[Bf-committers] Blender developers meeting notes - February 9, 2016

[Mike Erwin]

Missed the first few minutes of today's meeting, wanted to clarify point 1).

The migration to OpenGL 2.1 is in some sense complete. Lots of code was
updated to reflect the new 2.1 baseline. There are fewer checks for
functionality & fewer workarounds which should result in tiny speedups
throughout. And (my favorite) ARB shaders for smoke were replaced by a
*better* implementation in GLSL.

Not everything is GLSL and VBOs yet, but those are not required for GL 2.1
compliance. Still plenty to do for 2.78 :)

Mike Erwin
musician, naturalist, pixel pusher, hacker extraordinaire

On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 1:37 PM, Jonathan Williamson <jonathan at cgcookie.com>
wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> Here are the notes from today's meeting in irc.freenode.net <
> http://irc.freenode.net/> #blendercoders
>
>
> 1) Targets for 2.77
>
> - Agreed to move to BCon4; bug fix commits only now.
> - OpenGL migration from 1.4 to 2.1 is only unclear task left for 2.77
>
>
> 2) Other projects
>
> - Regarding the 2.8 development branch, suggestions made to wait until
> point of no return, only creating it once we really need it
>
> - Bastian discusses future of FBX in Blender via mailing list:
> http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-gamedev/2016-February/000583.html
>
> - Suggestions made for adding a Dev Fund banner to the Windows Installer,
> helping to bring more focus to the dev fund. JuicyFruit will
>
> - Discussions around this years GSOC came up, touching on what went wrong
> last year and how to improve the application for this year. The main point
> from Google was a better defined Ideas page
>
> - Nothing to add for 2.8 yet, planning proposals need to be written still
> for code.blender.org
>
> - Ton asks how everyone likes the new meeting schedule. Most people like
> it, although it’s a bit confusing, and some miss the weekly Sunday
> meetings. However, it's more accessible for non-Euro devs.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Jonathan
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