[Bf-committers] Blender developer IRC meeting notes, July 24 2011

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi all,

Here's the summary of today's topics:

1) Blender 2.58 and next release

- As usual, bug tracker remains high in count... several obscure  
issues or from inexperienced users though. It's half a support system  
now too. Still, module owners should check on what's assigned!

- Daniel Salazar proposes a small default key switch: to keep Shift 
+Ctrl+S for "Save-as", and make Alt+Ctrl+S for transform option "Push/ 
Pull". Both were in use for "save as", which is unneeded.

- Main target for 2.59 is still to resolve keymap and user setting  
load/save issues.

- Timing for 2.59: If we want a Siggraph release, new code should get  
in svn this week. Next sunday review of feasibility of that.

- Python math utilities: there's a bug in the code that treats "matrix  
* vector" and "vector * matrix" the same. They mean something else  
mathematically though. Campbell added a warning in console for wrong  
usage. Final fix then will happen 13th of September.

- A discussion started on Add-On quality and reviewing process. Luca  
Bonavita mentions the add-on tracker can be used to downgrade status  
of provided scripts too. Proposal is to start meeting regular about it  
in irc, 1st sunday month.


2) Other projects & branches

- New seamless texture bake in svn, Sergey Sharybin reviewed Morten  
Mikkelsen's code. Proposal is to add a short doc online about it, for  
example on Blender code blog.

- Still needed: schedule to apply branches/patches for 2.6x series.  
Thomas Dinges volunteers to investigate it and make a proposal for how  
to manage it well. Will be combined with a proposal for more formal bi- 
monthly release cycle in general.

- Campbell Barton reviewed patch for weight modifiers, he proposes to  
move this to a branch for a short while to further complete it.

- New booleans; Sergey contacted Carve developer Tobias Sargeant, he's  
available to help fixing up some issues we've discovered.

- Icon designer; Ton checks with Jendzrych, for help and/or get his  
SVG files. We could use more designers active to help out as well.


3) Google Summer of Code

- Joerg Mueller mentions the "Pepper" branch (5 students!) doesn't  
merge in "Salad" anymore. He gave up on it now... but the other  
students should keep track of it too. Sergey offers help with solving  
conflicts.

- Sergey made a FAQ for this project:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Nazg-gul/GSoC-2011/FAQ

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