[Soc-2014-dev] Weekly Report #5 BGE Cleanup & Support

[Campbell Barton]

On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 9:45 AM, brita <britalmeida at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> == This Week ==
>
> ui cleanup: the goal was to start removing some unsupported options from the
> properties panel, the advantages for the user being less clutter and
> avoiding having options that do nothing, which might look like a bug to the
> user. However, after some discussion with Campbell, this goal was dropped.
> Some of the proposed changes are not easy to do implementation wise due to
> the way the interface code is designed, namely removing options from menus
> (Add Constraint and Modifier) and removing tabs. The rest of the proposed
> changes are removing specific buttons/widgets from inside the panels. I
> tested-removed one of them, but the conclusion is that this would lead to
> code clutter and layout alignment problems. For the time being, I left notes
> for future reference and for user reference too.
> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Brita/GSoC_BGE_cleanup_and_support/doc/ui
> scene graph: (unplanned) I started looking at this for a better
> understanding of a specific GE area and because there is a considerable
> number (about 5) of related open bugs. I have started documenting my current
> understandings here, but it is still not enough to address the bugs with
> parent/child relations because they also related to the BL_DataConversion
> and initialization.
> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Brita/GSoC_BGE_cleanup_and_support/doc/sg
> bugtracker: the goal was of 10 closed and it fell really short. After
> talking to some people, this seems to be normal.. Next week I'll try to
> reach the 30 closes midterm goal (currently at 20) and work out solutions
> for my current rate. I am reaching out for someone to help with the physics
> ones, and understanding a specific area to close related bugs (just not fast
> enough). I currently have 8 reports assigned to me waiting on something, so
> I might reach the goal.
>
>
> '''General Development'''
>
> scene graph cleanup ({{GitCommit|f12c182}}, {{GitCommit|00d0d96}})
> ui cleanup ({{GitCommit|f12c182}}, {{GitCommit|f80b139}})
>
> '''Fixed (Reported)'''
>
> {{BugReport|33762}} - Texture fonts not working in single and multitexture
> mode. ({{GitCommit|82313b4}})
>
> '''Fixed (Unreported)'''
>
> None
>
>
> '''Closed / Archived / Invalid'''
>
> {{BugReport|28888}} - BGE Material - Alpha Blend: Add - not respecting
> object.color alfa value
> {{BugReport|40486}} - Blender scene bug
>
>
> Total: 1 fixed, 2 closed
>
>
> == Next Week ==
>
> 10 more fixes/closed reports
> continue scene graph review
> schedule a new BGE developer meeting

To clarify - Brita was running into some details & limits of Blenders
UI code, while making straightforward UI changes may be fine as small
TODO's,
larger changes to the UI become complicated and distract from learning
& improving BGE internals.