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  • Published 22 Aug 2019

Do the Blender Foundation is aware that this website exists?

The Blender Foundation has gathered a lot of full time developers for Blender 2.8, but none of the feature suggested here are in their todo list. Are they aware that this website exists? Also note that some that are suggesting new feature are donators since several years and that would be good if they at least would answer to the suggestions and add them to their todo list or hire new developers to implement the ideas posted here. And if they want in the future to participate here, i would suggest an Implemented button.

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dbekhouc
22 Aug 2019

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ChameleonScales

Also remember that unlike Maya's "Little annoying things", this is not just addressed to the core devs, since Blender is open source. Several requests have already been implemented as add-ons by some people and hopefully some will be implemented in the kernel by developers outside of the institute.

jason

Moved to the Meta category

Most Blender developers know of the site and a few will make comments on various proposals posted here. But as mentioned in the FAQ , developers often have their own priorities that they have to meet first, so there's no guarantee that any proposals here will ever be developed.

There is a plan to add features to this site that more closely tie it to developer.blender.org in the event that a proposal gets to that stage... but I have priorities, too. :) I'll more than happily accept pull requests if anyone is willing to implement some features listed in the Meta category.

wisaac407

Could you give a link to the repository? I'd be happy to give a go at implementing some features.

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jason

I have a fork of Dillo (the backend for this site) on my github page . I'm overdue for upgrading, but even with an upgrade, there are a number of features we'd need to add to the Dillo codebase.

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wisaac407

Would it make sense to use the issue tracker on that fork? That way it would be easier to know what features are waiting to be implemented.

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jason

It would. And I have. For some reason, Issues were disabled in the fork's settings. Fixed now.

carlisle.b3d

I think most of the core devs know. However, the big issue is most devs are busy with what they are being paid for, working on 2.8. I would think that we might see more of these ideas take form when 2.8 is out the door.

lsscpp

Right. Just a little bit of feedback would be great though...

ChameleonScales

> I would think that we might see more of these ideas take form when 2.8 is out the door.

Wait for the Agent 327 feature film to start or the 2.9 targets (^ - ^) or big studios migrating to Blender paying the Bl. Institute to get their requests developped (°_ °) or whatever new project will emerge (._ .) ( l: ) ( .-. ) ( :l ) (._.)

No but seriously I think there are several reasons why the ideas posted here don't get much attention from core developers :

  • 1 : 2.8 as you said
  • 2 : developers have their own ideas, so it would take a lot of demand to take them out of those, and about that “demand”, see point 3.
  • 3 : votes ! (I wish I had full statistics for this point) There are probably hundreds of thousands of users around the world and not even any limitation for the number of votes any user can submit, and yet the most upvoted ideas I’ve seen don’t even get past the 50s ! Maya’s “Little annoying things” has many requests around 100.
  • 4 (supposition) : in a discussion between Campbell, Thomas & J. V. Gumster, they talked about the creation of rightclickselect and didn't really agree on some important points about it. I'm not as qualified as them to say which decision is the best but I feel like complying with institute developers would've helped on getting them on board a little more.
  • 5 : many ideas are underdevelopped and their OP didn’t put enough time into writing and mocking up (if that’s a word) which is a big drawback for a developer.