[Bf-committers] Blender developer meeting notes - 2020.6.29

[Dalai Felinto]

Hi all,

Here are the notes from today's developer meeting. Next meeting is Monday,
6 July 18:00 CEST / 16:00 UTC, in #blender-coders on blender.chat.

For the complete report read it on:
https://devtalk.blender.org/t/29-june-2020/14022

Announcements
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* Blender 2.83.1 LTS was released with 33 bug fixes.
  * blender.org, Steam and Snap have the builds, MS store is still
processing it.
* Code Quality Day this Friday - 4th/July.
  * Sergey Sharybin will have enough tasks for anyone interested on helping
with clang-tidy.
* LANPR project is now “Line Art”, code refactored for the new naming.
* Grease pencil add-on: Samuel Bernou started working on it. Video or post
to come.

Blender 2.83.1 LTS
===============
* Post-mortem [1], main outcome is that cherry-picking issues is getting
complicated.
* Proposal: original developers to be contacted by the LTS maintainer to
help merging.
* This wasn’t received so well since it will add burden to the core-team.
* There were no conclusions and Dalai Felinto, Jeroen Bakker and Sergey
will discuss this internally.

2.90
===
* Dalai proposes to have a 2-week long bug sprint as part of the regular
release cycle after bcon2.
* There was no consensus on the best way of handling this, if it should be
handled per-module or when to happen.
* A clear proposal will be posted on bf-committers for discussion later.

Google Summer of Code
===================
* This week (29/Jun 18h CEST - 03/Jul 18h CEST) is the first evaluation
period.
* All mentors to fill in their reports.
* Mentors that need help assessing the student work poke Dalai for help.

[1] -
https://devtalk.blender.org/t/2020-6-29-blender-2-83-1-post-mortem/14098

Final note: Nathan Letwory will chair the next two meetings,

-Dalai-
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Dalai Felinto - dalai at blender.org - www.blender.org
Blender Development Coordinator