Hi all, Summary of topics discussed on today's meeting:
1) Current projects - Campbell's 'declarative UI' experiment has been discussed extensively now. Conclusion remains to stick to what we have, but stay open for (compliant) improvements that make the scripts more readable, with a visual structure more closer resembling the button layout itself. For this Campbell has code in svn now. - Campbell also proposed to officially make UTF8 a standard for name strings in Blender (but not file paths). Some code needs to be checked for it still, especially to solve string length checking (amount of bytes can be larger than amount of glyphs). Meeting is in general OK with this. 2) 2.5 - RNA names (variable names) for UI and scripts will get a better consistency, as already been worked on by Campbell, Brecht and Luca. Campbell will make wednesday a final patch & proposal, friday it can be applied (after review). - Meeting discusses briefly which GSoC projects can make it to svn now. For now, only the audio library project will be updated, since coder claims that this will fix most of the open bugs with audio. Other projects should still wait. - Also branches will need to wait. There's no wide consensus to apply the Durian render branch either; which is acceptable, since the Durian project DVD will ship with this branch's binary, to allow full re- renders. Brecht is still available to help on merging later on. - A next beta was originally scheduled end of august, that's soon... next week we should put this on agenda again. - Meeting agrees on keeping focus on getting Blender stable. As Benoit stated "Blender is quite unstable today (I would even say dramatically unstable) and it should be the top priority." :) - Ton announces that the sponsor (who paid for Matt) extended the sponsoring with sufficient funds to hire two part-timers on maintenance and bug-fixing. He's currently investigating the how and who. Within a week more news on this! 3) GSoC - It's pencils down today! Obviously students can keep working on their branches, we even hope they will keep being involved! Also, since trunk is not available for mergers, we hope the students will stay around to do this later. (Which is a good reason to not add new stuff in trunk, then everyone can keep branches in sync). - Students will get reviews from mentor team this week, which will be sent to Google. Note that good end-user and technical docs in wiki will do miracles! Thanks, -Ton- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ton Roosendaal Blender Foundation [email protected] www.blender.org Blender Institute Entrepotdok 57A 1018AD Amsterdam The Netherlands _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
