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Blender developer meeting minutes, february 7, 2010

Bart ·

Last week’s developer meeting notes were still sitting in my inbox. Oops!

Ton Roosendaal writes:

Current projects

  • FFMPG was in svn still, with some of our patches. This is not needed anymore, and will get removed from svn (martin?). [FFMPG is an external library and it has been decided it should no longer be in the Blender svn – Bart]
  • For correct timed sound playback, we need to use the sound library clock and not internal timer. It’s something that needs to be added to the window manager in Blender probabably. Ton will check with Campbell and or Brecht on ideas for how to solve it, and come back to Joerg for it
  • Mitchell Stokes (moguri) gets commit rights on a branch to check on replacing Game Engine’s “moto” math code with Eigen2. [Moto and Eigen2 are both math libraries – BV]

Blender 2.5

  • Next release target list is still on the todo.
  • Tom Musgrove started a forum thread to collect all crucial missing 2.4x features.
  • Ton also likes to hear from book authors their top lists of missing features, to ensure we know the issues well.
  • Brecht noted that there were 100 bugs closed last week, and a 100 added again… so we do progress, but not enough yet. :)
  • In general, meeting thought the deadline “a beta version ready for documenting” is probably too far away, in that case we better make an alpha update, especially to provide everyone with a good updated reference binary for reporting. We decide on this next week, based on a final 2.5 beta target list.
  • Luxrender team already started on migrating to 2.5 as well. The have a couple of features to be added in Blender to make it all work. Ton mentioned work on proper extending/integrating Blender is currently anticipated to happen after the summer time. A lot is possible already now though.

Blender opportunities & new developers training

Ton mentioned this hot 2010 topic.

One of the cool things to explore now is to find ways to train new Blender developers more efficiently. This can be done via hands-on classes and online material… and much beter docs! Ideas, efforts or contributions welcome as usual.

-Ton-

Author Bart
I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Community Lead at n8n.
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