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Minutes from 75th OpenVDB TSC meeting, Jan 12th, 2021, (EDT)
Attendees: Nick A., Jeff L., Ken M., Dan B.
Additional Attendees: Johannes Meng (Intel), JT Nelson (Blender), Andre Pradhana (DW), Bruce Chernaik (Intel)
Regrets: Peter C.
Agenda:
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Confirm quorum
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Secretary
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GitHub Issues
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ASWF Questionnaire
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SIGGRAPH
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Listing of authors
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deprecated C++14
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Deprecation of visitTree()
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Adding Half
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VDB visualize as points tool
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Change Logs
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Next Meeting
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Confirm Quorum
Quorum is present.
- Secretary
Secretary is Nick Avramoussis.
- forum
Briefly revisited the topic of Github issues vs the forum vs JIRA. Still no consensus, TBD.
- ASWF Questionnaire
The ASWF questionnaire has been distributed. Noted that there is a lot of questions before you get to the OpenVDB specific section and that it presents topics on every other ASWF FOSS too.
- SIGGRAPH
Course vs Open Source Days. General agreement that the OSDs feel like more BOF style presentations. Should clarify with the ASWF any expectations this year for those days.
- Listing of authors
Revisited the conversation on @author tagging in files. General consensus now is that both having the names or removing them is fine, but what is the policy. All agreed to keep the current stance, names are purely optional depending on the author and conflicts or issues on changes can be raised on the PR in question or with the TSC.
- deprecated C++14
Questions about the removal of the OPENVDB_DEPRECATED macro in OpenVDB 8.0.0. Have a macro makes deprecations easy to disable/enable per project. Most agreed this is a useful feature. Other solutions (system includes/include guards) are not necessarily always viable.
Vote on re-introducing the macro with an argument option for compiler messages: Nick, Ken, Jeff for, Dan against. Passed.
- Deprecation of tree visit() methods
Tree::visit() methods were deprecated with a message to use the DynamicNodeManager, but this is not a simple transition. It's not a 1:1 replacement as it changes execution order and parallelism. This needs documentation. We should only deprecate methods with similar or matching new functionality, or provide transition guides.
- Adding Half
- VDB visualize as points tool
- Change Logs
Time.
- Next Meeting
Next meeting is Jan 19th, 2021. 12pm-1pm EST (GMT-5).