Attendance:

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

Discussion:

• Revisiting plans for 3.2 release:
• Email with Nick Cannon implied it’s no big deal, just send a message to the group, but expectations were tentative anyway.
• Cary will send a message to VES committee, but Kimball will draft it first and circulate for review
• Should hint that we’ll backport the faster reading operation in a ABI compatible way
• Larry: Somebody at Sony was using an obscure header and noticed some stray references to half.h w/no directory. Will encourage her to submit a PR.
• Peter: A fuzz issue is still open: fast half decode in Core library. Kimball: Oops, didn’t see that one.
• CII Silver/Gold requirements:
• Cary: Many items are already met. Potential thorn is test coverage.
• Larry: I recently worked on improving OSL coverage. Started at 70%, just broke 80%, would be really hard to get to 90%. OIIO is struggling to get to 70%.
• Larry: OpenEXR is no longer passing the SonarCloud gates:
• https://sonarcloud.io/project/overview?id=AcademySoftwareFoundation_openexr
• https://sonarcloud.io/summary/overall?id=AcademySoftwareFoundation_openexr
• Kimball: I had to generate memory failures
• Peter: We have several unreachable error handles
• Project Update for the TAC is coming November 30:
• Cary: We struggle with Windows support, and addressing test failures on machine setups we don’t have access to
• Kimball: I have a Windows laptop for the first time in 20 years!
• Cary: We need to do a better job of grooming the next generation of developers/maintainers
• Larry: The best way to attract new people is to do exciting things. Nvidia expanding direct loading of GPU.
• Kimball: Support bfloat16
• Larry: I’d love to have support for 16-bit ints
• Kimball: We have to care how that’s encoded. Could allow only certain encodings.
• Peter: could we get away with not needing it by clever compression