[Bf-committers] Blender developers meeting notes - 2017-02-5

[Jacob Merrill]

Any word about the vive plugin of blender?  TheOnlyBouncer was talking
about it maybe squeeking in 2.79

On Feb 5, 2017 8:11 AM, "Ton Roosendaal" <ton at blender.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Here are the notes from today's 15 UTC meeting in irc.freenode.net
> #blendercoders.
>
> 1) Blender 2.78b, performance update
>
> - Linux and Windows binaries are ready
>
> - Mac OS version is coming soon. Sergey Sharybin will provide a release
> text and benchmark info.
> Ton Roosendaal will do updates on blender.org and logs.
>
> - Expected release date: this Tuesday.
>
> 2) Blender 2.79 targets
>
> - Project page has been updated, with planning proposal:
> https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.7#Release_Cycle
>
> - End of this month we want to make the final selection of targets.
> End of March these then should be finished in master.
>
> - Shadow Catcher will go to master Tuesday latest. Thomas Beck will assist
> Sergey with demos/docs.
>
> - Lukas Stockner's denoiser now is on the target list too. Lukas will
> remove the unfinished bits first.
>
> - Mai Lavelle's split kernel (OpenCL) en auto-tile-size project will be
> ready for merging in 2.79 too.
>
> - Luca Rood reminds everyone to test his deform modifier:
> https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Lucarood/SurfaceDeform
>
> 3) Blender 2.8
>
> - We had a 90 minutes well visited project meeting in irc last week.
> Dalai Felinto will post the log and notes of that meeting here.
>
> - In general we will move as much development in one 2.8 branch now.
>
> 4) Google Summer of Code
>
> - Forms have been submitted, the Ideas page will get a last treatment this
> week.
> Deadline is 9 February. Google will announce the accepted orgs on 27
> February.
>
> - We can always use more mentors! Make sure you're known as mentor
> candidate by speaking up here.
>
> 5) Other news
>
> Luca Rood will pack his bags in Brazil and will move to the Netherlands!
> He gets a job at
> Blender Institute per April. He will work with Dalai (viewport) and Sergey
> (depsgraph), work on
> getting particles/hair restored in 2.8 and will do his share in dev
> support and fixes in the tracker.
>
> Laters,
>
> -Ton-
>
> --------------------------------------------------------
> Ton Roosendaal  -  ton at blender.org   -   www.blender.org
> Chairman Blender Foundation, Director Blender Institute
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>
>
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