2024-07-09 Blender Admins Meeting

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Attendees

  • Bastien Montagne
  • Campbell Barton
  • Dalai Felinto
  • Francesco Siddi
  • Philipp Oeser
  • Sergey Sharybin
  • Thomas Dinges

Notes

  • Policy for the enumerator values
    • The technical feedback thread: Style for enumerator values
    • Generally fine to follow TitleCase for enum class, as it what most of the active developers prefer
    • Avoid big cleanup, if possible
    • The admins share a concern of abbreviations in the names (ID, UV, BSDF, IOR, etc). A guide for those needs to come together with the new enumerator value guide.
  • A topic of using literal and and or in C/C++ code was brought up.
    • The consensus is: don’t use them.
    • The style guide needs to be updated for that
  • The meeting discussed renaming BCON levels to matched release cycle names
    • The goal is to make things more clear for people who are more occasional to the community, or new to it.
    • The downside is that it looses the strict moment in the release schedule where big changes are not allowed, but smaller are fine.
      • It was always fuzzy tough, and was checked on case-by-case basis
      • It is possible to have clear rule like “projects should land within N weeks of alpha” (just an example)
      • Need to check with Ton and gather feedback from other active members of the community
      • Once everybody is on-board, Thomas will help with communication and updates
  • World texture nodes
    • They are in some weird limbo, where you can select World texture in the Texture Nodes editors, but can not add them
    • Agreement is to remove for 4.3
  • 3.3 LTS is technically overlapping with the 4.2 LTS for August and September. We accept this overlap, but might not be as pro-active in backports (only port really crucial fixes). In the future such overlaps should not happen, as all the releases will be made with the same release schedule.
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You could just do this, that way the distiction between Bcon 1 and 2 still exists:

  • Alpha phase 1 (Bcon 1)
  • Alpha phase 2 (Bcon 2)
  • Beta (Bcon 3)
  • Release Candidate (Bcon 4)
  • Then I’m not sure what Bcon 5 should be called. Release candidate again?

Other alternatives for names are “Pre-Alpha” and “Alpha”. Or “Early Alpha” and “Alpha”, etc.

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