[Bf-committers] Blender developer meeting minutes August 21, 2011

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

Shaul: Currently the support will go to Jeroen Bakker (compositing)  
and Lukas Toenne (particles).
It might well take 3 months or more before we can spend on other  
projects.

Troy: I rather don't use the Development Fund to prioritize features,  
nor to start paying volunteers who work on code already. It's first  
meant to help out developers on tasks which otherwise wouldn't be  
completed (due to time/job constraints). Supporting already active  
developers with a past track record is preferred. We should also  
strive for continuity and sustainability - trying to keep people on  
board and solve essential bottlenecks.

There's no real official protocol or guideline for this in place yet.  
To me it seems the active developers themselves will submit proposals  
or propose ideas easily anyway. It's from them we like to see  
proposals, and it's for them (and the bf-blender admin board in the  
end) to decide.

-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 21 Aug, 2011, at 20:13, Shaul Kedem wrote:

>> - Ton reports Development Fund is reaching 1000/month. Will contact
>> Jeroen Bakker to discuss OpenCL compositor project completion.
>
> Hi,
> Can you list the prioritization of projects that are candidates to  
> receive
> development funds?
>
> It's obvious that such a list is a moving target, but knowing where  
> BF will
> put the money to use can put devs in the right direction,
>
> Shaul
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org>  
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Here's a summary of today's topics:
>>
>> 1) Blender 2.59 status
>>
>> - Release reports are all good, no showstoppers really, so not an 'a'
>> release needed (yet?)
>>
>> - OpenCollada compile fails on Linux Fedora.
>>
>> 2) Blender 2.60 planing
>>
>> - Release cycle proposal approved. Thomas updates the doc.
>>  http://www.blender.org/bf/blencon.jpg (summary)
>>  (Martin Poirier amendment will be added "first week of BCon1, only
>> module-owner approved fixes")
>>
>> - FFmpeg 0.8 migration will start.
>>
>> - Pepper branch: work on sound and animation system could go in,  
>> other
>> branches probably too (motion capture file import, GE animation,
>> Collada work). Proposal is to give at least a week everyone time for
>> code review, via online codereview:
>> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Doc/Tools/CodeReview
>> Brecht & Campbell will help too, especially when reviews lack next
>> sunday.
>>
>> - Peter Schlaile's branch on Sequencer Proxies approved, can go to  
>> trunk
>>
>> - Cycles render engine and Motion Tracking (tomato) is for 2.61.
>>
>> - Particle 2010 branch: approved. (Framing/looping feature hidden for
>> now).
>>
>> - Other branches? Can people who added their branches ready here
>> report if things are ready for final review?
>>
>> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.6/Source/Development/Merge_And_Integration_Plan
>>
>> - Schedule proposal for current release cycle:
>> BCon1 is now.
>> BCon2 start: 1 sept (final targets for 2.60 defined)
>> BCon3 start: 22 sept (branch mergers final)
>> BCon4 start 2 oct (testbuild, fixing only)
>> BCon5 start 9 oct (svn frozen, release a few days after)
>>
>> - Git discussion: we'll happily await a proposal, with a plan for how
>> and who will tackle the tasks, keep history and SCM browse, what
>> consequences would be for non-git experienced developers, why not Hg,
>> like that.
>>
>> 3) Other projects
>>
>> - Ton reports Development Fund is reaching 1000/month. Will contact
>> Jeroen Bakker to discuss OpenCL compositor project completion.
>>
>> - NVidia mailed as Siggraph follow-up, to support Mango project &
>> developers with high-end cards, including Tesla. With AMD/ATI an
>> appointment has been made at IBC conference Amsterdam (early
>> September). Cooperation with Intel OpenGL team will be set up too.
>>
>> 4) Google Summer of Code.
>>
>> - Official "Pencils down" is tomorrow! Best GSoC ever! Not every
>> student is finished though, but there's general interest to continue
>> after the deadline too.
>>
>> - Students who want to get their work in 2.60 can discuss it with
>> mentor how to prepare submission.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> -Ton-
>>
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>> Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   ton at blender.org    www.blender.org
>> Blender Institute   Entrepotdok 57A  1018AD Amsterdam   The  
>> Netherlands
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