[Bf-committers] Weekly Blender developer meeting - 18 January, 2016

[gandalf3]

2.8 is to be the "workflow" release.
You can read more about it here: 
https://code.blender.org/2015/07/blender-2-8-the-workflow-release/

On 01/18/2016 02:24 AM, Vicente Carro wrote:
> Regarding 2.8, is that one going to be the "VFX industry" release? Or
> something like that?
> On 18 Jan 2016 10:08, "Ton Roosendaal" <ton at blender.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Here are the notes from today's meeting in irc.freenode.net,
>> #blendercoders
>>
>> 1) Todos and planning for 2.77
>>
>> - The updated planning and targets for the next release:
>> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Doc/Projects
>>
>> - Meeting agrees on moving to BCon3 next meeting (27th). That means
>> patches should then
>> be applied in master.
>>
>> - Kevin Dietrich: the OpenVDB caching patch was reviewed and accepted by
>> Brecht, unless someone
>> has any objections, I can apply it in master this week.
>> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Kevindietrich/OpenVDBSmokeExport
>>
>> - Bastien Montagne: merged all ID linking fixes he dared!
>>
>> - Bug tracker has 157 open issues. A lot of work to handle all the open
>> issues.
>>
>> - Python3.5 update is done... so unless guys report bugs we assume its all
>> working 100%
>>
>> - Alexander Romanov will work this week on getting his patches approved
>> and applied.
>> Specifically:
>> https://developer.blender.org/D909  (GLSL vector transform node)
>> https://developer.blender.org/D1414 (World texture display in viewport)
>>
>> 2) Other projects
>>
>> - Campbell Barton's boolean code is WIP, will not replace Carve modifiers
>> yet (for 2.77).
>>
>> - Lukas Toenne: working on compiler stuff for object_nodes. Complex stuff,
>> not attractive to show.
>>
>> - Ton: work on 2.8 could get accelerated a bit. Especially to collect
>> feasible proposals and designs.
>> Based on that we then can decide on how to handle funding (dev fund,
>> crowd, etc)
>>
>> - Sergey Sharybin moves to Amsterdam, will work full time for Blender
>> Institute now.
>>
>>
>> -Ton-
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------
>> Ton Roosendaal  -  ton at blender.org   -   www.blender.org
>> Chairman Blender Foundation - Producer Blender Institute
>> Entrepotdok 57A  -  1018AD Amsterdam  -  The Netherlands
>>
>>
>>
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