Our developers now have a new home for version management and bug/project tracking. Also, the first ideas for 2.70 are surfacing.
Ton Roosendaal writes:
Hi all,
Here are the notes from today's meeting in irc.freenode.net #blendercoders
1) Migration to git & phabricator
- Everything is smooth and working! Last remaining issues are here.
- We need a good doc for Windows git tortoise users. Especially how ssh keys work. Thomas Dinges volunteers to write it here.
2) Projects for 2.70
- Alexander Pinzof added his GSoC work for Laplacian deform modifier.
- Thomas Beck works on a wireframe modifier, based on Campbell Barton's mesh operator. A doc and patch will be published soon.
- Meeting discussed whether we should enable "templates" for startup, or enable having multiple startup.blends to choose from. There are simple solutions for it, but Brecht van Lommel prefers to work on something good. It's related to our asset browsing project as well. On hold for further investigation.
- Bastien Montagne works on removing last radians from UI (so UI is degrees everywhere). Note that in code, radians are the default.
Laters,
-Ton-
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Great to hear. I am optimistic the next few months will bring some nice improvements. Hopefully more in the back end... Thanks to all the devs who are volunteering their time. It is very much appreciated.
Off topic @Bart, not sure if others are having the same problems, but discus is not working properly in firefox on win 8.1 64 bit machine. It won't load. I am using chrome which seems to be allowing discus to operate. I have discus on one of my websites and have not encountered this problem myself, but from the blendernation site in firefox it doesn't seem to like to load.
Disqus f*cked up some of their cookies - if you can't comment, clear any disqus.com and blendernation.com cookies, clear your browser cache and it should work again :-/
That did the trick Bart, thanks.
Great, glad to hear it!
For what its worth; it wasn't enough to just clear Blendernation and Disqus cookies - I had to nuke very cookie in the browser. Firefox 25 on Win 7 64-bit.
The comments should be all fixed now.
Good improvements for 2.70! Hype!!
Great news to start my week!
Laplacian Deform FTW!
A wireframe modifier? I hope that's what it sounds like--an easy, one-step way to rendering wireframes over meshes.
Just for comparison, with SVN, it took me 5 hours to pull down the entire commit history of trunk into git-svn. And that was without branches and tags. Now that they have gone native Git, I can clone the entire repo, including branches and tags, in 10 minutes.
By the way, there is still one missing repo that hasn’t been converted, and that is blender-tests.
Ow, yeah! :) Laplacian deform modifier seems can give a lot more power than it's shown in the demo video. I think it can be used to better rigs' manipulation giving possibilities to create good "muscle-effects".