TSC Meeting Notes 2022-07-28

Attendance:

  • Cary Phillips
  • Christina Tempelaar-Leitz
  • John Mertic
  • Joseph Goldstone
  • Kimball Thurston
  • Larry Gritz
  • Nick Porcino
  • Peter Hillman
  • Rod Bogart

Discussion:

  • Kimball: Heads down on rendering for Avatar
  • Open Source Days prep:
    • Kimball: Just planning a status of the adoption of the core library
    • Community feedback:
      • ABI stability
        • 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:
        • 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?
        • Bc6h, zstd, LERC, Rice, ZFP
  • VFX Ref Plat deadline progress? 
    • 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  • Macports: 4 years out of date
    • 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.