[Bf-committers] Weekly Blender developers meeting notes - October 18, 2015

[Campbell Barton]

Hi,

- Meeting agrees to release 2.76a to fix some regressions,
  but postpone until after bconf.

  Revisions will be collected for inclusion here:
  http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.76/Bug_Fixes/2.76a_revisions


Other Projects
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- Bastien Montagne has patches awaiting review for master:
  - Very first step to handle missing libs/datablocks when reading a file.
    https://developer.blender.org/D1394
    to be reviewed by Campbell.
  - BLI_task: add optional 'forced background' behavior to pools
    https://developer.blender.org/D1565
    to be reviewed by Sergey.

- Dalai Felinto has patch for Py/GPU OffScreen ready for master:
  (To support VR headset integration)
  https://developer.blender.org/D1533

- Ulysse Martin has his first? patch accepted :)
  Rectangle & ellipse spot-lamps (using scale)
  https://developer.blender.org/D1378
  (now in master, but nice to mention)

Note that OpenGL render now uses OpenGL3.2's anti-aliasing,
however we have report it fails on some Intel cards,
help checking hardware compat would be appreciated
- just check if view-port render works on default scene is enough.
See: https://developer.blender.org/T46496

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- Campbell