As an artist I think this is a great idea. All the developers do a great job but sometimes the artist feedback is needed to better develop tools and features that fit into the artist/production workflow.
On Tuesday, June 11, 2013, Ton Roosendaal wrote: > Hi all, > > ---- "How do I get a feature in Blender" ---- > (or, who is making Blender anyway?) > > I'm a very firm supporter of empowering people who *do*, the ones who can > get work done or who have proven to be realizing work before. > > That reflects in our "Module Owner" organization. Developers who actively > contribute to Blender are also the ones who can make decisions in that area. > Module teams currently have owners (who can work quite independently) and > team members (who need to ensure an owner is being informed and agrees with > work). > Module teams accept responsibility for bug fixing, patch and code reviews, > and help out new developers in the area. > > In practice - we're really quite awesome in this regard - the module teams > have good connections with users. However, I think we're not functioning > optimally here. With Blender growing, with more people being active, and > with all the high quality demands and requests, we should consider to > extend our Module organization now. > > My proposal is to ask each module team to invite at least one involved > user to formally join the module teams. The current owners/teams can do > this all based on their current networks, and can decide for each > individual whether it's an "owner" or "member" role. For bigger modules, > having an artist co-owner is really preferred though. > > The choice for such users-members can be simply based on the same > principle as we do for developers - based on actual achievements in the > area and shown interest to be involved. We can keep module teams > self-appointing too, owners decide themselves who's joining. Only when > needed, the 'project admins' will interfere in the process. > > The consequences of this proposal can be quite minimal - it just means you > need to get agreement on feature decisions with one more person. Better > would be if the new user-members then also actively participate in all > discussions, feature proposal reviewing, release logs and communicating > decisions when were they made. It will help developers a lot, to offload > work to others especially. :) > > I also want to emphasise that we currently informally already do this a > lot. A great example is how motion tracking was implemented with artist > Sebastian Koenig as 'owner' too. > We also already have several mailing lists with activity for areas as vfx, > cycles, python, robotics and animation. We can extend this when needed > easily. > > I know it's not democracy I propose, I really don't think voting is going > to get Blender further anytime. Getting more people involved, and having > them empowered _is_ helping though. It's still going to be organized chaos, > and will go with a lot of squeaky wheel greasing. But hey, that's open > source dynamics! > > For more about the current owner teams: > wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Doc/Process/Module_Owners > > Note: the current "project admin" team is just three people now. That role > hasn't been needed really in the past years, but I'd welcome to have a > great (UI) designer member there. This is going to be based on practical > involvement & achievements too, based on those who helped out with Blender. > > Thanks, > > -Ton- > > -------------------------------------------------------- > Ton Roosendaal - t...@blender.org <javascript:;> - www.blender.org > Chairman Blender Foundation - Producer Blender Institute > Entrepotdok 57A - 1018AD Amsterdam - The Netherlands > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > Bf-committers@blender.org <javascript:;> > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > -- Jonathan Williamson http://cgcookie.com _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers