[Bf-committers] Blender developers meeting notes - 2018-10-22

[Brecht Van Lommel]

Hi all,

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

1) Blender 2.8

* Work continues towards the beta, an update on the current status will be
posted on the code blog and presented at Blender Conference.

* There were many fixes to work around graphics driver bugs. If you had
issues before, try again with the latest builds.
* Drag and drop improvements:
** Open/Link/Append menu when dropping .blend file.
** Various usability improvements to dropping objects in collections.
* Multi objects pose editing is now complete.
* Grease pencil now works together with particles better.
* Shrinkwrap modifier and constraint can now use smooth normals.
* Various icons were updated based on user feedback, more to come.
* Static overrides will be postponed to 2.81, this feature hasn't had
enough testing to be considered ready for general use in time for the beta.

Weekly Reports:
* Bastien:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Mont29/Foundation/2018#Week_266_-_10.2F13_to_10.2F19
* Brecht:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Brecht/Reports/2018#October_15_-_19
* Campbell:
http://download.blender.org/ftp/ideasman42/donelist/2018.html#week-296-october-15
* Clément:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Hypersomniac/Foundation/2018#Week_93_:_16th_-_21th_Oct
* Dalai:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Dfelinto/Reports/2018#October_15_-_19
* Jacques:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:JacquesLucke/Reports/2018#Week_5:_October_15_-_19
* Philipp:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:PhilippOeser/Foundation/2018#Week_42_.28Oct_15th_-_Oct_19th.29

2) Other Projects

* The new development fund is up:
https://fund.blender.org/
* A long time bug that was randomly corrupting .blend file library links
was finally identified and fixed. It was Ctrl+C (Copy Objects to Buffer)
causing problems.