[Bf-committers] thrice-monthly meeting notes: 18 May 2016

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi all,

Here are the notes from today's meeting in irc.freenode.net #blendercoders

1) Current projects and 2.78 plans

- The shortlist for 2.78 is becoming quite interesting. Newly added were
Cycles micro-displacement and improved B-bones.
https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Doc/Projects

- The Bendy bones:
https://code.blender.org/2016/05/an-in-depth-look-at-how-b-bones-work-including-details-of-the-new-bendy-bones/

- Meeting agrees on not scheduling a release yet, but end of July could work.

2) Work and plans for 2.8

- There's a branch for 2.8 now, please keep work and designs collected here:
https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.8/

- Alexander Romanov (Blend4Web team) started work on temporary removal of BI for 2.8. He will publish a patch and doc for review.

3) Google Summer of Code

- Next monday 23 May is official GSoC start. Several students already started!
We will ask them to report weekly (start Friday 27 May) on the soc maillist.

Join the GSoC list here:
https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/soc-2016-dev

-Ton-

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