Breaking news: Campbell Barton back on Blender - users rejoice!

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Sorry for the hyperbole, seems to be popular these day, haha . See mail to committers mailing list below:

Hi, after a 7 months away I’m happy to announce I’ll be working for
the Blender-Foundation again!
It’s work from home, on a per-project basis.

I’ll be focusing on the Blender-101 and work-flow improvements starting March.
Also some time on code-review and fixing bugs in UI/workflow related
areas so as not to put too much pressure on existing maintainers.

Noticed new developers getting involved and 2.8x progress is great to see :slight_smile:

Regards,

  • Campbell

Lets hope for his presence back on the BA forums as well. They could use a sprinkle of his calm and reason.

Welcome back, Campbell - we missed you!

Edit: I just now saw this was posted in the 2.8 dev thread as well. Nevermind, I think it needs some special attention :slight_smile:

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Jeeze Ace, clickbait much? :stuck_out_tongue:

But this is great news, glad to hear he is coming back!

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Haha, funny you should mention Ace, as I was trying to channel him when writing the subject line :wink:

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Welcome back, ideasman42!.
Like many other Blender developers, Campbell has been very kind and patient with us (just users) :slight_smile:

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Oh cool
Guess whatever he left for either didn’t pan out or wasn’t that huge.

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Or, you know, he just needed to do something else for a while, and it was never said that he would never come back…

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Yeah
that too.

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pretty good, awesome, cool, great, very good… I cant breath…

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Well that’s a nice birthday present

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great news, happy to hear this

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Welcome back, Campbell!

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Happy to see the legend return! Thank You for all your hard work and your help!

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I also welcome him back to Blender work (the BF can always use more hands on Blender 2.8).

So it does appear like he was just taking a break (I hope that has refreshed his mind and has inspired him to try some new approaches to issues that he never thought about before).

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The Commit King has returned! Welcome back.

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Edit: I just now saw this was posted in the 2.8 dev thread as well. Nevermind, I think it needs some special attention :slight_smile:

Yeah he definitely needs special attention.

Welcome back home Cambo, and make that commit log explode buhahaha.

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That’s awesome news indeed. Welcome back Campbell!

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Wellgone back !

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Sweet! Good news.

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Great News -WB

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Cool… :slight_smile: