[Bf-committers] Blender developer meeting notes, March 23, 2013

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

I forgot to paste in this note from Campbell, who went to bed in time once!

- 2.71: we move to Python 3.4x - Includes important bug fixings effecting blender users. Platform maintainers please update this for your platforms!

-Ton-

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Ton Roosendaal  -  ton at blender.org   -   www.blender.org
Chairman Blender Foundation - Producer Blender Institute
Entrepotdok 57A  -  1018AD Amsterdam  -  The Netherlands



On 23 Mar, 2014, at 17:35, Ton Roosendaal wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Here are the notes from today's meeting in irc.freenode.net #blendercoders.
> 
> 1) 2.70 release review
> 
> - Last week 2.70 got released! Kudos for everyone who helped making it possible.
> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.70
> 
> - Sergey Sharybin found already five commits/fixes he considers to be important enough to add in an update release. Bug tracker reports now also keep streaming in.
> 
> - As usual - testing is our weakest point, even when we do many Release Candidates. Best feedback we get is on actual releases...
> 
> - Two proposals: 1) do an 'a' release in a few weeks. 2) do a real 2.71 in 3-4 weeks, without or with minimal new features. Next week the topic will come back.
> 
> 2) 2.71 development targets
> 
> - Meeting spent some time on filling in the targets and target candidates:
> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Doc/Projects
> 
> - Once we decide on an 'a' release (or not), the planning for 2.71 will be defined.
> 
> - Lukas Toenne: Compositor code cleaning was reviewed and approved by maintainers.
> https://developer.blender.org/D309
> 
> - Then a lot of time was spent on reviewing the status of supporting Windows XP, also related to moving from VC2008 to VC2013 compiler.
> Decision was to have the Windows platform maintainers together define a proposal.
> 
> 3) Other projects
> 
> - Google Summer of Code submission deadline was last friday. Aspiring mentors now review the proposals. As usual, by Google convention, proposals and reviews are kept private - unless a student makes it public (like in our wiki). Total submissions this year: 35.
> 
> - Amount of 'slots' will be defined by Google in 2 weeks, based on our reviews and requested amount - using a secret formula :)
> 
> Laters,
> 
> -Ton-
> 
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> Ton Roosendaal  -  ton at blender.org   -   www.blender.org
> Chairman Blender Foundation - Producer Blender Institute
> Entrepotdok 57A  -  1018AD Amsterdam  -  The Netherlands
> 
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