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

[Nathan Vegdahl]

> - 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.

At some point it might make sense to separate hair from the particle
system anyway, so putting a new particle system along-side the old
system makes sense, IMO.  It's almost more of an artifact of how
Blender was developed that hair and particles are part of the same
system, rather than because it is logical.  Hair is conceptually
closer to being like a kind of geometry than it is to being like
particles, and the use-cases are very different.

--Nathan

On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org> wrote:
> 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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