Hi all, Here are the notes from today's meeting in irc.freenode.net #blendercoders
1) Blender 2.77 targets - Meeting agrees on Mike Erwin's proposal to upgrade Blender to OpenGL 2.1 minimal. This is an OpenGL release from 2006 and widely in use nowadays. Benefits are: having cleaner code (less exception handling), getting ready for more OpenGL upgrades, and allowing to default use newer and much faster OpenGL methods. Blender 2.77 will get a function to notify users if their system is not supporting OpenGL 2.1. For hardware it means: * NVidia Geforce FX, Geforce 6xxxx and newer (released in 2003) * AMD Radeon R600+, Radeon HD, and newer (released in 2006) * Intel HD graphics or newer (released in 2010), some older cards might still work on OS X and Linux - Blender Institute will make systems available for devs to test remotely. - Work will happen in git master - for as much as possible. The bigger commits will be reviewed first on developer.blender.org - Mike Erwin will be in the lead for this project, a lot of people offered help to be standby. Main coordination will be here and in our IRC channel. 2) Other projects - Julian Eisel proposed to add an official 2.8 branch with C99 support. Meeting agreed on moving to C99 for master instead. Brecht van Lommel will make a patch for review. - Meeting agrees to not make official 2.8 branch(es) until we're done with the OpenGL migration, and until we have a clear plan for what will happen in the branch(es) and who will work on it. Laters, -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
