[Bf-committers] Blender developers meeting minutes - February 27, 2016

[Howard Trickey]

I just wish whatever we had were as easy to write documentation *with
diagrams* in as, say, Google Docs. (I know, Google Docs doesn't have a
linking structure that would make it suitable for what we are talking about
here, but it does have reasonable diagramming and image insertion tools.) I
found it quite tedious doing this:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Source/Modeling/Bevel . But wish more
developers would spend time doing it about areas where we have to explore
design tradeoffs and algorithms. And, I suppose relevant to this
discussion, that Bevel documentation is a bit out of date now, partially
because it is annoying to make new pictures in our current wiki system.

- Howard

On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 7:14 AM Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > - @Blendify proposes to migrate developer documentation to new system
> >  (and help with the migration),
> >  https://developer.blender.org/T47563
>
> Seriously? I would rather discuss to move manual back to wiki one day.
> The manual procedure we have now scares away nearly everyone who would
> consider to help.
>
> I'd don't see evidence that Sphinx will work to get more people contribute
> to Blender docs. It's really great to see 1 or 2 people contribute there so
> much, but you cannot call it a community project...
>
> -Ton-
>
> --------------------------------------------------------
> Ton Roosendaal  -  ton at blender.org   -   www.blender.org
> Chairman Blender Foundation - Producer Blender Institute
> Entrepotdok 57A  -  1018AD Amsterdam  -  The Netherlands
>
>
>
> > On 27 Feb, 2016, at 2:26, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi, here are the notes from today's meeting in irc.freenode.net
> #blendercoders.
> >
> > 1) Upcoming release
> >
> > So far things go smooth with 2.77rc1, reminder that release notes need
> > attention still.
> >
> > - Mike Erwin will do OpenGL release notes.
> >
> >
> > 2) Current projects
> >
> > - Developers confirm that after 2.77 we should *stop* focusing
> >  on 2.7x and move attention to bigger 2.8x projects.
> >  However discussion shows we still need more concrete planning.
> >
> > - UI team will start having its own meetings,
> >  current plan is to hold after next developer meeting.
> >  Will be announced on the bf-committers mailing list.
> >
> > - UI project has _many_ open tasks with discussion and no conclusion,
> >  these tasks could use some decisions from UI design leads.
> >  (or archive if theirs no clear outcome and nobody has time for them).
> >
> >
> > 3) Other Projects
> >
> > - Kevin Dietrich has begun work on the DwarfLabs Alembic patch,
> >  plans to move development to a branch and update to support
> >  import/export based on suggested changes in review.
> >  https://developer.blender.org/D1783
> >
> > - @Blendify proposes to migrate developer documentation to new system
> >  (and help with the migration),
> >  https://developer.blender.org/T47563
> >
> >  However others in meeting prefer further discussion
> >  on mailing list before going ahead and making changes
> >  (evaluate Phabricator's Wiki for developer docs for eg).
> >
> > --
> > - Campbell
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