Just a quick clarification, is just 2.70 allowed to break compatibility, or is the 2.7x line allowed to do this similar to 2.5x development?
--Mitchell Stokes On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 8:31 AM, Ton Roosendaal <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Here are the notes from today's meeting in irc.freenode.net#blendercoders. > > 1) Migration to git and Phabricator > > - Blender entered a new era of software development! What started with > manual backups (1994), moved to cvs (2000), svn (2007) and now to git > (2013). It's almost the 7 year itch :) > > Our online projects system also migrated, with GForge in 2003, to > FusionForge in 2010, and now Phabricator. The Phabricator site has a lot > better tools for organizing code work with large teams - including > reviewing and managing feedback, research or patches. > > - Special thanks to the awesome work on this migration by Brecht van > Lommel, Campbell Barton, Sergey Sharybin, Dan McGrath and Julien Rivaud. > > - Remaining tasks are outlined here: > > http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Proposals/Migration_to_Git_Phabricator > > - Brecht will write a code.blender.org blog article about the new > development environment, which will get link on blender.org frontpage as > well. > > > 2) 2.70 targets and scheduling > > - It's BCon1 still - means we're gathering ideas for the upcoming release. > > - Planning proposal: 2nd week of december move to BCon2, mid january > BCon3, and release end of february. > > http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Doc/Projects#2.7x_release_cycle > > - Lukas Toenne: posted a patch for EWA sampling in Compositor on the > bf-compositor list, needs some review but this at least would partially fix > the sampling issues we have there. > > - Reminder for everyone, 2.70 is allowed to break forward compatibility. > http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.5/Source/Development/Todo/Compatibility_Breaking > > - Brecht is working on a UI project and team announcement, will be posted > in few days. > > - Meeting discussed work we could do on keymaps and how to manage defaults > or presets. Jonathan Williamson will contact people who might be interested > in managing the Maya and Max "defaults". > Brecht suggested to completely remove hardcoded C keymap definitions. This > will be investigated further. > > - Meeting ended discussing a lot of interesting other code projects, like > for painting tools (GSoC), Beveling options, modeling roadmaps, Cycles, > etc. Ton suggested to try to work this out better in the coming weeks and > make it a proposed target for 2.70 in wiki. > > Thanks, > > -Ton- > > -------------------------------------------------------- > Ton Roosendaal - [email protected] - www.blender.org > Chairman Blender Foundation - Producer 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
