Blender Developer Notes: February 22, 2015

Ton writes:

Hi all,

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

1) Upcoming 2.74 release

• The current project list.
• We’re still on planning and in BCon3 (wrapping up and fix only). A test build can be made next week.
• The “Sticky keys” patch has been moved to 2.75. Julian Eisel (code) and Campbell Barton (review) agreed that changes in Blender’s event system are a bit too risky now, better apply right after release.
• Apparently a lot of coders like cats! So, time to challenge the artists out there to come up with Cat Splash for 2.74. Frequent code-contributors who have cats can help judging! (Contact me).

2) Other projects

• Google Summer of Code: Blender Foundation has sent in the application! March 2 Google announces which orgs participate this year.
• All module owners are invited to add their ideas for GSoC students on this list.
• Bastien Montagne has been having fun optimizing our GHash hashing code.

Thanks,

-Ton-