TSC Meeting Notes 2020-05-14

Attending:

  • Aloys Baillet
  • Cary Phillips
  • Christina Tempelaar-Lietz
  • Joseph Goldstone
  • Kimball Thurston
  • Larry Gritz
  • Nick Porcino
  • Owen Thompson
  • Peter Hillman

Discussion:

  • Introduce Owen Thompson, Google Summer of Code intern, from the Motion Picture Science program at Rochester Institute of Technology. Internship runs June-August.

  • Discussed the Imath project:

    • A new repo, https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/Imath

    • Retain the revision history, via git rewrite history, maybe?

    • Add performance metrics, and performance regression tests.

    • Modernize the C++, too: constexpr, noexcept, CUDA-compatibility for half, etc.