Blender Development

Developer Meeting Notes: December 22, 2013

Bart ·

blender_logo_shinyI think the most interesting development news of this week is the possibility of the inclusion of ‘Implicit Skinning’ in Blender!

Ton Roosendaal writes:

Here’s the notes from today’s meeting in irc.freenode.net, #blendercoders:

1) 2.70 release planning

  • We’re still in BCon2 (targets defined). Here’s the projects page.
  • Sergey Sharybin’s work on threaded object updating is going to git master this week – but needs final review confirmation from Brecht still.
  • Jonathan Williamson will write down a page with UI targets for 2.70 and later.
  • William Reynish is also available to work on the tabs proposal, and tools/toolbar and other topics
  • Jonathan: contacted the original maintainer of Maya keymap (Gianmichele), he’s available for future support most likely.

2) Other projects

  • Ton Roosendaal had mail from this team. Implicit Skinning is close to a source release. We need to find someone who’s interested to help getting this in Blender.
  • Meeting further discussed the patch reviewing procedure. “Bad” patches that don’t get in (easier to code self) feel like waste of time – where it should be a useful step to become involved. Ton suggested to think about ways how to assist new developers and learning paths.
  • Campbell proposes to add RSVC, to convert SVG to PNG at build time. It is useful for icon bitmaps, to keep them outside of git.

3) Happy holidays!

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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