> 6) Patch approval/rejection day proposal > > * Ton once again brought up the idea of a patch review day. To avoid > patches dragging for too long without attention from the development > team. It didn't get much feedback in this meeting though.
Big +1 from me, I have brought this up several times and think it will be really helpful. Aaron Carlisle Picture taker | Bit cruncher | Pixel pusher | Document writer | Artist Project administrator for the Blender 3D Documentation Project On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 1:13 PM, Dalai Felinto <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Here are the notes from today's 08 UTC meeting in irc.freenode.net > #blendercoders. Reminder: meetings are on Mondays now, next meeting is > 30 Oct, 9 UTC (10 CET). > > Be ware of time change due to the end of day light saving time in > Central Europe in the upcoming Sunday. > > 1) Blender 2.79 > > Still no rush. Expected in 2-3 weeks. > > 2) Blender 2.8 Planning > > We now have plans for most of the core 2.8 development: > > * 101 (no week breakdown because it is still very dependent on > design): https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.8/Source/ > Workflow/101_Roadmap > > * Assets and static overrides: > https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.8/Source/ > Assets_and_Static_Overrides/Roadmap_October_2017#Planning > > * Eevee: https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.8/Source/ > Viewport/Eevee/Roadmap-SeptDec-2017 > > * Depsgraph: https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.8/Source/ > Depsgraph/Planning-October2017#Attempt_to_organize_those_in_weeks.2Fmonth > > 3) User Interface > > * Julian Eisel will call for a meeting this week via the bf-inteface > mailinglist, likely on Wednesday. He proposes weekly UI meetings for > the next 1-2 months. > > * During the Blender Conference there will be a lot of members of the > current design team. There is a meeting room for sessions on UI, as > well as informal meetings during the conference. > > * The tasks that require help from the design team are growing and > piling up. People would likely like to see more tangible design jobs > defined and properly scheduled: > > ** Themes for 2.8 > ** Design work required for asset browser > ** Top bar final design > > 4) 2.8 Tasks > > * Ton Roosendaal raised the issue of lack of insight in todos for > other people to contribute easier. > > For now, for people willing to contribute to Blender 2.8 there are > different ways to get involved: > > ** Go over published planning documents and see which task one are > able to tackle. > ** Wait for upcoming call for help with monkey-work (depsgraph will > require help porting tools and modifiers, asset manager project will > need help tagging rna properties as overridable, ...) > ** Poke someone from the development team and ask for it. There are > still areas that are orphan (e.g., multi-window support, F12 render > for OpenGL engines, ...). > > We can improve this of course. But there is no further effort for > on-boarding in 2.8 at the moment. > > 5) Google Summer of Code > > * Ton Roosendaal attended the GSoC mentor event. He may write a write > up somewhere, meanwhile: > > "The issues we have were shared all over. Most of the orgs really > focus on easier ideas, like 'get module X, inspect how it works, write > tech doc and solve the bugs in it. In fact 'bug fix in module x' is > very acceptable. Another trick is to ask for a small thing that can > easily become bigger (if it works out). > > Basically the topic of "on-boarding" new developers was something > everyone had issues with (and had no simple answers)." > > 6) Patch approval/rejection day proposal > > * Ton once again brought up the idea of a patch review day. To avoid > patches dragging for too long without attention from the development > team. It didn't get much feedback in this meeting though. > > 7) Weekly reports > > * Bastien Montagne: > https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Mont29/ > Foundation/2017#Week_214_-_10.2F14_to_10.2F20 > > * Campbell Barton: > http://download.blender.org/ftp/ideasman42/donelist/2017. > html#week-344-october-16 > > * Clément Foucault: > https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Hypersomniac/ > Foundation/2017#Week_45:_16th_-_22nd_October > > * Dalai Felinto: > https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Dfelinto/Foundation17#Week_21_. > 28October_16th_-_20th.29 > > * Julian Eisel: > https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Julianeisel/ > whatimworkingon#Week_3_-_16_October_-_21_October > > * Sergey Sharybin: > https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Nazg-gul/ > Foundation/2017#Week_307:_16th_-_22nd_October > > Regards, > Dalai > -- > blendernetwork.org/dalai-felinto > www.dalaifelinto.com > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
