Attendance:

Discussion:

• Kimball: Heads down on rendering for Avatar

• Open Source Days prep:

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  • Kimball: Just planning a status of the adoption of the core library

  • Community feedback:

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    • ABI stability

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      • Do we have to make an OpenEXR 4 before ensuring ABI compatibility?

      • Kimball: I’m poking away at making most of the C++ ABI inline.

    • Representatives:

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      • Florian, to give perspective

      • Phil Barrett at Filmlight

      • OS groups. We’re deployed in OS’s now

      • Foundry: Matthew Mazerole (TAC rep)

    • Do we consider extending the compression list?

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      • Bc6h, zstd, LERC, Rice, ZFP

• VFX Ref Plat deadline progress? 

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  • Kimball: should be OK.

  • Have to deal with string attribute

  • Will introduce C++17 as an ifdef to use string view

• Macports: 4 years out of date

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  • Hasn’t touched the library since 2.3.0. But tt isn’t dead.

  • Do we have any experience with anything more than a member of TSC reaching out?

  • Nick: Catch up on the vcpkg openexr thread that’s been going on for two years.

  • Kimball: It's taken 2 weeks to figure out how to build OIIO.

  • Joseph: Homebrew has solved it.

  • Joseph: Googled the maintainer, professor at Univ. Maryland.

  • Nick: reach out and ask to help, or take over as owner.

  • Could ask ASWF for support.

  • Nick: OTIO - Jean-Christophe Morin has been a huge help.