[Bf-committers] Release done, next steps!

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi everyone,

Thanks for the builds! Looks like we got a good one here :)

The bug tracker is still nice low, so we can move on to the pending  
todo items. We should also try to get our patch tracker clean, to have  
compliant patches applied, and the rest at least categorized and  
shortly reviewed. We also need several im/exporters brought back still.

To me it seems current svn is already quite stable, a next release -  
provided todo got cleaned up - can definitely be out of beta then.

Short term roadmap prediction:

- March: 2.57 release (with at least a week an RC for test)
   Being our 'first' 2.5 official release, it could align with a make- 
over of blender.org!
- April/May: 2.58 as final for the 2.5 project (based on 2.57 feedback?)

In May we then can move svn to 2.60, and start merging it with at the  
urgent waiting branches;
- render branch (sintel)
- bmesh (how's it going?)
- GSoC projects, like rigid body anim

During the next months the branch devs can report here on how stable  
migrations are, to make a planning that doesn't break 2.6 immediately,  
but do this in smaller steps and releases.

I then would also like to start the recode for our shader system (in  
branch at first)
And will have to wrap up the python api, especially for UI customizing  
and render api.

Exciting times ahead,

-Ton-

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