Weekly Blender Developers meeting notes – August 27, 2017
Ton Roosendaal writes:
Here are the notes from today's 14 UTC meeting in irc.freenode.net #blendercoders. Attendance was a bit low today, so it was done quick :)
1) Blender 2.79 release
- We let the mailing list discuss if there's need for a third RC.
- Release notes in progress.
2) GSoC wrap
- In two days is the hard deadline for students, August 29th 1600 UTC.
- Final reports will be linked here.
That's it!
Tomorrow will be the usual 2.8 meeting, with probably more news. Maybe it's time to do the 2.8 meeting on Sundays again? Now 2.79 and GSoC are almost done…
How do we know which GSOC projects made it to the end? The abundance of weekly reports is the only sign of a failed one?
Of the projects listed on the page linked above only Sculpting Tools by Raja Kumar Kedia seems not to have all the weekly reports, the others look in very good shape… according to the reports.
If the students don’t make it user-friendly, even if it’s completed or has these unbelievable abilities, it will fail.
Far as I’m concerned they can release an RC10 since this will be the last release of pre 2.8. It should be solid, really solid.
Agreed!
But also praise to blender devs: I find blender to be one of the more stable pieces of software I use! Which is quite amazing given its complexity and steady addition of functionality. Meanwhile many single purpose apps these days manage to frequently glitch out despite weekly “bug fix” releases. So kudos!