[Soc-2005-dev] Evaluation of SOC projects for the main tree.

[Jonathan Merritt]

Hi Everyone,

I was wondering whether Chris or Ton (or others :-) could perhaps 
comment on the expected  eventual process of including successful SOC 
projects into the main Blender tree?  It is a pre-emptive question, of 
course, but several projects appear to be in positions where the 
participants may need to look forward to such issues.

It would seem likely that, by the official deadline, even the more 
successful of the projects will still reside in their own CVS branches 
in the SOC tree.  Is the plan to keep these projects in SOC, and 
maintain SOC in the long term in a similar fashion to Tuhopuu?  Will the 
more successful projects be merged into Tuhopuu first before later going 
into bf-blender?  etc...  :-)  If no decisions have been made about the 
process, is now the right time to speculate, or should we wait until 
after the official completion date?

Little mention has been made so far about the production of 
documentation, demos, and other things that would assist in evaluation 
of the projects by the wider Blender community.  Many of the SOC wiki 
pages are a really great start in this direction, but I was wondering 
what, if any, guidelines there should be for this area as the completion 
date approaches?

Thoughts, anyone? :-)

Jonathan Merritt.