Fully agree as well, nothing to add to previous mails at this point. :)
Le 16/07/2016 à 15:23, Brecht Van Lommel a écrit : > Agreed. I think even if some discussions are more efficient to do on > IRC, offline, ..., the rationale for technical decisions should always > end up archived on developer.blender.org and should not be presented > as a a foregone conclusion, though in the end the module owners or > project maintainers decide of course. > > Personally I would also like to see developers use > developer.blender.org or wiki.blender.org always for presenting design > docs, instead of Google docs, blogs, github repos, or other formats > that are sometimes used. Or at least add a developer.blender.org task > were updates are posted and which people can subscribe to. Often it's > difficult to be even aware something is going. > > We definitely need to do a better job of communicating roadmaps and > plans, not as promises to users but for developers to be able to get > involved more easily and avoid surprises when people submit patches > that don't fit the plans the module owners have in mind. > > > On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 1:17 PM, Sergey Sharybin <sergey....@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> While i see that some level of private communication is needed when dealing >> with studios who doesnt' do Open Movies to understand their workflow better >> and such, that's where private commuication ends IMO. All the technical >> details of both short and long terms of Blender development should be moved >> to piblic. This also includes all the roadmaps and such. >> >> I agree with Campbell that it should be formalized and put in a way that we >> communicate development in public. >> >> On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 12:51 PM, Joel Godin <joelgo...@ymail.com> wrote: >> >>> Amen. I think that's what 'open' in 'open source' is supposed to mean. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Saturday, July 16, 2016 3:16 AM, Campbell Barton < >>> ideasma...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Hi, recently a private group was setup for Blender developers and >>> professional users >>> with active developers receiving invites (unofficial, unrelated to the >>> Blender-Foundation/Institute). >>> >>> While there nothing wrong with people setting up their own private >>> communication channels, >>> it raises a concern regarding decision making policy. >>> >>> So far we have been quite informal in our development process without >>> minimal rules & policy documents. >>> Its even possible we discussed this already, but I couldn't find any >>> information on it, only [0] which doesn't cover very much. >>> >>> I'd be more comfortable that developers are part of private groups >>> like this if we had a policy similar to the Apache software project, >>> that is: >>> >>> "Project technical decisions MUST be made and communicated on public >>> and archived places." [1] >>> >>> This is formalizing what we're already doing (for the most part), on >>> the mailing lists and developer.blender.org. >>> >>> I'm proposing to update our policy document to include this text. >>> >>> >>> [0]: https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Doc/Projects/Policy >>> [1]: https://www.apache.org/dev/project-requirements#governance (second >>> point) >>> >>> -- >>> - Campbell >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Bf-committers mailing list >>> Bf-committers@blender.org >>> https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Bf-committers mailing list >>> Bf-committers@blender.org >>> https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers >>> >> >> >> -- >> With best regards, Sergey Sharybin >> _______________________________________________ >> Bf-committers mailing list >> Bf-committers@blender.org >> https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > Bf-committers@blender.org > https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers