[Bf-committers] Blender developer meeting notes - 31 August, 2014

[Daniel Salazar - patazstudio.com]

About the Reload Trusted issue, don't forget background mode too which is
even more "invisible". You launch render and never notice anything wrong
until you see the frames

Daniel Salazar
patazstudio.com


On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Here are today's minutes from the weekly meeting in irc.freenode.net
> #blendercoders.
>
> 1) Upcoming 2.72 release
>
> - The wiki page with our planning: (no changes, in 2 weeks a first release
> build should be there)
>   http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Doc/Projects
>
> - Meeting discussed the too many open issues in tracker.
>
> - Joshua Leung has quite some animation issues (NLA, constraints) on his
> desk. Most fixes require big changes, and should not be done now - but more
> early in a release cycle. He can start work on it late October earliest due
> to other obligations.
>
> - Martijn Berger: for 2.72 there are a bunch of windows platform bugs that
> need to be resolved. Andrea Weikert offers assistance.
>
> - Jonathan Williamnson points at this UI issue that should be revised -
> for append/linking of data.
> https://developer.blender.org/T41593
> A quick fix would be to bring the "Link" checkbox back again, a more
> proper fix involves a bit of UI thinking. It was already discussed with
> Campbell, but preferably should be tackled for the release.
>
> 2) Other projects
>
> - Blender Institute (as part of Gooseberry project) agreed on assigning
> Antonis Ryakiotaks to (nearly) half time on helping Jason Wilkins with the
> Viewport branch. First goal should be clearly mapping out where we are,
> what deliverables and benefits are, and then agree on a planning for it.
>
> - Lukas Toenne still works on hairsim, first results are on Gooseberry
> blog:
>  http://gooseberry.blender.org/weekly-august-29-2014/ <- check video for
> hairsim
>
> - Bastien Montagne has "Custom Split Normals" branch ready for review,
> Campbell will check.
>
> - New Blender development fund grant: for Nicholas Bishop - to work 6
> weeks on sculpt related features.
>   The Mesh modeling / sculpting module team will check with him on the
> work target(s).
>
> - Lukas Treyer has a new DXF importer ready, is in master now.
>
> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.72/Addons#DXF_Import_Addon
>
> - Thomas Dinges likes to get feedback on splitting the caustics option:
>   https://developer.blender.org/D766
>
> 3) UI stuff
>
> - Jopnathan made a proposal for a planning and roadmap:
> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Doc/Projects/UI#Projects
>
> - Pablo Vazquez: We need to redesign the whole "Reload Trusted" workflow,
> at the moment it goes unnoticed even for power users (and devs!). Proposal
> is to make it more prominent (animation, colors?) and add an option to
> remember this setting (AKA turn on "Auto Run Python Scripts" and save user
> preferences).
>
>
> -Ton-
>
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