[Bf-committers] Blender developers meeting notes - 2018-08-20

[Sergey Sharybin]

Hi everyone,

Here are the notes from today's developer meeting. Next meeting is Monday,
27 August 10:00 CEST (08:00 UTC).

1) Blender 2.8

- Dalai did a lot of work bringing motion tracking back to usable state in,
including reconstruction drawing in viewport, camera backgruond setup, clip
playback in viewport.
- Sebastian Koenig is working on porting "Setup Tracking Scene" to
collection, shadow catcher and other modern 2.8 technologies.
- Sergey got multires modifier to work on CPU using OpenSubdiv. Tools and
sculpting surrounding multires are the next in line.
- Martin Felke worked on proposal for fracture modifier in 2.8:
https://developer.blender.org/T54888#528900
- There is a call for content: default studio lights:
https://devtalk.blender.org/t/call-for-content-studio-lights/1869 You can
also watch video about the call: https://youtu.be/so7rCVlIoXg
- Work is being done on Armature support for grease pencil objects.
- Weekly reports:
* Bastien Montagne:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Mont29/Foundation/2018#Week_257_-_08.2F11_to_08.2F17
* Brecht Van Lommel:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Brecht/Reports/2018#Augest_13_-_17
* Campbell Barton:
https://gitlab.com/ideasman42/bf-blender-donelist/blob/master/content/2018.rst
* Clément Foucault:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Hypersomniac/Foundation/2018#Week_84_:_13th_-_19th_August
* Sergey Sharybin:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Sergey/Foundation/2018#Week_350:_13th_-_19_August

2) Google Summer of Code

- All mentors please make sure you've submitted the evaluation form!

3) Other topics

- Libraries update is in progress, OSL needs some work from Blender side to
solve crashes. Also, OSL doesn't currently build on 32bit platforms.
- We've got new committer: Vuk Gardašević (aka lijenstina), welcome aboard!

-- 
With best regards, Sergey Sharybin