_The meeting will be on [date=2025-04-24 time=18:00:00 timezone="Europe/Amsterdam"]. It is open for everybody interested to join the video call (link below)._

People present are referred to by first name for brevity. Others are referred to by full name.

## Links

- **[Video Call][videocall]**
- [A&R Module Meetings calendar][calendar] for inclusion in your own calendar app
- [Previous][prev] & [next][next] meeting notes
- [Long Term Plans][longterm] & [Current Focus][current]
- [Issues][issues] & [Pull Requests][PRs]
- [#module-animation][chat] chat channel
- [Draft agenda][draft] for any upcoming meetings

[prev]: https://devtalk.blender.org/t/2025-12-02-animation-rigging-module-meeting/43587
[next]: https://hackmd.io/@anim-rigging/rkRuV4Nc3

[videocall]: https://meet.google.com/otb-wyte-xec
[calendar]: https://stuvel.eu/anim-meetings/
[draft]: https://hackmd.io/@anim-rigging/rkRuV4Nc3
[issues]: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues?state=open&labels=268
[PRs]: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls?state=open&labels=268
[chat]: https://chat.blender.org/#/room/#module-animation:blender.org
[longterm]: https://developer.blender.org/docs/features/animation/module/bigger_projects/
[current]: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/projects/1

## Opening

- Please **raise your hand when you don't understand** things for any reason. The purpose of these meetings is collaboration. It is absolutely fine to ask for explanations.
- There are **no recordings** of the meeting. This way everybody is free to say or show anything they want.

## Since the Last Meeting / Announcements

- TBD

## Landed

Names are from the Git log. This list is limited to functional improvements & bugfixes.

**Blender**

**Technical Documentation**

**User Manual**

## Ongoing Work

[weekly-c]: https://projects.blender.org/ChrisLend/.profile/src/branch/main/reports/2025.md
[weekly-n]: https://projects.blender.org/nathanvegdahl/.profile/src/branch/main/reports/2025.md
[weekly-s]: https://projects.blender.org/dr.sybren/.profile/src/branch/main/reports/2025.md
[weekly-a]: https://projects.blender.org/andybeers/.profile/src/branch/main/reports/2025.md
[highseverity]: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues?state=open&labels=268%2c285

- [High Severity][highseverity] bugs:
- Christoph:
- [Christoph's weekly report][weekly-c]
- Nathan:
- [Nathan's weekly report][weekly-n]
- Sybren:
- [Sybren's weekly report][weekly-s]
- Animator meeting at Blender HQ, with *Demeter Dzadik*, *Hjalti Hjálmarsson*, *Pablo Fournier*, *Rik Schutte*, and Sybren:

## Patches: Review & Decision Time

- TBD

## Regression Scenarios

Natalie Rozvezeva wrote in the Module Owners chat:

Dear Module owners, a friendly reminder to use Winter of Quality (December - January) to prepare regression scenarios for your module. As we agreed on Dev gathering that we would like to try this approach of upcoming releases.

What it is:
human-oriented scenarios (written in plain text) that represent core functionality of each module. What a typical user should be able to do, regardless of what new shiny features were added in each release. And what is not covered by automated testing. Let’s say, users must be able to save a file, but we probably already have buildbot checking that.
It is possible that for your scenarios you would need a specific input file, maybe a complicated model or texture or video sequence that should be used as a test prop.

What we will do in the future - before each release, somewhere at a state of Beta we will gather developers and assign to each person some scenarios from not-their-own module. People can try the expected scenarios and make sure that all the newest development did not suddenly break main functionality of Blender.

It’s totally ok to keep things simple and write only a few basic scenarios for now while we try the approach. The list of scenarios could be expanded later. There is also no specific format for now, so please write them down in a way that works for your team.

Thank you! 🚀🚀🚀

## Help Needed

- TBD

## Next Meeting

The next meeting will be on [date=2025-10-30 time=18:00:00 timezone="Europe/Amsterdam"]. Again it will be open for everybody who’s interested. The [provisionary meeting agenda][draft] will be updated before the meeting.