[Bf-committers] Blender developers meeting notes, 2016-12-17

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

2016! We're still in 2016!

-Ton-

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Ton Roosendaal  -  ton at blender.org   -   www.blender.org
Chairman Blender Foundation, Director Blender Institute
Entrepotdok 57A, 1018 AD, Amsterdam, the Netherlands



> On 18 Dec 2016, at 17:36, Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Here are the notes from today's 15 UTC meeting in irc.freenode.net #blendercoders.
> 
> *** NOTE: next week 25 December we skip the meeting. Sunday 1 January we meet as usual.
> 
> 1) Blender 2.8 projects
> 
> - We have a viewport project plan! 
> For discussions, use the blog on https://code.blender.org
> or read the wiki doc:
> https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.8/Source/Viewport/PlanOfAction
> 
> - Clement Foucault made a GLSL api design doc for new viewport, gets reviewed by Brecht van Lommel 
> now, and then gets published next week.
> 
> - Migration plan for viewport in 2.8 branch is (in short):
> (1) Finish render-layers
> (2) Depsgraph iterator to provide generic access to Objects with their data; 
> (3) New API for viewport, to use new Object access and Engines/Pass drawing structure
> (4) Start with new viewport code directory, and migrate old drawing code over piece by piece
> 
> Expectation is that (4) starts in the 2nd half of January.
> 
> - Workflow and 101 docs are almost done, will be there in a couple of days.
> 
> - Bastien Montagne made a first version of override system.
> https://developer.blender.org/D2417
> 
> - Sergey Sharybin worked on task scheduler for Dependency updates. Less fine grained, faster.
> 
> 2) Other projects
> 
> - Google Summer of Code students have updated status here:
> https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/GoogleSummerOfCode/2016
> All students are welcome to stay involved. Use the GSoC mailing list to ask for reviews or info.
> 
> - In 2017 we'll discuss release planning. There has been a request to update the release
> for blender-cycles, for the various Cuda/Opencl/Intel fixes.
> 
> - Antonio Vazquez is working moving palettes from grease pencil to Blender palettes.
> Design doc for Grease Pencil update will be published mid January.
> 
> Happy holidays!
> 
> -Ton-
> 
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> Ton Roosendaal  -  ton at blender.org   -   www.blender.org
> Chairman Blender Foundation, Director Blender Institute
> Entrepotdok 57A, 1018 AD, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
> 
> 
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