Listing the "Blender Foundation" as copyright holder implied the Blender
Foundation holds copyright to files which may include work from many
developers.
While keeping copyright on headers makes sense for isolated libraries,
Blender's own code may be refactored or moved between files in a way
that makes the per file copyright holders less meaningful.
Copyright references to the "Blender Foundation" have been replaced with
"Blender Authors", with the exception of `./extern/` since these this
contains libraries which are more isolated, any changed to license
headers there can be handled on a case-by-case basis.
Some directories in `./intern/` have also been excluded:
- `./intern/cycles/` it's own `AUTHORS` file is planned.
- `./intern/opensubdiv/`.
An "AUTHORS" file has been added, using the chromium projects authors
file as a template.
Design task: #110784
Ref !110783.
This implements the main aspects of changes to blendfile compatibility
as designed in #109151:
* Blender files which file minversion is newer than current Blender
executable won't be loaded at all.
* Blender files which file version is newer than current Blender will
triger systematic warning to user:
* In the status info bar (lower right corner in default UI).
* When attempting to save (overwrite) them.
This means that the file minversion becomes a hard limit, and not a
soft, warning-only as it used to be. Further more, forward compatibility
warning is now systematic (instead of depending on file minversion),
and more visible for users.
See also https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Process/Compatibility_Handling
for details over the new policy.
Technically:
* Opening any file with a minversion newer than current Blender file one
now triggers an early abort, with an error message reported to the user.
This is handled by a new utils called from `blo_decode_and_check`.
* Any file newer than current Blender version sets a new
`has_forward_compatibility_issues` flag in Main struct at read time.
* Status bar info area is turned into a template, which uses this flag
to display special warning UI and tooltip when set.
* A new confirmation popup appears when user tries to save (overwrite)
such a 'newer' blendfile, stating potential loos of data, and
proposing by default to 'save as' instead.
* The 'quit unsaved' popup has also been updated to 'save as' instead of
'save' when the edited file is has potential forward compitibility
issues.
Part of #109151 (PR !110109).
This commit implements described in the #104573.
The goal is to fix the confusion of the submodule hashes change, which are not
ideal for any of the supported git-module configuration (they are either always
visible causing confusion, or silently staged and committed, also causing
confusion).
This commit replaces submodules with a checkout of addons and addons_contrib,
covered by the .gitignore, and locale and developer tools are moved to the
main repository.
This also changes the paths:
- /release/scripts are moved to the /scripts
- /source/tools are moved to the /tools
- /release/datafiles/locale is moved to /locale
This is done to avoid conflicts when using bisect, and also allow buildbot to
automatically "recover" wgen building older or newer branches/patches.
Running `make update` will initialize the local checkout to the changed
repository configuration.
Another aspect of the change is that the make update will support Github style
of remote organization (origin remote pointing to thy fork, upstream remote
pointing to the upstream blender/blender.git).
Pull Request #104755
