[Bf-committers] Developer meeting 13 January 2020 - notes

[Nathan 'jesterKing' Letwory]

Notes for meeting of Monday, 13 January 2020. 10:00 CET / UTC 9:00
in #blender-coders on blender.chat.

Blender 2.82
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* As part of maintenance ensure 2.81 and 2.81a are properly
  tagged. After that the old 2.81 stabilizing branch can be
  dropped.
* Linux archive name will be simplified to
  `blender-$version$-linux64.tar.gz`, dropping the modifiers
  `glibc217` and  `x86_64`.
* Sergey Sharybin will see to it Mantaflow gets fixed by Sebastián
  Barschkis.

Blender 2.83
============

* Antonio Vazquez is working on Grease Pencil refactor. As part of
  this is refactor of area related to datablock evaluation for
  modifiers. He requests help from Sergey Sharybin on this.
* LANPR will be after 2.83.

Other
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* Dalai Felinto would like to move the morning meeting from 10:00
  CET to 11:00 CET. Monday morning meetings will from 27th January
  on be on 11:00 CET (10:00 UTC).

Next meeting is on Monday, 20 January 2020 in #blender-coders on
blender.chat [1].

The full notes and changes is on devtalk [2]



[1] https://blender.chat/channel/blender-coders
[2] https://devtalk.blender.org/t/13-january-2020/11190