[Bf-committers] Blender developers meeting notes - 2019-02-11

[Brecht Van Lommel]

Hi all,

Here are the notes from today's developer meeting. Next meeting is Monday,
18 February 18:00 CET / 17:00 UTC.

1) New Features and Changes

About 65 bugs were fixed last week.

* Edit mode wireframe drawing has been improved, to be more crisp and
better anti-aliased. (Clément Foucault)
* Outliner collection and object visibility have been revamped. (Dalai
Felinto)
* Bevel: better attachment points for unbeveled edges, arc miter. (Howard
Trickey)
* Image, movie clip and sequence editors can now show all image metadata.
(Sergey Sharybin)

2) Development
* Automated testing: a new system for event simulation was added, for
automated tests that are otherwise difficult to write. This used for
testing texture paint and sculpt mode undo currently. (Campbell Barton)
* Removing fake user and automatic datablock deletion when users count
drops to zero is being discussed. The Purge unused data operator has been
improved. (Bastien Montagne)
https://developer.blender.org/T61209
* DNA Renaming: structs and members saved to .blend file currently cannot
be renamed easily, which over time has lead to names getting out of sync
with the UI and leaving in poorly chosen names. A new patch adds support
for renaming. (Campbell Barton)
https://developer.blender.org/D4330
* Cycles OpenCL compile time reduction is being worked on, starting with
multithreaded compilation and gathering statistics. (Jeroen Bakker)
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Jbakker/projects/CyclesOpenCL2019

3) Weekly Reports
* Bastien:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Mont29/Foundation/2019#Week_282_-_02.2F02_to_02.2F08
* Brecht:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Brecht/Reports/2019#February_5_-_8
* Campbell:
https://download.blender.org/ftp/ideasman42/donelist/2019.html#week-311-february-4
* Clément:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Hypersomniac/Foundation/2019#Week_109_:_4th_-_10th_Feb
* Dalai:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Dfelinto/Reports/2019#February_4_-_8
* Jacques:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:JacquesLucke/Reports/2019#Week_19:_February_04_-_08
* Jeroen:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Jbakker/reports/2019#Week_201906:_2019.2F02.2F04_-_2019.2F02.2F10
* Philipp:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:PhilippOeser/Foundation/2019#Calendar_Week_6_.28Feb_4th_-_Feb_8th.29
* Sebastian: https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Zeddb#February_4_-_8
* Sergey:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Sergey/Foundation/2019#Week_372:_4rd_-_10th_February