[Bf-committers] Blender developers meeting notes - April 13, 2014

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi all,

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

1) Blender 2.70a update release

- Still a todo: finish the log. Should be added here:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.70

- Sergey Sharybin will update the bugfix page: 
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.70/Bug_Fixes

2) Targets for 2.71

- Bastien Montagne:  FBX binary file export now works for animation!!
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Extensions:2.6/Py/Scripts/Import-Export/Autodesk_FBX

- Martijn Berger: The msvc 2013 builds for 2.70 seem to be good, let's plan having it as the official for 2.71.

- Tamito Kajiyama: a first round of patch review for Freestyle textured strokes was done. Some work is likely needed in the UI part, but this feature is a 2.71 target. Doc is coming, for now check the patch discussion:
https://developer.blender.org/D246

- Antonis Ryakiotakis and Campbell Barton work on Dynamic Topo scultping, which get a nice speedup for 2.71.

- Dalai Felinto: Cycles baking is nearly done. I would like to merge it in master by Wednesday, so people can test it in master during Easters.
https://developer.blender.org/D421

- The target list is now really final. We're officially in BCon2! Check the long list:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Doc/Projects

3) Other projects, Google Summer of Code:

- Candidate mentors: last day to review! Mail to the mentor list if you think the ranking is not representing the quality OK. Tomorrow final rankings is being defined.

- Gaia Clary: will keep working on Second Life support, but wants to step down as official Collada maintainer. Makes it an orphaned Blender feature... anyone to step in?

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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