[Bf-committers] Blender developers meeting notes - 2017-10-23

[Aaron Carlisle]

> 6) Patch approval/rejection day proposal
>
> * Ton once again brought up the idea of a patch review day. To avoid
> patches dragging for too long without attention from the development
> team. It didn't get much feedback in this meeting though.

Big +1 from me, I have brought this up several times and think it will be
really helpful.

Aaron Carlisle

Picture taker | Bit cruncher | Pixel pusher | Document writer | Artist
Project administrator for the Blender 3D Documentation Project

On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 1:13 PM, Dalai Felinto <dfelinto at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Here are the notes from today's 08 UTC meeting in irc.freenode.net
> #blendercoders. Reminder: meetings are on Mondays now, next meeting is
> 30 Oct, 9 UTC (10 CET).
>
> Be ware of time change due to the end of day light saving time in
> Central Europe in the upcoming Sunday.
>
> 1) Blender 2.79
>
> Still no rush. Expected in 2-3 weeks.
>
> 2) Blender 2.8 Planning
>
> We now have plans for most of the core 2.8 development:
>
> * 101 (no week breakdown because it is still very dependent on
> design): https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.8/Source/
> Workflow/101_Roadmap
>
> * Assets and static overrides:
> https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.8/Source/
> Assets_and_Static_Overrides/Roadmap_October_2017#Planning
>
> * Eevee: https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.8/Source/
> Viewport/Eevee/Roadmap-SeptDec-2017
>
> * Depsgraph: https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.8/Source/
> Depsgraph/Planning-October2017#Attempt_to_organize_those_in_weeks.2Fmonth
>
> 3) User Interface
>
> * Julian Eisel will call for a meeting this week via the bf-inteface
> mailinglist, likely on Wednesday. He proposes weekly UI meetings for
> the next 1-2 months.
>
> * During the Blender Conference there will be a lot of members of the
> current design team. There is a meeting room for sessions on UI, as
> well as informal meetings during the conference.
>
> * The tasks that require help from the design team are growing and
> piling up. People would likely like to see more tangible design jobs
> defined and properly scheduled:
>
> ** Themes for 2.8
> ** Design work required for asset browser
> ** Top bar final design
>
> 4) 2.8 Tasks
>
> * Ton Roosendaal raised the issue of lack of insight in todos for
> other people to contribute easier.
>
> For now, for people willing to contribute to Blender 2.8 there are
> different ways to get involved:
>
> ** Go over published planning documents and see which task one are
> able to tackle.
> ** Wait for upcoming call for help with monkey-work (depsgraph will
> require help porting tools and modifiers, asset manager project will
> need help tagging rna properties as overridable, ...)
> ** Poke someone from the development team and ask for it. There are
> still areas that are orphan (e.g., multi-window support, F12 render
> for OpenGL engines, ...).
>
> We can improve this of course. But there is no further effort for
> on-boarding in 2.8 at the moment.
>
> 5) Google Summer of Code
>
> * Ton Roosendaal attended the GSoC mentor event. He may write a write
> up somewhere, meanwhile:
>
> "The issues we have were shared all over. Most of the orgs really
> focus on easier ideas, like 'get module X, inspect how it works, write
> tech doc and solve the bugs in it. In fact 'bug fix in module x' is
> very acceptable. Another trick is to ask for a small thing that can
> easily become bigger (if it works out).
>
> Basically the topic of "on-boarding" new developers was something
> everyone had issues with (and had no simple answers)."
>
> 6) Patch approval/rejection day proposal
>
> * Ton once again brought up the idea of a patch review day. To avoid
> patches dragging for too long without attention from the development
> team. It didn't get much feedback in this meeting though.
>
> 7) Weekly reports
>
> * Bastien Montagne:
> https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Mont29/
> Foundation/2017#Week_214_-_10.2F14_to_10.2F20
>
> * Campbell Barton:
> http://download.blender.org/ftp/ideasman42/donelist/2017.
> html#week-344-october-16
>
> * Clément Foucault:
> https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Hypersomniac/
> Foundation/2017#Week_45:_16th_-_22nd_October
>
> * Dalai Felinto:
> https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Dfelinto/Foundation17#Week_21_.
> 28October_16th_-_20th.29
>
> * Julian Eisel:
> https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Julianeisel/
> whatimworkingon#Week_3_-_16_October_-_21_October
>
> * Sergey Sharybin:
> https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Nazg-gul/
> Foundation/2017#Week_307:_16th_-_22nd_October
>
> Regards,
> Dalai
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