[Bf-committers] Blender developers meeting notes - 2019-03-04

[Brecht Van Lommel]

Hi all,

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

1) New Features and Changes

About 85 bugs were fixed last week.

* Grease pencil gained support for wireframe mode, direct selection in the
3D viewport without the dummy, a new stroke trim tool, and various
usability tweaks and optimizations. (Antonio Vazquez)
* 3D cursor rotation can now be edited in the 3D view sidebar. (Hans
Goudey, Campbell Barton)
* Outliner can now duplicate collections with objects included. (Dalai
Felinto)
* Object visibility can be animated again. (Sergey Sharybin)
* Armature wireframe drawing is supported again. (Clément Foucault)
* Texture paint bleeding has been improved, solving spiky artifacts that
existed before. (Luca Rood)
* .blend file loading has been improved by 18% in some production files.
(Campbell Barton)

2) Development
* Blender got accepted to participate in Google Summer of Code again.
Students are welcome to ask questions on devtalk.blender.org or the
bf-committers mailing list:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/GSoC
https://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-committers/2019-February/049856.html

3) Weekly Reports

* Bastien: https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Mont29/Foundation/2019
* Brecht:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Brecht/Reports/2019#February_25_-_March_1
* Campbell:
https://download.blender.org/ftp/ideasman42/donelist/2019.html#week-314-february-25
* Clément:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Hypersomniac/Foundation/2019#Week_112_:_25th_-_3rd_Mar
* Jacques:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:JacquesLucke/Reports/2019#Week_22:_February_25_-_01
* Jeroen: https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Jbakker/reports/2019
* Dalai:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Dfelinto/Reports/2019#February_25_-_March_1
* Philipp:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:PhilippOeser/Foundation/2019#Calendar_Week_9_.28Feb_25th_-_Mar_1st.29
* Sebastian: https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Zeddb#February_25_-_March_1
* Sergey:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Sergey/Foundation/2019#Week_375:_25th_February_-_3rd_March