TSC meeting notes from 7/25/2019

Signed-off-by: Cary Phillips <cary@ilm.com>

ASWF/tsc-meetings/2019-07-25.md

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+# 7/25/2019
+
+### Attending:
+
+* Cary Phillips
+* Peter Hillman
+* Kimball Thurston
+* Larry Gritz
+* Christina Tempelaar-Lietz
+* Rod Bogart
+* Emily Olin
+
+### Agenda
+
+* Prep for SIGGRAPH BoF. Draft of slides is here:
+  https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1mxzp6jn2zuHAyahzwhocwRTpoenNqO-LEvPUvS7gDww/edit?usp=sharing
+
+* Prep for 2.4 release.
+
+### Discussion
+
+* When the repo moves to the ASWF organization, we'll make it
+  "OpenEXR". Capitalization isn't consistent across ASWF projects, but
+  we prefer it this over "openexr".
+
+* SIGGRAPH BoF prep:
+
+  * Preable about the ASWF and recent progress should be brief; most
+    time should be reserved for the discussion. And the topics should
+    be presented as "community issues", raised by the community for
+    discussion within the community, facilitated by the TSC. These are
+    not plans to be executed by the TSC, the TSC is merely a
+    gatekeeper.
+
+  * Imath proposal: 
+
+    * Half should have #define/#ifdef so that when included with CUDA half.h, the first one wins.
+
+  * Peter's part ordering standard/documentation should be a proposal to go into a 3.0 release. 
+
+  * The need for a "tiny" EXR implementation? Because there are
+    numerous divergent ones out there; rumored examples at Apple,
+    Intel, and a part of ffmpeg, instigated by several factors:
+
+    1. People building OpenEXR get to the b44 log table build stage and say, WTF?!?
+
+    2. There is no option to build the library without exceptions, a
+       deal-breaker for platforms/compilers that don't support
+       exceptions, and a turn-off for many others.
+
+    3. You need a PhD in CMake to get it to build.
+
+    4. For many people, the write-it-yourself threshold is quite low.
+
+  * There are people who choose not to use the library. We should
+    listen to them, even if they're not in the VFX industry. OpenEXR
+    is widely used; we have an obligation to be stewards outside of
+    just the film industry.
+
+* Release prep:
+
+  * Windows build is not quite working. There are still problems with boost.
+
+  * Windows tests are failing.
+
+* Issues:
+
+  * #445 should not go into 2.4. It needs a more thorough analysis, and wider testing.
+