[Bf-committers] Blender developers meeting notes - 2018-09-03 committers

[Brecht Van Lommel]

Hi all,

Here are the notes from today's developer meeting. Next meeting is Monday,
10 September 10:00 CEST (8:00 UTC).

1) Blender 2.8

* Work continues towards beta, main focus is on working through the many to
do items and bug reports.
* Luca added new Cloth angular bending model, see
https://developer.blender.org/T56596
* Grease Pencil now has an armature modifier.

Weekly Reports
* Bastien:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Mont29/Foundation/2018#Week_259_-_08.2F25_to_08.2F31
* Brecht:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Brecht/Reports/2018#August_27_-_31
* Campbell:
http://download.blender.org/ftp/ideasman42/donelist/2018.html#week-288-august-20
* Clément:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Hypersomniac/Foundation/2018#Week_86_:_27th_-_2nd_Sept
* Dalai:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Dfelinto/Reports/2018#August_27_-_31
* Sergey:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Sergey/Foundation/2018#Week_352:_27th_August_-_2nd_September

2) Other Projects

* Library upgrade for Windows and Linux buildbot/releases is completed.
* macOS and install_deps script to be handled by Arto and Bastien
respectively.
* Cycles got to BVH8 support to speed up ray tracing on modern CPUs,
contributed by Intel.