Blender developers meeting notes - 2018-01-02

Here are the notes from today's 18 UTC meeting in irc.freenode.net
​#​blendercoders. Reminder: meetings are on Mondays now, next meeting is 8
Jan, 9 UTC (10 CET). This one was on Tuesday exceptionally due to the
holidays.

Dalai Felinto writes:

1) Blender 2.79a

• We expect a test build to be announced next week for people to test it.
• Brecht Van Lommel suggests (in mailing list) for future releases to have
  a bug-fix branch from beginning.
• A list of commits to be included was sent to the corresponding mailing
  lists (bf-committers and bf-python). And the 2.79a brach was created with
  them already.
• Bastien Montage wants to check with Sergey Sharybin and Campbell Barton
  to be sure conflicting commits were merged properly. This will have to wait
  until Friday.

2) Blender 2.8 projects

• Clément Foucalt is working again on Eevee bug fixes, with focus on OpenGL
  rendering.
• Antonio Vazquez is implementing a new Grease Pencil fill tool:

[note for developers, remember to use Blender Developers channel when
possible - it also helps]

• Dalai Felinto has been working on collection editing. Feedback is welcome for the changes already committed.
• Ton Roosendaal will ask Pablo Vazquez and other UI/UX designers to help
  the asset project to deliver more tangible results.
• Many developers were away last week due to holidays. Development should
  be fully resumed throughout this week.
• There are still 2.8 areas that are open issues such as workbench engine
  and workspace. Next week we should check the planning for January-March to
  make sure everyone know what to do and to be sure all the main projects are
  tackled.

3) Other projects

• Philipp Oeser (lichtwerk) accepted a grant to work this month on triaging
  in tracker.
• Holiday season reports: Blender 2.8 Xmas Report and Blender Projects in 2018 to look forward to.
• Google Summer of Code starts soon. Organizations applications start on
  January 4th.
• Blender Foundation had a generous donation, DELL servers. We will have
  two new Linux servers next week ready for the "onboarding" discourse
  installation"

4) Weekly reports

• Bastien Montagne
• Dalai Felinto

Best regards,
Dalai