[Bf-committers] Code quest weekly meeting notes - 2018-04-26

[Dalai Felinto]

Code Quest #3 Weekly
26th April, 2018

This was a 4-day week (King's day) with a few more removals (BI and BGE),
more final designs, polishing in some features and more:
https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.8/Source/CodeQuest/WeeklyReports

Here the highlights as presented by the contributors:

* Sergey:
 - Depedency graph copy-on-write task-force announcement.
 - https://developer.blender.org/T54810

* Dalai:
 - Collection visibility design with team.
 - Collection override design with team.
 - Planning
 - https://code.blender.org/2018/04/code-quest-planning/

* Brecht:
 - Plenty of UI changes.
 - Started implementing the collection changes.

* Pablo:
 - Started on Worbench and overlay engines modes mockups.
 - Video log #3 - Removals - Code Quest Log #03 - Blender 2.8
 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYzrFDBURL8

* Clément:
 - Visibility group for light probes.
 - background render (not entirely headless yet) for all platforms.

* Jeroen:
 - Performance.
 - Pseudo random colors.
 - Finalized sharp shadow design.

* Bastien:
 - Static override performance.
 - Started "insertion" override operations (modifiers, constraints, ...).

* Sybren:
 - Modifiers: Animation, mirror, build.
 - Merge of patch with a few working modifiers scheduled for this week.

* Campbell:
 - Toolbar and icons.
 - Worked into polishing existing work so it looks good.

* William:
 - Design for different areas.
 - Blog post: Tools, Toolbar and Tool Widgets.
 - https://code.blender.org/2018/04/tools-toolbar-and-tool-widgets/

* Joshua:
 - Greasepencil meeting, started merging work with Antonio Vazquez.
 - Organized the depedency graph task force and its 1,500 operators.
 - Some animation operators (multi-object and copy-on-write).
 - Timeline user interface changes (markers).

Regards,
Dalai
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