[Bf-committers] Meeting

Hi all, Here are the notes from today's 14 UTC Sunday meeting in irc.freenode.net #blendercoders. 1) Planning for next 2.78 release https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Doc/Projects#2.7x_release_cycle - Meeting agrees to stay in bcon2 one more week, to allow some projects in review to get in master. Final decision (go/no-go) should happen early next week. - Grease Pencil 2: review goes well so far, remains a candidate for next release. - Basic Alembic support: review goes on by Campbell Barton, Sergey Sharybin will also have a look, remains a candidate for next release. - VR/OpenHMD: Status is not clear, need some feedback from Joey Ferwerda. - Animation System part 3: Status is not clear, need some feedback from Joshua Leung. - Brecht van Lommel reports Cycles' Microdisplacement will only go partially (safe parts) in master, and will be "hidden" as experimental feature. - Reminder: we need everybody's help to fill in the release notes, all devs please check you noted all your significant changes there, users can help too! :) - Sergey Sharybin: OpenSubDiv now supports subdivision of UVs in texture and material display modes. 2) Blender 2.8 project and other future projects - Lukas Toenne keeps working on Object Nodes branch, he merged in his GPU hair calculation: http://www.pasteall.org/pic/105344 - Ton Roosendaal is in North America, he was in Toronto to visit Tangent Animation studio, a big full-Blender studio which will support the Blender Institute to hire two devs full time to work on Blender 2.8, and a third one for Cycles. - Siggraph is not finished yet! But we are already close to reaching the "critical mass" of full timers needed to make blender2.8 real. - Also, there's a proposal to have a dedicated session about Cycles development during next Blender Conference. 3) GSoC - Some students have/will be less active these weeks, due to exams - this is taken into account. - There is still three more weeks of coding before pencil down and final evaluations start. Thanks, Bastien