[Bf-committers] Blender developers meeting notes - 2018-07-23

[Brecht Van Lommel]

1) Blender 2.8

* Plan is still to work towards the beta milestone:
https://developer.blender.org/T55674

* We are behind schedule a bit though, for SIGGRAPH it may be more like an
Alpha 2 or a Beta with some of the targets postponed, Brecht will update
the planning task.

* UDIM patch initial feature set is finished, awaiting review:
https://developer.blender.org/D3509

* Weekly reports:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Mont29/Foundation/2018#Week_252_.26_253_-_07.2F07_to_07.2F20
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Brecht/Reports/2018#July_16
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Hypersomniac/Foundation/2018#Week_80_:_16th_-_22th_July
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Sergey/Foundation/2018#Week_346:_16th_-_22nd_July

2) Summer of Code

Two weeks until end of coding period and final evaluations. Mentors are
encouraged to do code reviews, students can focus on getting projects into
a finished state.

* Weekly reports:
https://lists.blender.org/pipermail/soc-2018-dev/2018-July/000136.html
https://lists.blender.org/pipermail/soc-2018-dev/2018-July/000137.html
https://lists.blender.org/pipermail/soc-2018-dev/2018-July/000138.html
https://lists.blender.org/pipermail/soc-2018-dev/2018-July/000139.html
https://lists.blender.org/pipermail/soc-2018-dev/2018-July/000141.html

3) Other Projects

* Upgrade to Visual Studio 2017 is complete, VS 2013 is no longer supported
now.
* macOS buildbot is still down: it will be back, moving to a new machine.
* Library updates are needed, see other bf-committers mail for organization.