[Bf-committers] Weekly Blender developer notes - June 23, 2013

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi all,

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

1) Upcoming Blender 2.68 release status

- Bug tracker has 150 bugs... but a lot of reports are more about smaller feature fixes, no big showstoppers found yet. Brecht van Lommel and Campbell Barton will focus on bug tracker all week.

- Meeting agrees on moving to "BCon4" now (bug fix only period). We also will extend this period to two full weeks at least.

- Around thursday, a call for a first Release Candidate can happen, which should be better advertised this time (like be linked on download page).

- Call for logs!
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.68

- Campbell Barton added another feature for "Python Security". You now can mark a directory (or multiple) to default loading "Not trusted" Blender files, allowing the rest of your file system to have .blends with autorun scripts. (Still needs to be added to release log)

- Splash: As planned, we'll ask the Tube Open Movie team to provide one. Next time they can appoint new judges again who can pick from public portfolios or do a blenderartists.org contest.

2) Google Summer of Code

- GSoC kicked off last week. Reports and reviews for students work goes on here:
http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/soc-2013-dev

- Students: make sure you hook up with your mentor to have agreement on the first docs and planning!

Thanks,

-Ton-

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Ton Roosendaal  -  ton at blender.org   -   www.blender.org
Chairman Blender Foundation - Producer Blender Institute
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