[Bf-committers] Blender developers meeting notes - 2019-1-7

[Brecht Van Lommel]

Hi all,

Here are the notes from today's developer meeting. Next meeting is Monday,
14 January 10:00 CET / 9:00 UTC.

1) New Features and Changes

The focus continues to be on getting Blender 2.8 stable. Approximately 75
bugs were fixed in the last week.

* Preferences have been redesigned, with a better organization that makes
it much easier to find settings.
https://developer.blender.org/T54115
* NLA blending of rotation now used proper interpolation of quaternions.
Another step towards making the NLA editor work well in production.
* Viewport: updated default HDRIs. Added city, courtyard and interior,
replaced grass field and night with different images.
* Icon set was updated, particularly editor icons.
* 2D animation template was updated with changes to properties layout,
brush and material settings, and more.

2) Development

*  clang-format is planned to be used for formatting all C/C++ code in
Blender. This will be a disruptive change as all patches and branches will
need (automatable) updates. But in the long run it will save time and
increase code quality.
https://developer.blender.org/T53211
* Proposal to close many mailing lists that are no longer actively used.
https://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-committers/2019-January/049742.html

3) Weekly Reports

* Brecht:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Brecht/Reports/2019#December_31_-_January_4
* Campbell:
https://download.blender.org/ftp/ideasman42/donelist/2018.html#week-306-december-31
* Dalai:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Dfelinto/Reports/2019#January_1_-_4
* Philip: https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:PhilippOeser/Foundation/2019
* Sebastian: https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Zeddb#December_31_-_Jan_4
* Sergey:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Sergey/Foundation/2018#Week_367:_31st_-_6th_January