[Bf-committers] Blender developers meeting minutes - November 17, 2013

[Mitchell Stokes]

Just a quick clarification, is just 2.70 allowed to break compatibility, or
is the 2.7x line allowed to do this similar to 2.5x development?

--Mitchell Stokes


On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 8:31 AM, Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Here are the notes from today's meeting in irc.freenode.net#blendercoders.
>
> 1) Migration to git and Phabricator
>
> - Blender entered a new era of software development! What started with
> manual backups (1994), moved to cvs (2000), svn (2007) and now to git
> (2013). It's almost the 7 year itch :)
>
> Our online projects system also migrated, with GForge in 2003, to
> FusionForge in 2010, and now Phabricator. The Phabricator site has a lot
> better tools for organizing code work with large teams - including
> reviewing and managing feedback, research or patches.
>
> - Special thanks to the awesome work on this migration by Brecht van
> Lommel, Campbell Barton, Sergey Sharybin, Dan McGrath and Julien Rivaud.
>
> - Remaining tasks are outlined here:
>
> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Proposals/Migration_to_Git_Phabricator
>
> - Brecht will write a code.blender.org blog article about the new
> development environment, which will get link on blender.org frontpage as
> well.
>
>
> 2) 2.70 targets and scheduling
>
> - It's BCon1 still - means we're gathering ideas for the upcoming release.
>
> - Planning proposal: 2nd week of december move to BCon2, mid january
> BCon3, and release end of february.
>
> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Doc/Projects#2.7x_release_cycle
>
> - Lukas Toenne: posted a patch for EWA sampling in Compositor on the
> bf-compositor list, needs some review but this at least would partially fix
> the sampling issues we have there.
>
> - Reminder for everyone, 2.70 is allowed to break forward compatibility.
> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.5/Source/Development/Todo/Compatibility_Breaking
>
> - Brecht is working on a UI project and team announcement, will be posted
> in few days.
>
> - Meeting discussed work we could do on keymaps and how to manage defaults
> or presets. Jonathan Williamson will contact people who might be interested
> in managing the Maya and Max "defaults".
> Brecht suggested to completely remove hardcoded C keymap definitions. This
> will be investigated further.
>
> - Meeting ended discussing a lot of interesting other code projects, like
> for painting tools (GSoC), Beveling options, modeling roadmaps, Cycles,
> etc. Ton suggested to try to work this out better in the coming weeks and
> make it a proposed target for 2.70 in wiki.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Ton-
>
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> Chairman Blender Foundation - Producer Blender Institute
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>
>
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