[Bf-committers] Blender developer meeting minutes - 16 sept 2012

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi all,

Here's the notes from today's meeting in irc.freenode.net #blendercoders:

1) Blender 2.64 release

- Bug tracker going down steadily now: 235 open! (was about 276 last week).

- Most of the code work in "Tomato" (used by the Mango open movie team) has now been applied to trunk. Brecht van Lommel is doing a final check on proper merge of Tile render in Cycles.

- Color management docs:
  http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.64/Color_Management

- Release log in planning
  http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.64

- Sergey Sharybin notes that we need Mingw OpenColor library build. Maybe Antonis Ryakiotakis can help?

- Sergey also updated Ceres (library used by libmv, motion tracking) which should give some speedup.

- First release candidate (RC1) build call will happen tomorrow! We're now going to be officially in BCon4 status - highest alert state before release - only essential bug fixes.


2) Other projects

- Nichols Bishop's Dyntopo is possible for 2.65 or 2.66, it depends on his available time and our planning. Sergey Sharybin is available to help, together they'll check on a 2.65 release.

- OpenShading project is on target for 2.65 release

- Alex Kuznetsov will pick up Android work in a month.

- Jason Wilkins will check with Alex on overlap/todos for his OpenGL compatibility work. He hopes to have the project ready for merge/review mid October:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Jwilkins/GSoC2012/OpenGL_Compatibility_Layer

- Aleksandr Mokhov (Bevel) & Sergej Reich (Bullet Physics) also confirm to have code merge ready in October. Sergej's current todo: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Sergof/GSoC2012/todo

Thanks,

-Ton-

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