[Bf-committers] Blender developers meeting notes - August 2, 2015

[Campbell Barton]

Thats fine, and good common sense.

But its not great to have meeting notes, implying developers have been
in error... then expand this to 5 dot points after the fact ... which
we were supposed to have guessed from the beginning.

On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 6:40 PM, Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org> wrote:
> Hi Sergey,
>
> Thanks for the clarification. :)
>
> We should also keep doing a call for documtation help.
> Remember... the artist/user members of module teams were meant to help there too.
>
> -Ton-
>
> --------------------------------------------------------
> Ton Roosendaal  -  ton at blender.org   -   www.blender.org
> Chairman Blender Foundation - Producer Blender Institute
> Entrepotdok 57A  -  1018AD Amsterdam  -  The Netherlands
>
>
>
> On 3 Aug, 2015, at 10:34, Sergey Sharybin wrote:
>
>> Answers are inlined this time
>>
>> I was considering "making them happier", as effecting them too :)
>>> (read "user visible optimizations").
>>>
>>
>> This is to go to the release notes. See for example:
>> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.75/Cycles#Performance_Optimizations
>>
>> This statement imply that devs have been remiss in not documenting their
>>> optimizations.
>>>
>>
>> I don't see how it implies that.
>>
>> For me this is still fuzzy - can anyone point to a couple of optimizations
>>> should should have been documented but weren't?
>>
>>
>> We're not talking about optimizations not being documented , we're talking
>> about changes which affects other developers not being documented.
>>
>> Let's put it this way:
>>
>> - Optimizations which doesn't touch other developers goes to the release
>> notes page
>> - Changes in python API (which touches both users and developers) goes to
>> the release notes page
>> - Optimizations which touches other developers goes to wiki
>> - Any other changes which touches other developers goes to wiki
>> - <half_serious>When in doubts -- write documentation!</half_serious>
>>
>> Just use a common sense and make sure blender's design is easy to get into.
>>
>> --
>> With best regards, Sergey Sharybin
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- Campbell