[Bf-committers] BMesh: preparing for merge (proposal)

[Campbell Barton]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Howard Trickey
<howard.trickey at gmail.com> wrote:
> Great plan, Campbell, let's do it!
>
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 11:19 PM, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi, heres my proposal on merging bmesh with trunk.
>>
>> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Ideasman42/BMeshMergeProposal
>>
>> I'd appreciate it if Geoffrey Bantle, Joseph Eagar and Howard Trickey
>> could go over this to see if its an acceptable way to divide and
>> conquer the remaining bmesh bugs/todo's.
>>
>> Could you add you're names to areas you'd like to help on (I've put my
>> name on a few :) ), and add any major todo's you think are missing.
>>
>>
>> The page also has some questions:
>>
>> * Should we define a target for when we can get this done by (ready
>> for blender 2.64 for example) ?.
>>
>
> Maybe we need to start executing the plan a bit and judge the rate of
> progress before this can really be nailed down.  At the current rate of
> progress I would have said that we were 4-6 months away, but recent
> signs show the pace may be increasing.
>
>
>>
>> * Would it be helpful to have a bug tracker especially for BMesh
>> branch while we work on it, currently with the Wiki Todo its not easy
>> to attach files to issues, assign someone to work on it or have any
>> discussion with the person who reported it.
>>
>
> Yes! Please, let's switch to using bug tracker, for all the reasons you
> just stated. And also so that testing artists don't have to just post
> bug reports in BlenderArtists or mention them in IRC and have one
> of us move them to TODOs or something.

Added BMesh issue tracker (and one test bug I found). if its ok with
everything I think we could start moving bugs from the Todo list to
the tracker and assign them, also tag certain issues as show stoppers
(issues that prevent merging).