[Bf-committers] Blender developer meeting notes - 2020.5.25

[Dalai Felinto]

Hi all,

Here are the notes from today's developer meeting. Next meeting is
Monday, 1 May 11:00 CEST / 9:00 UTC, in #blender-coders on
blender.chat.

For the complete report read it on:
https://devtalk.blender.org/t/25-may-2020/13239

Announcements
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* Bug sprint fortnight [1] is over, with 232 fix commits (over 128
from previous 2 weeks).

2.83
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* bcon4 on Wednesday, May 27th.
* There are still 8 bugs tagged as 2.83 (5 high priority).
* Pablo Vazquez reminds developers to fill in their release notes [2].
Some features are missing examples and link to commit (e.g., Cycles
and UI).

User Interface
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* The viewport "edit-mode" cursor change was reverted (219ce574).
* It can be revisited for 2.90 with a more comprehensive big picture.
* Besides tools, Dalai Felinto suggests that status bar, and modifiers
designs also to be cleared up for 2.90.
* Julian Eisel suggests wrapping up the 2.8 open tasks as the main
goal for the UI team during the 2.90 release series.

2.90
====
* Dalai Felinto suggests wrapping up the 2.8 project by moving/writing
the latest design docs to the development wiki [3].

Google Summer of Code
=====================
* "Regression Testing Frameworks" project started [4], but it will
resume only next week.

Others
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* Dalai Felinto renamed "Quick Hacks" into "Good First Issue" [5].

[1] - https://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-committers/2020-May/050574.html
[2] - https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Reference/Release_Notes/2.83
[3] - https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Source
[4] - https://devtalk.blender.org/t/gsoc-2020-regression-testing-framework-weekly-reports/13389
[5] - https://developer.blender.org/project/view/34/

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