[Bf-committers] Policy for decision making process

2016-07-16 Thread Campbell Barton
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

Re: [Bf-committers] Policy for decision making process

2016-07-16 Thread Joel Godin
Amen.  I think that's what 'open' in 'open source' is supposed to mean. On Saturday, July 16, 2016 3:16 AM, Campbell Barton wrote: Hi, recently a private group was setup for Blender developers and professional users with active developers receiving invites (unofficial, unrelated to th

Re: [Bf-committers] Policy for decision making process

2016-07-16 Thread Sergey Sharybin
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

Re: [Bf-committers] Policy for decision making process

2016-07-16 Thread Ton Roosendaal
Hi, I heard something about this. I assumed it was just a place for people with similar production background to share info or feedback about Blender. Blenderartists.org is far too noisy, I fully understand the need. But I didn't get the impression anyone who is serious about contributing to B

Re: [Bf-committers] Policy for decision making process

2016-07-16 Thread Brecht Van Lommel
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 dec

Re: [Bf-committers] Policy for decision making process

2016-07-16 Thread Bastien Montagne
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

Re: [Bf-committers] Policy for decision making process

2016-07-16 Thread Campbell Barton
On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 11:06 PM, Ton Roosendaal wrote: > Hi, > > I heard something about this. I assumed it was just a place for people with > similar production background to share info or feedback about Blender. > Blenderartists.org is far too noisy, I fully understand the need. > > But I did