[Bf-committers] Blender developers meeting notes - 18 April 2016

[Thomas Dinges]

That means, that there won't be any backwards compatibility with the old 
system. Opening Blender 2.7x files containing a particle system in 
Blender 2.8x, will lose the particles info.

Am 19.04.2016 um 01:22 schrieb Nahuel Belich:
> Hi, i have a question from an informative side,
> the note:
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> "Lukas Toenne already tested removal of old particle system. He notifies everyone that a new particle/hair system would be fully incompatible."
>
> Does it means that a new particle system its not possible to add to blender? or does it means that a lot of things are going to be modified in order for the new particle system to work?
>
> Thansk
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>      El Lunes, 18 de abril, 2016 6:40:20, Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org> escribió:
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>   Hi all,
>
> Below are the meeting notes from today's meeting in irc.freenode.net #blendercoders.
> Check meeting times in your local timezone: https://blendercoders.xyz/
>
> 1) Removal/recode list for Blender 2.8
>
> - This is the proposed list of features to recode in 2.8:
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NjuEd3Dw7chJ9OyViyJn3MWQPcc6-zQM4yGFxuVFEfo/edit#gid=0
>
> - Meeting agrees with the list in general, but not on how to get started with a 2.8 branch.
> That then will be a proposal sent to this list later, and/or decided on during next meeting.
>
> - Possible strategy would be to radically cut things away, and bring it back one by
> one. How this would look for viewport opinions differ on still. It also depends on
> who does the work, and the final designs.
>
> - Campbell Barton will help coordinating the viewport project.
>
> - Lukas Toenne already tested removal of old particle system. He notifies everyone that
> a new particle/hair system would be fully incompatible.
>
> - Sergey Sharybin notes that he then also can more efficiently finish new depsgraph,
> making object updates fully thread-able from scratch (particles stop us from it)
>
> 2) Release targets for 2.78
>
> - Bastien Montagne updated the project list:
> https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Doc/Projects
>
> - As agreed on, no planning for 2.78 will be defined before a 2.8 branch is active.
>
> 3) Google summer of Code
>
> - 20 april we have to submit the final student+mentor proposals to google
> Two days later Google announces it!
>
> Regards,
>
> -Ton-
>
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