I'd like to start a formal discussion around the steps we will take to give OCIO a breath of life. Hopefully we can work to make 2017 a year of progress. So in that spirit I'd like to layout a general game plan for comment and discussion.
General Notes:
Reading through our last discussion I found it troubling that due to the stalled public development, conversations and progress seemed to have moved behind closed doors. To facilitate openness I advise all contributors to relegate conversation to either the GitHub issues or this forum. I have created an OpenColorIO Slack channel if there needs to be quick group conversation among contributors, but the majority of conversation should be relegated to this forum.
I have been granted ownership to the GitHub repo, and can accomplish administrative tasks as necessary. I do not intend to accept Pull Requests in isolation, both due to the need for public discourse and my unfamiliarity with the codebase.
Development should continue in a "master-only" fashion, based on the previous branch/merge patterns and at the suggestion of Larry Gritz
Game Plan:
Organization
Project Owners
This is no slight to the current owners of OCIO, but would it be worth it to revisit the current owners and identify their level of involvement moving forward (based on interest and free time available)? It could be beneficial to add vocal / active developers to the helm of the project. Discussion welcomed.
Issues
Need to create a better issue labeling scheme, and need to maintain it's use. Suggestions welcome.
Are issues irrelevant / duplicates?
Do PRs solve specific issues?
Asses difficulty in solving
Pull Requests
Are they still relevant?
Rank in order of usefulness
Determine order of integration
Repository
Continuous Integration
In order to begin pulling a larger volume of Pull Requests, we need to update the CI system in use.
Alongside this is a reevaluation of the OCIO unit tests
Make private forks public
Address private forks with additional features (Dennis Adams, Mark Boorer, etc.)
Get them posted publicly, work into pull request
Road to 2.0
What are the dream requests?
How do we want to interact with OCIO in 5 years?
What movements on the horizon do we need to begin working towards?
What features would improve adoption in modern software?
Order of Attack:
Issue Labels
Easy PR with greatest image quality impact
Website + Documentation
Up to date? Documentation still relevant?
Website on version 1.0.8
Continuous Integration
PR review
Issue solving
Live, Long and Prosper
Please join me in conversation about the future of OCIO! All of the above is open to suggestion and critique.
