[Bf-committers] MacOS developers welcome!

[Chuck Ocheret]

I’d be willing to help. I do build the master branch at home on a daily basis and I have reported build and functional problems when I’ve run into them on daily use. I’ve also spent small bursts trying to learn the code internals. I’m not specifically a MacOS expert, though I do know Metal and Swift fairly well (my Objective-C is quite stale). I have last year’s top of the line MacBook Pro.

What I really had wanted to do was a port of Cycles and the rest of Blender to Metal to overcome the lost support for OpenCL and fear of OpenGL going away. But I think, given the amount of time I have, I need a little hand-holding on a few of the paradigms in the code.

Anyway, perhaps the group that has responded so far can team up a bit.

Thanks,
~chuck

Chuck Ocheret
http://www.linkedin.com/in/ocheret

> On May 28, 2019, at 7:56 AM, Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Just a reminder:
> 
> We really can use help with building, testing and development on MacOS. The platform is falling behind now. Any developer in the community out there willing to help? Contact us for onboarding tips if you're new to Blender still.
> 
> Best would be someone who likes to hangout in our channels (for example blender.chat), compiling and testing Blender often and report issues back.
> 
> BTW: The Blender Institute doesn't have a recent/fast Mac anymore since Apple took back the loan machine. Still waiting for them to come back to us...
> 
> -Ton-
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