Having a "This Week in Blender Development" ~ activity log would fill a gap. Not just for anyone interested in following development, it could also help give attention to new development - patches, branches etc.
Currently there activity on developer.blender.org which is too detailed, or the very occasional blog post on code.blender.org. While the weekly meetings notes aren't meant to be a general news - every so often newsworthy items are included. I have the impression people want to read them to find out interesting things that are going on. The topics in the meeting notes are quite haphazard - depending on timezones and who shows up to the meeting. Having said all this, added communication takes time - the author of this-week-in-rust said it takes between ~4-6 hours a week. A Blender equivalent would be much smaller since we wouldn't be including general news (things BlenderNation already covers). If this can be shared between a few people I think its not such a big task to maintain. Ideally anyone could submit items (this-week-in-rust accepts via pull requests and twitter). On boarding is a big topic, would rather discuss in IRC. On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 11:18 PM, Aaron Carlisle <[email protected]> wrote: > I like the idea of moving the weekly meeting to Monday and alternating the > time. > As far as other forms of communication a definitely think that something > better needs to be done. > I like the idea of activity log, the forum would be hard to maintain a > could end up like: > https://www.blender.org/forum/ This would also be hard to use along side > with blenderartists.org > not to mention the fact that like blenderartists no one will like to go to > the forum. > > Aaron Carlisle > > Picture taker | Bit cruncher | Pixel pusher | Document writer | Artist > Project administrator for the Blender 3D Documentation Project > > On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 8:27 AM, Ton Roosendaal <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> With a lot of Blender's development now handled by people who do it as a >> daytime job, the weekend meetings are increasingly hard to keep interesting >> and useful. >> >> The Monday morning 2.8 kickoff session (see previous mail) is much more >> productive. >> However, it only suits EU and Asia/Australia, not the Americas. >> >> Proposal: alternate Monday meetings to be 10:00 and 18:00 Amsterdam time. >> Drop the Sunday meetings. >> Other ideas welcome :) >> >> Campbell pointed at what Rust (programming language) does. >> >> 1) Forums: (discourse) >> https://internals.rust-lang.org/categories >> >> 2) Weekly activity log >> https://this-week-in-rust.org/ >> >> 3) Freenode IRC meetings based on interest, scheduled via activity log >> #rust-community, #rust-docs, #rust-triage >> >> Especially the triage sessions follow an interesting approach: >> https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/rust-release-triage >> >> 4) No mailing lists! >> https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2015-January/011558.html >> >> Now I don't think we need to drop mailing lists, but the forums and >> activity log sound great. >> Discourse also might help making our onboarding process better. >> >> What do you think? >> >> -Ton- >> >> -------------------------------------------------------- >> Ton Roosendaal - [email protected] - www.blender.org >> Chairman Blender Foundation, Director Blender Institute >> Entrepotdok 57A, 1018 AD, Amsterdam, the Netherlands >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 -- - Campbell _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
