Hi, I'd go for option three (release within a week), and do another update end of august or early september. We will get a myriad of reports to handle anyway!
This version won't be advertised as final or stable. -Ton- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ton Roosendaal Blender Foundation t...@blender.org www.blender.org Blender Institute Entrepotdok 57A 1018AD Amsterdam The Netherlands On 15 Jul, 2010, at 14:26, Campbell Barton wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Dan Eicher <d...@trollwerks.org> > wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 9:36 AM, W. Scott Meador >> <ws_mea...@yahoo.com>wrote: >> >>> Different topic - would love to see Blender package its libraries >>> on Linux >>> the >>> way it does for OSX. >> >> >> Anything but that, just link them statically. > > Before release Id really like to apply RNA edits. > At the moment I think Brecht and myself really need to finish this off > but we're also fairly busy. > > Changing these will break scripts of course but animations too (if > these rna values happen to be animated). > > Currently these are WIP. > ./source/blender/makesrna/rna_cleanup/rna_booleans.txt > ./source/blender/makesrna/rna_cleanup/rna_properties.txt > > Even if we finish off this list we need to apply the changes and I > have to write a script to apply fixes to existing files. > > So I think its important to do this before the beta, however we have a > lot to do before Sintel Showing on Monday, (July, 18th), and I return > home on the 20th so will need a day or so to recover :). > > > Here are some ways we could deal with this... > 1) Try really hard to finish and apply the changes before siggraph > (not sure we can manage this) > > 2) Delay Beta 2 weeks (early August?) > > 3) Release Beta but without these changes, include disclaimer that > animations will need manual updating and release a second beta in 2-4 > weeks. > IMHO this is the most reasonable things to do, since this also gives > us some time to fix some of the most obvious bugs that are normally > after an update which includes many changes. > > 4) Release Alpha 3 (Ton disagrees but including for completeness, > practically similar 3.) > > 5) Don't make any changes, postpone for 2.6??? (including for > completeness, highly stupid IMHO) > > Would suggest try 1) fallback to 2/3 > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > Bf-committers@blender.org > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers