[Bf-committers] Blender developers meeting notes - 2019-06-17

Brecht Van Lommel brechtvanlommel at gmail.com
Mon Jun 17 18:06:21 CEST 2019


Hi all,

Here are the notes from today's developer meeting. Next meeting is
Monday, 24 June 18:00 CEST / 10:00 UTC, in #blender-coders on
blender.chat.

1) Development

* We will aim for a 2.80 release candidate around July 11, 3 weeks
from now. After the release candidate only important bug fixes would
go in, with every commit carefully checked. This will also give us the
opportunity to test making the release build with all platform
maintainers.
* Much of the Blender manual was updated last week, but still about
another week of work remains. For anyone interested in helping out,
there are still a few chapters without anyone assigned, and many of
chapters where screenshots need to be updated.
https://developer.blender.org/T65710

2) New Features and Changes

No new features now that we are getting close to the release. About 90
bugs were fixed last week.

3) Summer of Code

Here's an overview of Summer of Code progress so far. Some of the
projects have features available for testing.
* Outliner: improved selection and navigation tools, start of 3D
viewport synced selection, and many other improvements. (Nathan
Craddock)
https://devtalk.blender.org/t/gsoc-2019-outliner-weekly-reports/7642
* Procedural texture nodes: improved math, vector math and mapping
nodes. New map range, clamp and white noise nodes. (Omar Ahmad)
https://devtalk.blender.org/t/cycles-eevee-improvements-weekly-reports/7697
* Custom bevel profile: initial implementation of custom profile in
bevel modifier. (Hans Goudey)
https://devtalk.blender.org/t/gsoc-2019-bevel-profiles-weekly-reports/7651
* LANPR: integration with grease pencil, and many other fixes and
tweaks. (Yiming Wu)
https://devtalk.blender.org/t/gsoc-2019-lanpr-development-and-feedbacks/7716
* Fast Import/Export: STL export is working, OBJ is in progress. (Hugo Sales)
https://devtalk.blender.org/t/gsoc-2019-fast-import-and-export-weekly-reports/7694

For other projects work is happening under the hood still:
* Cloth simulation: adaptive mesh subdivision implementation is in
place, to be integrated with the simulation. (Ish Bosamiya)
https://devtalk.blender.org/t/gsoc-2019-cloth-simulator-improvement-weekly-reports/7726
* Embree: initial implementation of conversion from Embree to Cycles
BVH, performance benefits will come once this is more complete.
(Quentin Matillat)
https://devtalk.blender.org/t/embree-for-gpu-weekly-reports/7703
* VR: lots of low-level work to integrate OpenXR into Blender's
windowing system. (Julian Eisel)
https://devtalk.blender.org/t/gsoc-2019-vr-support-through-openxr-weekly-reports/7665

4) Weekly Reports

* Bastien: https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Mont29/Foundation/2019#Week_300_-_06.2F08_to_06.2F14
* Brecht: https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Brecht/Reports/2019#Jun_10_-_14
* Campbell: https://download.blender.org/ftp/ideasman42/donelist/2019.html#week-330-june-10
* Clément: https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Hypersomniac/Foundation/2019#Week_126_:_10th_-_16th_June
* Dalai: https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Dfelinto/Reports/2019#June_10_-_14
* Jacques: https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:JacquesLucke/Reports/2019#Week_37:_June_10_-_14
* Jeroen: https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Jbakker/reports/2019
* Philipp: https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:PhilippOeser/Foundation/2019#Calendar_Week_24_.285hrs.29
* Sebastian: https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Zeddb#Jun_10_-_Jun_14
* Sergey: https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Sergey/Foundation/2019#Week_390:_10th_-_16th_June


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