including for
> completeness, highly stupid IMHO)
>
> Would suggest try 1) fallback to 2/3
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