Dev:WeeklyMeetingAgenda/2006-04-02nd

current projects

cloth

excellent progress being made - a preliminary patch will be provided this week for review

nodes

in next couple of weeks ton will finalize the specs for the nodes - including gathering the interested coders who are interested to maintain shaders and composit

renderer

ton would like to experiment with true buckets for geometry, and an API for external renderers to integrate with Blender well (Yafray, Povray, Aqsis, etc), also ram usage was a bottleneck during Orange, a way to reduce ram usage is needed

build systems

status of makefile update?

release schedule

1)testing builds by early of May 2)start splash screen competition now 3)March 24th CVS needs to be tagged as the Orange DVD version, a tarball and builds will be done by maintainers for the DVD