It appears that close to every page that has a UI component to it will need changes for 2.8, because of changes in shortcuts, menu paths, and shelves where things live. This is a massive amount of work and mostly pretty mechanical (though not particularly easy to automate). Is someone working on all of those changes, or do we need a big infusion of volunteers to do that?
On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 12:19 PM Brecht Van Lommel < [email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 7:45 PM Aaron Carlisle <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Some might have noticed some work has been started on documentation. > > The past couple of weeks have been busy but I am planning to spend > > a lot of time on this over my holiday break. I am just writing this so > that > > people know what is going on. > > > > Sounds great! > > We could do a call for documentation contributors at some point? Though > that will also be some work to manage. > > > > Also there are lots of bugs and patches opened for features > > that are now obsolete, when is the plan to close all these? > > > > Are you referring to documentation specific ones? You can close any that > you think are no longer relevant or will be acted upon. > > For Blender development tasks we follow the same rule, not sure when it > will all be updated. I close ones that I encounter, but some time needs to > be made to go through them all. > > Regards, > Brecht. > > > > > > Best, > > > > Aaron Carlisle > > > > On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 1:20 PM Brecht Van Lommel < > > [email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > Here are the notes from today's developer meeting. Next meeting is > > Monday, > > > 17 December 10:00 CET / 9:00 UTC. > > > > > > 1) New Features and Changes > > > > > > This week was mostly about bug triaging and fixing. By my estimate > about > > > 120 bugs were fixed this week. > > > > > > * Cycles GPU rendering now has support for NVIDIA Turing cards (RTX > 20xx > > > and similar). Note this is using CUDA still, not the raytracing > hardware > > > units at this point. > > > * Cycles OpenCL rendering on macOS is no longer supported: > > > > > > https://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-committers/2018-December/049695.html > > > * Animated values that have been modified but not keyframed now get an > > > orange button color. > > > * Render metadata now has an option to include the hostname, useful for > > > render farms. > > > * Shader node editor now includes materials settings panels, so all > > > material work can be done in one editor. > > > * Wireframe drawing got many optimizations, both for faster drawing of > > > heavy scenes and when using low end hardware. > > > * Grease Pencil has a new arc primitive tool. > > > > > > 2) Merging Branches > > > > > > The proposal is to do the following: > > > * Rename master to blender2.7 branch, blender2.8 to master. > > > * All git history is kept, since it is valuable even if it makes bisect > > > harder. > > > * "BF Blender 2.8" bugs will be moved to "BF Blender", to have a single > > > tracker. These are already quite mixed up anyway. > > > * We keep supporting blender2.7 to more or less the same (minimum) > level > > as > > > we do master now, to ensure there is a production-ready Blender version > > > being maintained. > > > * The blender2.8 branch could be deleted and blocked from being > recreated > > > on the git server? To avoid users and developers using the wrong branch > > by > > > accident. > > > > > > If any developers disagree with this, let's discuss it. Otherwise, > we'll > > do > > > the merge in the coming week or two. > > > > > > 3) Other Projects > > > > > > The developer wiki has a new theme: > > > https://wiki.blender.org > > > > > > 4) Team > > > > > > Sebastian Parborg started this week, helping with bug triaging and > > fixing. > > > Welcome! > > > > > > 5) Weekly Reports > > > > > > * Bastien: > > > > > > > > > https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Mont29/Foundation/2018#Week_273_-_12.2F01_to_12.2F07 > > > * Brecht: > > > https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Brecht/Reports/2018#December_3_-_7 > > > * Campbell: > > > > > > > > > https://download.blender.org/ftp/ideasman42/donelist/2018.html#week-303-december-3 > > > * Clément: > > > > > > > > > https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Hypersomniac/Foundation/2018#Week_100_:_3rd_-_9th_Dec > > > * Dalai: > > > > https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Dfelinto/Reports/2018#December_3_-_7 > > > * Jacques: > > > > > > > > > https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:JacquesLucke/Reports/2018#Week_12:_December_3-7 > > > * Philipp: > > > > > > > > > https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:PhilippOeser/Foundation/2018#Calendar_Week_49_.28Dec_3rd_-_Dec_7th.29 > > > * Sergey: > > > > > > > > > https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Sergey/Foundation/2018#Week_364:_3d_-_9th_December > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Bf-committers mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > > > > > > > > > -- > > Aaron Carlisle > > > > Project administrator for the Blender 3D Documentation Project > > Email: [email protected] > > Website: https://blendify.github.io > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
