[Bf-committers] Blender developers meeting notes - 2017-11-20

[Aaron Carlisle]

> * Ton Roosendaal will remind everyone of the patch review meeting idea
> during the coming week. The idea is to be 90 minutes max, 30 patches max.
> Where developers can submit patches for a 3 minutes accept/reject
> descision.

Something that could go along with this is communicating to new developers
that one way they
could help is updating patches that are going through code review but the
original author lost interest


Aaron Carlisle

Picture taker | Bit cruncher | Pixel pusher | Document writer | Artist
Project administrator for the Blender 3D Documentation Project

On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 12:49 PM, Dalai Felinto <dfelinto at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Here are the notes from today's 18 UTC meeting in irc.freenode.net
> #blendercoders. Reminder: meetings are on Mondays now, next meeting is 27
> Nov, 9 UTC (10 CET).
>
> 1) Blender 2.79
>
> Nothing to report. Goal is still to look at it on early December. Specially
> if we bring in Cycles performance improvements from master.
>
> 2) Blender 2.8
>
> * Meta-balls are back! Kudos for Germano Cavalcante and patch reviewers.
>
> * There is a dynamic override and depsgraph design document:
> https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.8/Source/overrides/depsgraph
>
> * Static overrides is on review aiming at merge in 2.8 -
> https://developer.blender.org/D2417
>
> * Cleanup news: After the SceneRenderLayer "removal" patch (D2919)  we will
> unify the name of the old render layers across the code, user docs, python
> api and the UI (we have render layer, view layer and scene layer now). This
> may require a short-lived hack in our read code for files created with
> Blender 2.8.
>
> * Eevee subsurface scattering is now bettter supported for the principled
> share using proper physically based algorithm (Burley SSS).  You can see
> more on Clément Foucalt's weekly report:
>
> lakhttps://
> wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Hypersomniac/Foundation/
> 2017#Week_49:_13th_-_19th_November
>
> * Grease pencil is doing tests to get smooth drawing. A lot of new
> parameters were added to the user interface of brushes. But they will clean
> them up after the tests.
>
> * A new proposal for shifting the Blender 2.8 priorities was posted here:
> https://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-committers/2017-
> November/048912.html
>
> Discussion started on that but continued outside the meeting.
>
> 3) Other projects
>
> * This Week in Blender is still being updated:
> https://thisweekinblenderdev.github.io/
>
> * Campbell will mail a proposal to handle onboarding via forums (discord),
> similar to what Rust does. More details soon.
>
> * Ton Roosendaal will remind everyone of the patch review meeting idea
> during the coming week. The idea is to be 90 minutes max, 30 patches max.
> Where developers can submit p atches for a 3 minutes accept/reject
> descision.
>
> Regards,
> Dalai
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> www.dalaifelinto.com
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