2020-10-27 - Tuesday Talks - Module Meetings

Meetings
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Tuesday Talks

Notes for module meetings of Tuesday, 27 October 2020.
Present: Dalai Felinto (all)

General Topics

  • Ongoing projects status
  • Take a look at the todos for the module
  • Last week review

Modeling

Participant: Campbell Barton.

  • Add Object Tool:
    • It didn’t make into 2.91
    • The current approach has glitches
    • To move release logs to 2.92 (Campbell)
    • It can provide the asset browser project with the internals to handle drag & drop into surfaces.
  • Tool System
    • Campbell would like to work on finishing the tool system
    • To propose as a project with clear design and ready definitions (Campbell)
  • TODO list feedback:
    • Workboards don’t give a good list of priorities for the TODOs
    • The previous landing page was better at presenting a curated
    • The wikipedia TODO list didn’t work well

Nodes & Physics

Participants: Sebastián Barschkis, Sebastian Parborg.

  • TODOs status
    • The mix of nodes and physics gets on the way of the module organization
    • Sebastian Parborg organized the tasks in the workboard, it is working well for them
    • New developers that want to get involved should reach out to the module members
  • Pending docs - to create empty entries on wiki (Sebastian)
    • Fluid system - Mantaflow integration
    • Rigid body - Bullet
    • Cloth simulation
    • Caching system

User Interface

Participant: Julian Eisel.

  • TODOs status
    • Old TODOs are organized on its own list
    • Some of those one-lines are not very clear
    • There are projects mixed with the todos
    • The list is not actively used
    • The workboard is used for managing the projects and the TODOs
    • For real TODOs the UI module use TODOs subtype, known issues and the old TODOs list
    • The current module goal is to not get contributors involved with TODOs but with projects instead
  • Asset Browser:
    • Needs stakeholder artists to continue (Julian and Dalai to figure this out).

Sculpt, Paint, Texture

Participant: Pablo Dobarro.

  • Pending docs - to create empty entries on wiki (Pablo)
  • New task with list of one-line TODOs and eventual link to a task if they need more info (Pablo)
  • Status of ongoing project:
    • Dyn-topo aimed at 2.92, Pablo can lead the review
    • Missing features for dynamic topology
      • Pablo to write a project proposal including the list of tools that will require icons with their explanation
      • Dalai to contact artist to provide icons
    • Brush management
      • Pablo can start working on the presets once there is a design

Animation & Rigging

Participant: Sybren Stüvel.

  • TODOs status
    • Landing page with explanation of different workboard columns (Sybren)
    • The TODOs list needs grooming, the module will work on that, a topic of this week’s meeting
  • No ongoing project, the module is in maintenance mode mostly
    • Bug fixing
    • Code documentation
    • Work on module TODOs

VFX & Video

Participants: Richard Antalík, Sergey Sharybin.

  • TODOs status:
    • Richard has a list in the VSE page.
    • There is still a wiki page with old tasks.
    • For this module the status of the TODO is very unclear due to a mix of issues that require new design, and proper TODOs
  • Ongoing projects:
    • Monique Dewanchand’s compositor proposal got feedback
    • Big compositor proposal by Manuel Castilla needs more time
    • Motion tracking has small interface changes

Data, Assets & I/O

Participant: Bastien Montagne.

  • TODOs status:
    • It is clear what is a TODO and a project (and a design task even).
    • The tasks are mixed in the long term official and nice to have columns in the workboard
    • The active tasks are on the corresponding release columns
  • Ongoing projects:
    • Overrides
      • Still an existing bug in production
      • Will be production stress-tested soon
      • Other todos are in the agenda but can be moved to module TODOs after the project is finished
      • Templates and outliner update are still pending, Bastien to ask Julian about that
    • USD
      • Needs syncing with the module

Grease Pencil

Participant: Antonio Vazquez.

  • Pending docs - to create empty entries on wiki (Antonio)
  • There is a “Grease Pencil Code Dive” presentation that can be adapted to the wiki
  • Ongoing projects:
    • SVG importer
      • Exploring different libraries
      • Will eventually present a project design for a intermedium layer to connect the backend (library) with Blender (grease pencil, curves, meshes)
    • Tracing is on review
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