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

Howard Trickey howard.trickey at gmail.com
Tue Dec 11 18:22:44 CET 2018


It appears that close to every page that has a UI component to it will need
changes for 2.8, because of changes in shortcuts, menu paths, and shelves
where things live. This is a massive amount of work and mostly pretty
mechanical (though not particularly easy to automate). Is someone working
on all of those changes, or do we need a big infusion of volunteers to do
that?

On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 12:19 PM Brecht Van Lommel <
brechtvanlommel at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 7:45 PM Aaron Carlisle <carlisle.b3d at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Some might have noticed some work has been started on documentation.
> > The past couple of weeks have been busy but I am planning to spend
> > a lot of time on this over my holiday break. I am just writing this so
> that
> > people know what is going on.
> >
>
> Sounds great!
>
> We could do a call for documentation contributors at some point? Though
> that will also be some work to manage.
>
>
> > Also there are lots of bugs and patches opened for features
> > that are now obsolete, when is the plan to close all these?
> >
>
> Are you referring to documentation specific ones? You can close any that
> you think are no longer relevant or will be acted upon.
>
> For Blender development tasks we follow the same rule, not sure when it
> will all be updated. I close ones that I encounter, but some time needs to
> be made to go through them all.
>
> Regards,
> Brecht.
>
>
>
>
> > Best,
> >
> > Aaron Carlisle
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 1:20 PM Brecht Van Lommel <
> > brechtvanlommel at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Here are the notes from today's developer meeting. Next meeting is
> > Monday,
> > > 17 December 10:00 CET / 9:00 UTC.
> > >
> > > 1) New Features and Changes
> > >
> > > This week was mostly about bug triaging and fixing. By my estimate
> about
> > > 120 bugs were fixed this week.
> > >
> > > * Cycles GPU rendering now has support for NVIDIA Turing cards (RTX
> 20xx
> > > and similar). Note this is using CUDA still, not the raytracing
> hardware
> > > units at this point.
> > > * Cycles OpenCL rendering on macOS is no longer supported:
> > >
> >
> https://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-committers/2018-December/049695.html
> > > * Animated values that have been modified but not keyframed now get an
> > > orange button color.
> > > * Render metadata now has an option to include the hostname, useful for
> > > render farms.
> > > * Shader node editor now includes materials settings panels, so all
> > > material work can be done in one editor.
> > > * Wireframe drawing got many optimizations, both for faster drawing of
> > > heavy scenes and when using low end hardware.
> > > * Grease Pencil has a new arc primitive tool.
> > >
> > > 2) Merging Branches
> > >
> > > The proposal is to do the following:
> > > * Rename master to blender2.7 branch, blender2.8 to master.
> > > * All git history is kept, since it is valuable even if it makes bisect
> > > harder.
> > > * "BF Blender 2.8" bugs will be moved to "BF Blender", to have a single
> > > tracker. These are already quite mixed up anyway.
> > > * We keep supporting blender2.7 to more or less the same (minimum)
> level
> > as
> > > we do master now, to ensure there is a production-ready Blender version
> > > being maintained.
> > > * The blender2.8 branch could be deleted and blocked from being
> recreated
> > > on the git server? To avoid users and developers using the wrong branch
> > by
> > > accident.
> > >
> > > If any developers disagree with this, let's discuss it. Otherwise,
> we'll
> > do
> > > the merge in the coming week or two.
> > >
> > > 3) Other Projects
> > >
> > > The developer wiki has a new theme:
> > > https://wiki.blender.org
> > >
> > > 4) Team
> > >
> > > Sebastian Parborg started this week, helping with bug triaging and
> > fixing.
> > > Welcome!
> > >
> > > 5) Weekly Reports
> > >
> > > * Bastien:
> > >
> > >
> >
> https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Mont29/Foundation/2018#Week_273_-_12.2F01_to_12.2F07
> > > * Brecht:
> > > https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Brecht/Reports/2018#December_3_-_7
> > > * Campbell:
> > >
> > >
> >
> https://download.blender.org/ftp/ideasman42/donelist/2018.html#week-303-december-3
> > > * Clément:
> > >
> > >
> >
> https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Hypersomniac/Foundation/2018#Week_100_:_3rd_-_9th_Dec
> > > * Dalai:
> > >
> https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Dfelinto/Reports/2018#December_3_-_7
> > > * Jacques:
> > >
> > >
> >
> https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:JacquesLucke/Reports/2018#Week_12:_December_3-7
> > > * Philipp:
> > >
> > >
> >
> https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:PhilippOeser/Foundation/2018#Calendar_Week_49_.28Dec_3rd_-_Dec_7th.29
> > > * Sergey:
> > >
> > >
> >
> https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Sergey/Foundation/2018#Week_364:_3d_-_9th_December
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> >
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