Thanks, Dalai! That definitely clears things up for me, at least. I appreciate you taking the time to write that up.
--Nathan On Monday, February 15th, 2021 at 20:40, Dalai Felinto via Bf-committers <bf-committers@blender.org> wrote: > Hi Nathan, > > First let me say that this was poorly communicated on my end. I will try > to clarify now. > > The meetings were not effective as they used to be a few years ago. One > of the main purposes of the meetings was to review and agree on > development and design proposals. This was a good moment to engage in > real-time with everyone involved in Blender development, especially > across time-zones. The last meetings have seen very low attendance and > interaction, making the presence of most attendees felt like a formality. > > I see this as a reflection of much Blender has grown recently. Dealing > with the growth of the Blender project while keeping it welcoming and > accessible is an important challenge, and active efforts are being > carried out in that regard. > > While for time being the general meeting is put on hold, all the other > activities carry on as usual. The chat channels, this mailing list, they > are all open, public and more active than ever. All the contributors are > encouraged to share their roadmaps. The modules are always open to new > contributors. > > What we expect next is two things: First, module teams are to organize > themselves more independently. They can decide on how often and how to > carry their public meetings. This is happening weekly already for the > animation and other modules. I would like this to be implemented for > other modules as well. > > Another thing is, at some moment (I don't know when yet) I would like we > to have a regular meeting with all the modules where we can schedule > release targets, assign bigger projects and find out topics related to > planning Blender as a general. For this, monthly is probably enough. But > feedback in the format and frequency is welcome. > Besides, this week Ton will share a post about modules and roles that > will help draw a picture of how all the modules related with the > development of Blender. > > And as always, informal communication keeps happening on > > #blender-coders. I hope this helps clarifying the situation, > > -Dalai- _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
