[Bf-committers] Blender developer IRC meeting minutes, july 31 2011

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi all,

Here's notes from today's meeting in IRC:

1) current projects and 2.59 release

- Brecht van Lommel worked on new keymap storage/definition design. Is  
close to ready, commit follows within 1-2 days from now. This is still  
main release target.

- Splitting user preferences: was 2.5 target too, but still needs a  
good design plan and enough time for execution, now a post 2.59 target.

- Proposal: next sunday meeting final 2.59 decision, release can  
follow a few days after.
(Note: several developers will be at Siggraph then. Thomas Dinges  
offers to help coordinate release, Andrea Weikert can be backup for  
Windows build).

- Make a test build! After Brecht's keymap work, this tuesday  
probably. Call follows.

- FFmpeg update: we do 2.59 with FFmpeg 0.6.3 still.

- Peter Schlaile: tests with FFmpeg 0.8 in proxy branch are going  
good, but audio seek needs work still. More info on his new sequencer  
branch is here:
http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-committers/2011-May/032152.html

- OSX team: anyone available to join Jens/Damien as platform  
maintainers for build issues, library compiles, releases and  
especially Cocoa updating?

2) Other projects

- Campbell Barton: http://clang.blenderheads.org/trunk/
   Everyone's invited to check on warnings here, it has smart code  
analysis.

- Thomas Dinges made release cycle proposal:
   http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:DingTo/ReleaseCycle-Proposal
   He will update the doc based on reviews, with nice gfx!

- Sergey Sharybin: FFmpeg 0.8 needs to be added in our svn lib  
directory for Windows/OSX
   He can do for Windows, but needs OSX help. Jens Verwiebe available?

- Howard Trickey will join the BMesh team (after successful having  
provided 6 patches already).
BMesh project needs more organization efforts... providing overview,  
summarize work, assign todos to people. Campbell volunteers to  
coordinate this, with as target to get a merge in trunk.

- Xaview Thomas started a project to get OpenColorIO in Blender:
https://github.com/thmxv/blender-ocio
Give him feedback on the mail he sent today!

- SpaceNavigator branch: the basics works fine and can go in 2.59, it  
wont break things. Nathan Letwory will discuss with Mike Erwin if  
that's possible within 1-2 days.
Further work would be to implement a "Dominant" and Non-dominant"  
event queue in Blender. Dominant handlers also define input context,  
non-dominant handlers only follow this. This is also related to work  
presented at Blender Conference last year for Multi Touch support.

3) Google summer of Code

- Joerg Mueller made a video about his sound work progress:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iahnq6m5jaA
He'll continue on adding a Speaker Object type in Blender.

- In about three weeks GSoC ends. Students should contact mentors to  
confirm whether they're on track, and reconfirm targets. Final  
requirements (what to submit to Google) will be confirmed on soc-dev  
list.

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