[Bf-committers] Blender developers IRC meeting minutes, 3 july 2011

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi all,

Notes from today's developer meeting:

1) Blender 2.5x related

- 2.58a build in progress, still need Windows and OSX builds. (trunk  
r38019 addons r2080).
Also the official tag has to be done. Ton will remind Nathan and Jens.

- Bug tracker is nicely growing with new reports! Both Ton & Brecht  
will work there the coming week, everyone's assistance is welcome!

- Campbell produced overview of I/O status for Blender: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Ideasman42/ImportExport_TODO

- Mario (lmg) Kishalmi helps with continuous release log updates in  
our wiki, he'll update add-on changes for 2.58a this week.

- Log for 2.58a sofar:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/changelog_258a

- Thomas Dinges reminds everyone to keep track of the release checklist;
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Checklist
The proposal for a new 'BCon' status (Blender's DefCon) will need to  
be reviewed too.

2) Other projects (branches, etc)

- Two new svn commit access (bf-project) members: Keir Mierle (libmv  
updating) and Jeroen Bakker (compositor engine recode, various smaller  
fixes).

- This week "Harmony" will release official templates for developer  
agreements.
http://harmonyagreements.org/review.html
They will open up a mailing list for feedback. Ton will consult them  
to ask for the right exception/extension/upgrade clause that satisfies  
our needs.

- Campbell reviewed patch for Vertex Group modifier, needs to be  
split. An open issue still is whether it's good to accept such  
modifiers in general... or wait for recode with nodes.

- Lukas Toenne: particle system upgrade with "paged buffers" will  
break hair. Cant be solved simply at this moment. Proposal is to  
continue work on a new node based particle system (using new buffers)  
and put this next to old system. Alternative is to either find a  
developer who can help upgrade hair or who recodes hair, and/or we  
make it a sponsored (or BF paid) project. Will be investigated during  
next weeks.

- Cycles render & shading project: Brecht wrote a proposal for workflow:
http://code.blender.org/index.php/2011/07/shading-workflow-feedback/

- Cycles libraries are in svn now, makes compile much easier for  
Windows and OSX.

3) Google Summer of Code

- Only few projects merge in "staging branch' Salad. Could be better!

- Midterm evaluation is soon:
  - July 11th - Mentors and students can begin submitting mid-term  
evaluations.
  - July 15th - Mid-term evaluations deadline

- Everyone is very happy with how Sergey's tracker project progresses  
and communicates. An enlightening and inspiring example for the other  
students :)

Thanks!

-Ton-

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