Comments on: Follow Development Commits in Real-Time

By: Omar

Omar — Mon, 12 May 2008 14:46:41 +0000

Expect a future real-tv show about Blender development, if it goes on.
24/24h camera into the water-closets of the Blender-Instituts, pretty interesting. :)

"Ghost_Train said:
Good news:D, some of the commits are non-programmer understandable."

BECAUSE it isn't intended for non-programmer, that's it. :)

By: Techmeology

Techmeology — Sun, 11 May 2008 14:13:08 +0000

Ghost_Train: Good news:D, some of the commits are non-programmer understandable.
For example:
"Bias for irregular lamp buffers now allow minimum of 0.001.
For larger architecture environments it was proved to be necessary."

I think this is a great idea! Thank you! :D:D

By: Dion Moult

Dion Moult — Sun, 11 May 2008 12:24:53 +0000

Add to #blenderchat!

By: Chris of Chris World

Chris of Chris World — Sun, 11 May 2008 11:43:00 +0000

Knowledge on the dev side comes in June. ;)

By: panzi

panzi — Sun, 11 May 2008 11:22:26 +0000

I think listening to the blender developers mailinglist gives you better informations about what's going on. ;)

By: LukasT

LukasT — Sun, 11 May 2008 10:49:14 +0000

This is really cool. I like how Blender developers are initiative in open-source development. They really inspire me.
Cheers

By: troubled

troubled — Sun, 11 May 2008 09:42:01 +0000

Actually, I seen a really good example of why it helps to see the commit logs sometimes:

stiv * r14783 /trunk/blender/source/blender/python/api2_2x/ (7 files in 2 dirs): Initial commit for BPy Particle patch #8557 from Cedric Paille Thanks, Cedric! *** WARNING **** This is a Work In Progress *** Warning ****

Seeing something like that fly by is a pretty good example of "ok, maybe I should blindly svn update today" :)

By: samran

samran — Sun, 11 May 2008 09:01:18 +0000

Really cool , hope if have a way to know what development thinking ^_^ thanks

By: troubled

troubled — Sun, 11 May 2008 06:55:03 +0000

Hey guys, just thought I would add to that a bit. At the moment the bot can be seen in #blender as a "CIA-??" bot where ?? is some predetermined number.

Of the two channels, #blender _only_ displays commits to the trunk and tags section of the bf-blender repository, while ##blender-commits displays anything and everything. Also, the #blender channel limits the output to around 3 lines and removes whitespace with a max size of each message of around 450 characters or so, to try cut down on the spam by using bigger lines. The ##blender-commits channel is just using the defaults of max 6 lines, no whitespace clean up and I think 80 char default max per line.

One last thing about ##blender-commits is that #blender-commits was also registered and should hopefully stay setup to automatically forward you to ##blender-commits (for those with bad eyes, its ## vs. # as freenode likes to use), so there should be no worries about remember which channel it is.

I think thats about all that needs to be said. If you have any questions, feel free to poke me on freenode. Other than that, cya :)

By: Ghost_Train

Ghost_Train — Sun, 11 May 2008 05:43:10 +0000

I would love to, but since I don't know a thing about programming or development it would be like
listening to a foreign language. It's a cool idea though for those would can understand.