Hi all, Here are the notes from today's developer meeting. Next meeting is Tuesday, 14 April 18:00 CEST / 16:00 UTC, in #blender-coders on blender.chat.
Next week the meeting will be exceptionally on a Tuesday due to the Easters holiday. For the complete report read it on: https://devtalk.blender.org/t/6-april-2020/12471 Announcements ============= * Nathan Letwory started a proposal for how to handle LTS [1] feedback is welcome. * Welcome to the new contributors with commit access: * Robert Gützkow now has commit rights for the Blender repository. * Marco Pavanello now has commit rights for the Add-ons repository to develop “Real Snow”. * Michael Soluyanov now has commit rights for the Add-ons repository to maintain themes. Google Summer of Code ===================== * The students' proposals are currently under review (until January 31st). * Mentors to start reviewing the proposals, and claim the proposals that they want to mentor. Blender 2.83 ============ * bcon3 is next week's Wednesday on April 15th. * Nathan Letwory will prepare a workboard to reflect what needs to be done still for the release. * There are at the moment 25 known high priority bugs [2]. * Developers to fix high priority bugs in their area and find other bugs that have not being marked as high priority. Blender 2.90 ========== * Final release schedule presented by Nathan Letwory: ** bcon1 April 15, 2020 (master) ** bcon2 June 10, 2020 (master) ** bcon3 July 8, 2020 (blender-v2.90-release) ** bcon4 August 5, 2020 (blender-v2.90-release) ** bcon5 August 12 20, 2020 (blender-v2.90-release) Communication ============= * As a follow up for last week intention of making communication more open there are a few new things. * A new subforum in devtalk to register any meeting developers have [3]. These notes should be treated as public documents - readable by someone not in the meeting. All developers are encouraged to use it. * New changes in blender.chat to facilitate 1:1 discussions to happen publicly (see next). * Daily Activity Reports posted on blender-coders (blender.chat) with the daily activity of the BI/BF developers. Contributors that want to be included, just poke Dalai Felinto before 17h CEST. * There are still no decisions on the communication channels for the modules. Each module is still free to decide whether to use devtalk or blender.chat or bf-committers. blender.chat ============ * Threads and discussions were re-introduced last week. * There are mixed impressions on how much they help or get on the way. [1] - https://devtalk.blender.org/t/long-term-support-and-its-implications/12525 [2] - https://developer.blender.org/maniphest/query/lk7WGHM1kcR4/#R [3] - https://devtalk.blender.org/c/blender/meetings-archive/18 -Dalai- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Dalai Felinto - [email protected] - www.blender.org Blender Development Coordinator _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
