[Bf-committers] Blender developers meeting notes - 2018-07-30

[Brecht Van Lommel]

Hi all,

Here are the notes from today's developer meeting. Next meeting is Monday,
6 August 18:00 CEST (16:00 UTC).

1) Blender 2.8

* Grease Pencil merge is imminent, Antonio and the grease pencil team
coordinate to have videos ready to go when it happens. Latest new grease
pencil feature is a paper grid background.

* Bug tracker work continues, Bastien handles general triaging, Clément
works on OpenGL and Eevee stability on different graphics cards and
platforms.

* Work continues on subsurf/multires, outliner and collections, and the
tool system targets for the next Blender 2.8 Alpha/Beta release.

* Pablo and William decide on default matcaps and workspaces, to be
committed soon.

* Vuk Gardašević improved properties editor layouts for physics and
textures.

* Video about recent 2.8 development:
https://youtu.be/jxltyYulyDE

* Weekly reports:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Hypersomniac/Foundation/2018#Week_81_:_23rd_-_29th_July
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Sergey/Foundation/2018#Week_347:_23rd_-_29th_July
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Mont29/Foundation/2018#Week_254_-_07.2F21_to_07.2F27
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Aligorith/Foundation/2018#July_23_-_July_27
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Brecht/Reports/2018#July_23

2) Summer of Code

* It's the last week of coding.

* Weekly reports:
https://lists.blender.org/pipermail/soc-2018-dev/2018-July/000159.html
https://lists.blender.org/pipermail/soc-2018-dev/2018-July/000160.html
https://lists.blender.org/pipermail/soc-2018-dev/2018-July/000161.html
https://lists.blender.org/pipermail/soc-2018-dev/2018-July/000162.html

3) Other Projects

* master builds on Linux will require C+11 starting this week, to prepare
for library updates. Running install_deps.sh to rebuild dependencies with
C++11 may be required. Blender 2.8 and Linux/macOS already needed it.