[Bf-funboard] Update on proceedings

Ton Roosendaal bf-funboard@blender.org
Mon, 16 Jun 2003 20:09:42 +0200


Hi,

Great! I thought you would post this later, that's why my quick 'first  
steps' reminder... our mails came in at the same time!

-Ton-


On Monday, Jun 16, 2003, at 19:59 Europe/Amsterdam, Matt Ebb wrote:

> Hi all, time for a little progress report on how things are proceeding.
>
> Things seem to have gotten off to a good start - About 80 people have  
> signed
> up so far, which is good to see.
>
> Just to remind everyone of the scope of this list:
> * Feasible concepts for short-term implementation (< Blender 2.5)
> * Functionality as seen by the end user (technical topics like code
> rewrites/programming language choices are off-topic).
>
> Feel free to discuss other out-of-scope topics at the forums, on the  
> coders
> mailing lists or in IRC. This is not a general discussion list and  
> it's very
> important that we strictly keep to the defined scope, so we don't lose
> focus.
>
> Anyway, it looks like we've got lots of feature suggestions and ideas  
> here.
> That's great, but we've got more work to do here than just mentioning  
> what
> we'd like ;)
>
> I've taken a list of the different things that have been mentioned, as  
> well
> as Ton's ideas. If anyone else has some feasible short-term ideas (or  
> can
> find any in the tracker) then please mention them too. I'm compiling a  
> list
> of the different ideas, combined with initial issues and points that  
> need to
> be investigated and researched. When that's complete (probably  
> tomorrow?),
> I'll present it to the list and ask around for any more additional
> issues/problems that should be researched too.
>
> After that, my idea is to assign people to smaller groups to go off and
> research these features and present them all in some nice, structured,  
> form
> (some sort of proposal or research report?) that's easy for a coder to  
> look
> at and then work on. @ndy's proposal posted here
> (http://www.blender.org/ 
> modules.php?op=modload&name=phpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=
> 1662) is a good example, perhaps even more details and specifics would  
> be
> helpful too. It would be best to do things in smaller groups rather  
> than
> open each feature up to the entire list, to avoid confusion and  
> clutter and
> generating lots of talk, but no action. There should be a way for  
> anyone to
> contribute ideas to the teams doing the research though. Does anyone  
> have
> any ideas or comments on this proposal for management? In any case the
> emphasis must be on the research, investigation, and results! Not just
> chatter :)
>
> Anyway, I'll update again soon when I've got this list fully compiled.
>
> Cheers
>
> Matt
>
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