2025-02-11 Blender Admins Meeting

Attendees:

  • Bastien Montagne
  • Campbell Barton
  • Jacques Lucke
  • Philipp Oeser
  • Thomas Dinges

Libraries

  • New library Manifold has been accepted for inclusion.
  • Meeting discussed general criteria for adding/rejecting a library
    • General common sense regarding costs/benefits
    • What would we not be keen to accept?
      • Has a new / incompatible license.
      • Newer compiler.
      • Maintenance issues: is it well maintained, are we likely to need to take over maintenance?
      • Significantly increases the Blender binary size.
      • Add a lot of complexity to the platform maintainers.

Forward compatibility for 4.5 LTS ← 5.0

  • Expectations are documented, see Blend File Compatibility
  • In general opening future 5.0 blend files in 4.5 LTS should not crash or corrupt the file

Python API renaming

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