Hi all, Here are the notes from today's 15 UTC meeting in irc.freenode.net #blendercoders.
*** NOTE: next week 25 December we skip the meeting. Sunday 1 January we meet as usual. 1) Blender 2.8 projects - We have a viewport project plan! For discussions, use the blog on https://code.blender.org or read the wiki doc: https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.8/Source/Viewport/PlanOfAction - Clement Foucault made a GLSL api design doc for new viewport, gets reviewed by Brecht van Lommel now, and then gets published next week. - Migration plan for viewport in 2.8 branch is (in short): (1) Finish render-layers (2) Depsgraph iterator to provide generic access to Objects with their data; (3) New API for viewport, to use new Object access and Engines/Pass drawing structure (4) Start with new viewport code directory, and migrate old drawing code over piece by piece Expectation is that (4) starts in the 2nd half of January. - Workflow and 101 docs are almost done, will be there in a couple of days. - Bastien Montagne made a first version of override system. https://developer.blender.org/D2417 - Sergey Sharybin worked on task scheduler for Dependency updates. Less fine grained, faster. 2) Other projects - Google Summer of Code students have updated status here: https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/GoogleSummerOfCode/2016 All students are welcome to stay involved. Use the GSoC mailing list to ask for reviews or info. - In 2017 we'll discuss release planning. There has been a request to update the release for blender-cycles, for the various Cuda/Opencl/Intel fixes. - Antonio Vazquez is working moving palettes from grease pencil to Blender palettes. Design doc for Grease Pencil update will be published mid January. Happy holidays! -Ton- -------------------------------------------------------- Ton Roosendaal - [email protected] - www.blender.org Chairman Blender Foundation, Director Blender Institute Entrepotdok 57A, 1018 AD, Amsterdam, the Netherlands _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
