[Bf-committers] Blender developers meeting notes - 2018-12-03

[Brecht Van Lommel]

Hi all,

Here are the notes from today's developer meeting. Next meeting is Monday,
10 December 18:00 CET (17:00 UTC).

1) Blender 2.8 Beta

Finally released! For info see here:
https://code.blender.org/2018/11/blender-2-8-beta/

The bug tracker is open again for general reports and is being flooded.
Developers focus on triaging and fixing. Some interesting tracker stats are
here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jNB4jhnFzNs6vapRv-uAyvlZ4fdmgw5_QIwjry4OPRk

2) New Features and Changes

* Left click select as default, spacebar defaults to play animation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR_mFxl0bnM
* Toolbar added in node editor.
* Font textbox overflow methods: overflow, truncated and scale-to-fit.
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Reference/Release_Notes/2.80/Modeling#Text_improvements
)
* Better thread scheduling for AMD Threadripper and EPYC NUMA.
* New Timer API for addons.
https://docs.blender.org/api/blender2.8/bpy.app.timers.html
* Workbench studio lights were changed from HDRIs to 4 distant lights, have
preset support, and now use PBR materials.
* Cycles: new runtime profiler that measures time spent in various parts of
the CPU kernel.
* Annotations have onion skinning support again, useful for animation notes.

3) Other Projects

* New skin for the developer wiki is coming.
https://developer.blender.org/T57987#566007
* Meeting notes are now posted on devtalk:
https://devtalk.blender.org/c/blender/meeting-notes

4) Weekly Reports

* Bastien:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Mont29/Foundation/2018#Week_272_-_11.2F24_to_11.2F30
* Brecht:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Brecht/Reports/2018#November_24_-_28
* Campbell:
https://download.blender.org/ftp/ideasman42/donelist/2018.html#week-302-month-26
* Clément:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Hypersomniac/Foundation/2018#Week_99_:_26th_-_2nd_Dec
* Dalai: https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Dfelinto/Reports/2018
* Jacques: https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:JacquesLucke/Reports/2018
* Philipp: https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:PhilippOeser/Foundation/2018
* Sergey:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Sergey/Foundation/2018#Week_363:_26th_November_-_2nd_December