Will 2.57 have a stable API?
On 13/03/2011 1:42, Ton Roosendaal wrote: > Hi all, > > Here's my ideas on the current plans and roadmap: > > - 2.5x > We are currently preparing the first official (non-beta) 2.5x release, > numbered as 2.57. This might be released early April. Work will then > continue 2 months on wrapping up the crucial 2.5 targets, resulting in > a May/June final release (2.58). > > - New development: 2.6x > In April/May we can review with all branch/patch developers status of > their work, and make a migration schedule for all new features. This > includes projects like GI rendering (Sintel), new Mesh editing, paint/ > sculpt improvements, Rigid Body Physics, new Curve/Nurbs system. > Combining this with a redesign of shader/light system, Open CL > compositing, a possible VFX based Open Movie, and all the new Google > Summer code projects... it'll become a massive amount of upgrades again. > > Proposal is to do this in a series of small steps; with stablest > branches first. We can call it the "2.6 series" resulting in a number > of releases named 2.60, 2.61, 2.62 and so on. Each release will be > mostly stable, but include new functionality to be tested as well. UI > and general design specifications for Blender will remain on 2.5 > compatible level. > > A related target or Blender remains to keep improving apis or modules, > to enable larger groups of developers to work in parallel on projects. > > - Long-long term > We should keep doing these upgrades for as long as needed, and - > similar to during the 2.4 period - separate out the really big issues > to solve in a bigger project again, like a Blender 3.0 project, which > could be something for 2015 or later even! > > We've been in some kind of "freeze" long enough now. Let's have fun > for a while, and then try to fix it all up again :) > > -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 > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
