Attendance:

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

Discussion:

• TAC project update:
• Mention Imath
• Example images
• Larry: We don’t have a modern production image with the metadata you’d expect.
• Larry: I come across EXR images with godawful numbers of channels or parts
• Joseph: I have some Alexa image that was crafted to use all 17 stops
• Kimball: CG torture test 17 depth channels and 43 AOV’s
• Peter:  should update the deep stuff. A production-level complexity deep file
• Can serve as a benchmark
• Peter: some standard images around useful to talk to vendors
• Joseph: I sent out a communication to marketing people about some sample images
• Joseph: Need an updated photo of Rod’s office.
• Cary: should mention outreach to maintainers and alternate bindings projects
• Joseph: frustration that macports people don’t even respond
• Peter: redhat/suse people reached out about a problem after a release
• Kimball: some kind of beta with them
• Larry: ideally they see our release-staging issues.
• Kimball: OpenEXR wrappings, or just OIIO?
• Larry: not having a python binding is not as big a problem as that there’s a lame one out there.
• Larry: It’s the decoupling of the efforts that causes the friction
• Nick: Invite them to come by and talk 
• Larry: Before, there wasn’t the option
• PyOpenEXR

• Threading crash on Windows shutdown: 
• Kimball: I’m solving the Rubix cube blind, hoping to get the fix for random crash
• Give it another week or so.
• Larry’s proposed API extension PR:
• Larry: it deserves much more of a discussion about what we want a stateless API to be. Needs to consider the deep, multipart.
• Next release: 
• Kimball: the C++ library doesn’t link against the core.
• Peter: not a drop-in replacement
• Cary: Plan for a 3.2 or 4.0
• Nuke does link against the core