[Bf-committers] Developer meeting minutes May 13, 2012

[pete larabell]

The basic masking lib is in tomato already. Patch with additive +
subtractive masks discussed by Sergey and I will be ready very soon.
Still need to clarify a few things with Sergey before double edging
support works.

On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Here's the notes from today's meeting in irc.freenode.net #blendercoders:
>
> 1) Blender release review
>
> - The 2.63a update has been released last week. Documentation and release log was a bit sparse though... Ton Roosendaal reminded everyone to be more active in wikifying your work!
>
> 2) New release targets, current projects
>
> - Masking can be release target: Sergey Sharybin is almost finished, waiting for Pete Larabell's library now?
>
> - Tiles compositor branch has been successfully reviewed, can go in this week!
>
> - Mike Erwins tablet work is nearly done (for real now!), can get in too. Main features are:
> * Multi-window pressure loss fixed!
> * Ink blot fixed!
> * Finer-grained pressure/tilt sensitivity
> * Smoother strokes
> * Eraser actually erases gpencil strokes
>
> - Motion tracking: Keir Meirle will work on planar tracking (pretty far along), masked trackers (not started yet), reconstruction with Ceres (new solver).
>
> - Brecht van Lommel's Cycles targets: performance improvements, some new nodes, AMD OpenCL support (with limited kernel), motion blur.
>
> - Ton proposes to release in 7 weeks, he'll update the project page in wiki a.s.a.p. with a proposal for BCON dates.
>
> 3) Other projects
>
> How are the future release targets? Mentioned was Freestyle, Nurbana, Unlimited clay, ... people are welcome to report on their branches and possible mergers!
>
> 4) Google Summer of Code
>
> - Tom Musgrove will make a code.blender.org blog article to introduce all projects
>
> - 21st May GSoC starts!
>
> - First target for students then is to cleanup proposal and get the design approved.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Ton-
>
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