Dev:WeeklyMeetingAgenda/2006-09-24th

sunday meeting agenda sepember the 24th 2006!!!

SoC Status

Nick Sculpt Branch

• Patch against bf-blender is in tracker.
• CVS for sculpt-blender recently had bf-blender HEAD merged in.
• Needs review from ton.

Sionix's Sky Branch

• Still needs more documentation.
• Documentation planned to be completed on Wednesday.
• Sionix needs to make patch.
• Sirdude (Kent Mein) is mentor and needs to review.

Python API

• Addison-Wesley is interested in a blender-python book!
• The API currently is too flexible in some things, such as allowing access to the global object database.
• The current plan is to refactor the existing API into a better form wihout breaking older compatibility; this however may not be possible for all cases.
• Rewriting the API (perhaps reusing some old code) may be an option too.
• API needs a clearer roadmap, perhaps blender could benefit from one too.
• API discussion pages/ideas on the wiki needs cleanup.
• ianwill sums up current bpyapi discussion nicely: "current discussion is about a new / cleaner / less verbose / more intuitive / safer way to create objs."
• API topic needs some better/clearer design work, like how it could work with the planned Tool API.
• kaito: so it would help if the py api provides a clear list of targeted functionality, like import/export, custom tools, stuff like that
• kaito: We need consensis on specs for py api refactor + define it for blender c code itself (event/tools api)
• Scriptlinks could handle the script's state data better, like have an option for scriptlinks to keep their namespaces between frames.

Web Site Stuff

• As always, developer docs could use with some updating and perhaps migration to mediawiki!
• We need a maintainer for all developer docs.

Extrude

• In practice, it seems defaulting to group normal for exrude region really isn't that usefull, half the time most users end up cancelling and then doing a different transform.
• It's a really annoying behavior for some people.
• Perhaps default to grab mode, with perhaps a nkey shortcut or something to go to group normal-constrained mode.
• Extrude could be coded to go into normal grab mode, if all selected faces arn't close to co-planar. For example, if you select a face loop that's a full circle then press E, you don't want it going into traditional EKey normal-grab.

Patches

• 5028 Action Editor Snap Tools -- assigned to ton, sounds usefull.
• 5019 Solidify to Briggs
• 5012 Pose-bone snap to ton.
• 4940 Camera lens shift for architecture