Results of Developer Q&A Meeting

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codeLast Sunday was the first online developers Q&A session, and a summary of the event is now available. They covered a *lot* of ground in only one hour.

Campbell Barton wrote:

Hi, think the meeting went well, heres a summery of the topics covered over 1 hour. The agenda was:

  1. Decide if talk about 2.49 codebase or 2.5 only
  2. Talking about C codebase or Python?
  3. Mentorships
  4. New devs interests?
  5. Source code comments and documentation
  6. General questions
    1. Blender architecture and how to grasp “the big picture”
    2. Finding things in the code
    3. RNA explanation
    4. Operators explanation

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    • Davis

      Thanks for this, will make an interesting read.

    • http://digitaldraw.wordpress.com/ aws357

      Does anyone feel like a stockholder in a company ?

      #####more seriously######

      About this part :
      What is it about? Using C and Python to make Blender tick?
      Newdevs means new developpers have mostly a C and Python background?

      Does it means we are heading toward a more pythonic development?
      Making it easier for people coding Python scripts to add it to the source code if it is deemed interesting? (and potentially increasing the number of potential developpers?)

      2. Talking about C codebase or Python?

      – majority wanted C, some C/python,

      – ideasman42 and theeth agreed that:
      – C/Python is very vague and it depends very much on where developers are
      interested in working, what problems they try to solve
      – also, in 2.5, it’s not as clear cut as it used to be

      – ideasman42 asked if newdevs are more o C or python:
      – most are python/C or python with some basic C
      – one said to be C/C++

      #####less seriously######

      I vote to extend the current Director’s term of office.

    • http://albartus.com/ LOGAN

      The links section (which aren’t links) the transcript ‘link’ points to an earlier post, like the only link in the article. What’s up? :)

    • http://www.blendernation.com Bart

      @Logan: just checking to see if you were paying attention! (cough!)