[Bf-committers] Blender IRC meeting

Ton Roosendaal ton at blender.org
Sun Apr 3 20:22:59 CEST 2011


Hi all,

There's two add-ons candidate to be included for 2.47 (bevel,  
looptools).
Campbell would check on it, if that fits well we better have it in RC2  
though. Will wait for his advice before calling the next build.

-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 3 Apr, 2011, at 18:33, Ton Roosendaal wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> 1) 2.57
>
> - Startup.blend changes: discussed were two defaults:
>
> Continuous grab: disable as default factory setting. Reasoning: it's
> jerky on slow redraws, on fast mouse moves it's losing offset, on
> small areas annoying, on headers annoying too (move up or down).
> People who like it or already use if have in their startup anyway, but
> the regular bugreports about it show it's not a good default.
>
> Open Image thumbnails for image browse: currently still disabled. It
> will crash Blender on any corrupt file in a directory, without
> feedback what's wrong. Andrea would like to see it default though,
> several bugs have been fixed here and it's more stable than in 2.56.
>
> - Startup issue: when we move to 2.57, the startup.blend, scripts and
> other config files are not read. Users have to manually copy it
> over... can we find a nice way to help migrating it? For example
> option in the splash to allow this...
>
> - Meeting agreed on doing another RC (2). We can do final release
> within a week then. Ton will send builders official request later  
> today.
>
> - Jens Verwiebe is also available for OSX test builds, to assist  
> Damien.
>
>
> 2) other projects
>
> - The new buildbot progresses well, for Linux it now even builds
> binaries similar to releases. Brecht will help getting a system in
> Blender Institute to make builds.
> http://builder.blender.org/
>
> 3) GSoC
>
> Students can still apply until friday April 8, 1900 UTC. Don't wait
> too long!
>
> -Ton-
>
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