Hi Sergey, > I would say if frameserver (in his current state) is still helpful for > some usages, let's keep it as is for at least a while. If it's buggy / > unstable/ unusable i would rather either completely remove it or at > least IFDEF it.
AFAIK, it works, currently. > Even if some tool could be useful for somebody, we should either deliver it > in a useful way or not try to deliver it at all. The code worked and isn't that bad IMHO. The only thing, that went wrong, was a small glitch that slipped in while upgrading the frameserver to new rendering API. The biggest problem was probably the fact, that I don't do a lot advertisement for the VSE, so noone uses Blender as a video editor. And since I stopped creating DVDs several years ago, the problem went completely unnoticed for me. > In other words it's about quality of tools, not quantity > of them. I don't think, that we had serious quality issues with the frameserver. At least, I haven't heard of any? AFAIK, we were talking of a small regression that was unnoticed? > Do not forget that blender is mainly 3d modeling/rendering > application, not a video editor, so lack of some specific for video editor > tools doesn't seem to be problem here for me. I hope you don't mind, if I disagree. Blender tries to offer a complete pipeline from start to end in a professional and fully integrated way for free. Why the end of the pipeline should be less important than the beginning I don't really understand. And, as I already tried to explain: if you want to render long videos for DVD output, I'm pretty sure, you either don't use blender for that or you'll need to use the frameserver... > Another question is -- if frameserver would be decided to be kept, who's > gonna to maintain it? Think neither me nor Campbell or Brecht would have time > to > work on frameserver, but as Thomas mentioned we still do have reports about > that > area. Certainly true, but: no one assigned a frame server bug to me (the one fixed, also wasn't assigned to me) and: I can't find any bugs in the bug tracker regarding the frameserver. > So, any volunteers? Please assign bugs in the current code to me. And: as I mentioned, if someone finds time to write a python add-on replacement, please go ahead. Regards Peter -- Peter Schlaile _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
