[Bf-committers] Project admins and module owners update

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi everyone,

We have a consensus on technical topics, so it's time to get to work!
In order to facilitate day-to-day decisions or to approve on patches it's important to reconfirm our projects structure.

For many years we defined to work with 'admins' and 'module teams'. 
Read this if you're not familiar with it.
https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Doc/Process/Module_Owners

It was about time to update the admin team, especially to make sure work on 2.8 will go smooth.

	• Bastien Montagne
	• Brecht Van Lommel
	• Dalai Felinto
	• Campbell Barton
	• Sergey Sharybin

These are all among the most active contributors to Blender and 2.8.

Next to that, I've asked Dalai Felinto accept the role as Blender 2.8 project coordinator. 
He's now being hired by Blender Foundation to keep working full-time on Blender 2.8.
Dalai's main role is to make sure everyone's aligned and that decisions get confirmed or supported by others. Just make sure Dalai's always informed about things. We really need at least 1 person who's up to date about everything that goes on here.

Note that I'm not on this list! I've done this coordinating work back then for 2.5, but I currently have too many other jobs to handle. I'm not coding on 2.8 (sob!) and can't even find time to read the commit logs! How much I love all this 2.8 work and to be involved every day, for real work on Blender I'm just often more in the way (not available) than useful.

That's one of the reasons we spent so much time together on getting a good 2.8 doc. We now all agree on the big picture, so I can happily keep doing what keeps me occupied as Foundation chairman and Institute director; to facilitate blender.org projects, arrange funding, expand the Institute's studio (more coder jobs!) and be well connected.

For the rest; there are many established module teams or owners (like for Eevee, Cycles, Grease Pencil, UI, and so on). The project admins will work everyone to make sure this gets confirmed/refreshed and generally agreed on.

Happy coding!

-Ton-

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Ton Roosendaal  -  ton at blender.org   -   www.blender.org
Chairman Blender Foundation, Director Blender Institute
Entrepotdok 57A, 1018 AD, Amsterdam, the Netherlands