Blender developers meeting notes - 2018-08-13

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H all,

Here are the notes from today’s developer meeting.

Next meeting is Monday, 20 August 18:00 CEST (16:00 UTC).

1) Blender 2.8

• here’s a new planning, goal is to have a feature complete Beta by the Blender Conference:
  https://code.blender.org/2018/08/blender-2-8-planning-update/

• Blender institute developers will use the workboard again to indicate the main tasks that are planned and being worked on:
  https://developer.blender.org/project/board/80/

• Weekly reports:
  – Campbell:
  http://download.blender.org/ftp/ideasman42/donelist/2018.html#week-286-august-6
  – Clément:
  http://download.blender.org/ftp/ideasman42/donelist/2018.html#week-286-august-6https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Hypersomniac/Foundation/2018%23Week_83_:\_6th_-\_12th_August
  – Sergey:
  https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Sergey/Foundation/2018#Week_349:\_6th_12th_August
  – Bastien:
  https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Mont29/Foundation/2018#Week_256_-\_08.2F04_to_08.2F10
  – Brecht
  https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Brecht/Reports/2018#August_8_-_10

2) Summer of Code

• Final student evaluations are due tomorrow, after that mentors do their final review.

• The bevel modifier improvements and normal editing tools projects were merged this week.

3) Other Projects

• Blender benchmark Beta and opendata.blender.org were released:
  https://opendata.blender.org/

• Library upgrade is ongoing.

• Alexander Gavrilov works on improvements to bones and constraints, please review:
  https://developer.blender.org/D3545
  https://developer.blender.org/D3558
  https://developer.blender.org/D3588
  https://developer.blender.org/D3591