[Bf-committers] Blender Foundation Development Team report week 42 + Meeting notes Sunday October 24th, 2010

[Nathan Letwory]

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Hi,

Yet another week has gone by with lots of activity. Janne worked on
sequencer and render related bugs, closing 10 of them. Current fixes are
mainly bandage, as sequencer would need recode to use the jobs system
properly to function properly.

Campbell fixed snapping pose bones and did a number of fixes on rotation
related code. He also managed to do a workaround crash on startup when
using ATi open source drivers. Blenderplayer builds again when using
CMake. Cleaning and using stricter compiler warnings (and some of them
now trigger errors instead) have been done.

Nathan worked on Windows GHOST related issues, fixing modifier key bugs
and investigated event system related bugs, specific to Windows. He
moved COLLADA related bugs to wiki todo list, and asks for help from
interested developers, to work on the issues and send in patches.

For numbers and pictures about progress, see end of this message.

I'll add now the meeting notes for this Sunday to conclude this update:

#blendercoders, 20101024

NOTE1: BConf schedule
http://www.blender.org/community/blender-conference/schedule/

NOTE2: .nl daylight saving ends Saturday night, so next week's meeting
is at a different time than for those areas that use daylight saving
(15:00 UTC).

1) Blender 2.5 progress + 2.55 beta release
  * Help with COLLADA needed:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.5/Source/Development/Todo/Simple_Todos#COLLADA
. Contact Nathan Letwory (jesterKing)
  * Monday/Tuesday finalize release logs (with in-memoriam for zoyd) +
get in splash. Target AHOY call tuesday evening.
  * New committer Dougal Hammond; working on Python scripts.

2) Current projects
  * Freestyle updated itself with latest trunk
  * Particles branch: phonybone tries to get some cool stuff for bconf

3) Other topics
  * grafixsuz proposes developer sprint to make Durian sims (cloth,
hair) production ready; probably after 2.5 stable release.
     - developer meeting (maybe IRC) with Daniel, Janne, Brecht and
Campbell needed before this can be decided further (usability review &
design).
  * Blender Proceedings proposal on bf-docboard, Ton will mail
bf-committers separately (but here is link
http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-docboard/2010-October/003568.html
for impatient readers)

That's all folks!

/Nathan

Campbell:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Ideasman42#Week_8_.28Oct_18th.2C_2010.29
Janne: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Jhk#Week_8_.2818.10_-_22.10.29
Nathan:
http://www.letworyinteractive.com/b/2010/10/blender-foundation-status-update-week-42/

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Nathan Letwory
Blender Foundation | Letwory Interactive
http://www.blender.org | http://www.letworyinteractive.com
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