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Aqsis Developer Meeting - 20071007 (21:30 BST)

Weekly Review

What's been happening this week and the progress of last week's tasks.

  • Zac Carter
    • Working on the DSM (branch) having some problems switching to CMake.
  • Paul Gregory
    • Updating the Wiki to include some description of the sampling proposal.
    • Investigating a solution to the problem of deliverable & printable documentation.
  • Chris Foster
    • More work on texlib, specifially scanline oriented TIFF reading.
    • Improving the unit testing framework in CMake (texlib branch).

Tasks (Outstanding):

  1. Document sampling approaches (focussing on the rewrite) on the Wiki - pgregory
  2. Document the repository/branch/build strategy on the Wiki - renderguy
  3. Examine state of the documentation, start discussion pages - ALL
  4. Move the bake2tif functionality into RiMakeTexture
  5. Remove the plugins
  6. Reimplement exr2tif as a simple executable converter to tide the users over until the new image conversion system is ready - tcolgate

Documentation (renderguy)

Overview

Discuss the findings of the group regarding the state of the current user documentation.

I've found a possible solution to the production of offline documentation, for delivery and printing. I'd like to discuss that too. Paul Gregory

Summary

First discussion revolved around the solution to deliverable/printable documentation. Paul described the operation of DokuTeXit, a custom Wiki renderer that renders direct from Wiki markup to LaTeX and then onto PDF. The general consensus was that this is a good solution. Careful thought will have to go into the structure and format of the documentation in Wiki in order to ensure that the conversion to PDF produces optimum results.

The next discussion point was the restructuring of the current 'manual' on the Wiki. renderguy suggested the following structure, having spent some time looking at comparative manuals, and identifying our current manuals weaknesses.

Aqsis Manual

  1. Welcome (about)
    • What's New
    • Features
    • Legal
  2. Installation
    • Requirements (environment)
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • OS X
  3. Running
    • aqsis
    • aqsl
    • aqsltell
    • teqser
    • miqser
    • piqsl
  4. Display Drivers
    • file
    • framebuffer
    • zfile
    • zframebuffer
    • shadow
    • tiff
    • xpm
    • exr
    • bmp
    • debugdd
    • piqsl
    • dsm
  5. Options & Attributes
    • Standard
    • Special
  6. Development
    • Libraries
    • Display Driver
    • DSO
  7. Support
    • Community (web/IRC)
    • Troubleshooting (FAQ)
    • Problem Reporting (SF)
  8. External Tools
    1. Content Creation
      • Houdini
      • Silo
      • PIXELS3D
      • Xfrog
      • Wings
      • K-3D
      • Ayam
      • MakeHuman
    2. Pipeline
      • LiquidMaya
      • RhinoMan
      • CGKit
    3. Renderfarm
      • Deadline
      • DrQueue
  9. Further Reading
    • Tutorials
    • Books
    • Other
  10. Glossary

The plan going forward was discussed. The intention is for renderguy to restructure the existing documentation to match the layout above. Then to identify areas that need input, record them on the Wiki, and encourage others in the team to help out filling in those areas.

Tasks

  1. Document the repository/branch/build strategy on the Wiki - renderguy
  2. Move the bake2tif functionality into RiMakeTexture
  3. Remove the plugins
  4. Reimplement exr2tif as a simple executable converter to tide the users over until the new image conversion system is ready - tcolgate
  5. Restructure the existing documentation to match the agreed layout - renderguy
  6. Record on the wiki all the tasks that need to be completed on the documentation - renderguy

Minutes

The complete transcript of the meeting can be found here.


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