[Bf-committers] New members

[Campbell Barton]

Hi, David. some notes based on your mail & Joshua's

- Blender isn't using github, Blender.org "get involved" links here [0].

- Joshua mentions 2.77 release cycle, but I wouldn't worry about this,
  since useful changes can be included when it makes sense.

- The question of "where to start" has no definitive answer, we can
give suggestions but whats best depends on you too. (my own reply here
[1]).

[0]: http://www.blender.org/get-involved/developers
[1]: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Ideasman42/Reply_Id_Like_To_Develop_Blender

On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Joshua Lotfi <kernel-dev at apermund.net> wrote:
> I meant to say 2.76. Not 2.77.
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] New members
> From: "Joshua Lotfi" <kernel-dev at apermund.net>
> Date: Thu, October 08, 2015 6:12 pm
> To: "bf-blender developers" <bf-committers at blender.org>
>
> The Developer Wiki and the Maniphest on <http://developer.blender.org>
> should point you in the right direction.
> Whether you are looking for a large to-do to tackle as a group or just
> split up and try to squash bugs, it's all there I think.
> If you want to contribute your code and not just use it for your
> project, Blender is currently at the end of the release cycle for
> 2.77, so right now there's no new, big changes being committed and won't
> be until next year (after your semester?) AFAIK.
>
> Depending on what you want to do (Cycles render, Blender kernel, game
> engine, blenderplayer, UI, animation, etc etc etc)
> there's lots of things to pick from for your team. I don't think Blender
> did the 2015 edition of Summer of Code (I may be wrong), if
> that is at all relevant to the situation here.
>
> But you really might want to talk to the owner of the module you want to
> work with first before starting a big project (if you want to contribute
> that code after your project, of course).
> I'm not the one to ask for reliable info on pretty much anything else
> :), as I only started working
> on fixes/etc a few months ago aside from before just modifying small
> bits (and breaking them) on my PC just for kicks.
>
> I don't know really what your time frame is, but if your university
> (Notre Dame?) is like most in the US, isn't it a bit late
> to be starting on a fall semester project this big? :D
>
> Good Luck
>
> -Joshua Lotfi
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [Bf-committers] New members
> From: David Lewis <David.M.Lewis.166 at nd.edu>
> Date: Thu, October 08, 2015 5:40 pm
> To: bf-committers at blender.org
>
> Hi,
>
> My group and I are working on attempting to improve an open source piece
> of
> software for our cs class project this semester. We chose Blender
> because
> we've worked on 3D modelling/animation software such as Maya and wanted
> to
> be able to actually see/modify what happens behind the interface of the
> software.
>
> So, we were wondering what type of modifications we could start working
> on
> making. I saw this GitHub repo but wasn't sure if it was accurate:
> https://github.com/BSVino/Blender/blob/traditional/README.md
>
> Any feedback on what code to modify and where to start would be awesome
> and
> greatly appreciated!
>
> Thank you,
>
> -David
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- Campbell