[Bf-committers] Blender Developer Meeting Notes 18 November 2019

[Nathan 'jesterKing' Letwory]

Notes for meeting of Monday, 18 November 10:00 CET / 9:00 UTC on
#blender-coders on blender.chat.

Blender 2.81
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* Remaining non-showstopper bugs moved from 2.81 to 2.82
  workboard.
* Note to all devs: no commits to blender-v2.81-release branch,
  unless for a scheduled critical bug.
* Landing of splash, tagging and Ahoy on Wednesday November 20th.
  Release will happen later in the afternoon.
* Windows builds will be created on the buildbot, including
  signing. MacOS builds will be signed still out-of-buildbot.

Blender 2.82
============

* Proposals and patches for new features should be submitted and
  handled by December 12th, 2019.
* MantaFlow and LANPR are in good shape, but need still help to
  get through the review process so that patches can land.
* Undo speed-up (re-)using depsgraph progressing.
* Library overrides get improvements.
* Assets may get some partial patches applied.
* GPencil improvements.
* Sculpting improvements.
* Integrate rest of buildbot release building features
  (codesigning, notarization).

Changes And New Features
========================

Blender 2.81
------------

* A dozen fixes.

Blender 2.82
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* Add TBB allocator support on Windows. (Ray Molenkamp)
* GPencil MultiStroke Modifier that creates multiple strokes
  around original stroke. (Yiming Wu, Antonio Vazquez)

Have a good week!

/Nathan Letwory