1) Blender 2.79 targets

See the targets list: https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.7
Still need to get reviews done... everyone's very busy with other tasks too.
So, next week another attempt to freeze the targets for 2.79!

2) Blender 2.8x projects

Most of the full-time Blender developers joined the OpenGL migration project, to make sure Blender can work with OpenGL 3.3 "Core Profile". This will take at least another week.
Antonio Vazquez reports he's almost done with conversion of grease pencil to new draw manager.

3) Other projects

Google Summer of Code: tomorrow Google will start allocating the slots for orgs. This we will know on wednesday. We then have until April 24 to make a final selection. On May 4 Google will publish the results. Until then we can't share info about slots or students.

1) Blender 2.79 targets

- The targets list:
https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.7

- Reviewing continued last week (for Denoise and OpenHMD), but there's no final result to mention.

- Meeting agrees we should really release early July (benefits SIGGRAPH promotion).
That means early June testbuilds, and early May freezing the targets.

- So, next week Sunday we do another attempt to freeze the targets for 2.79!

2) Blender 2.8 project

- Mike Erwin: all platforms are now working with GL core profile, still plenty of small changes are needed.

- Julian Eisel: Workspace patch is pending review for 2.8 merge still https://developer.blender.org/D2451
Campbell Barton will check on it.

- Work on dependency graph and new modifiers code stalled last week, Sergey Sharybin was needed to
solve errors with SSS rendering.
Blender Institute is finishing another short, crunchtime = bugs squashing time!

3) Other projects

- Nothing to mention really, aside of that we will need to do a massive bug tracker fixing campaign soon!

1) Blender 2.79 targets

- The targets list:
https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.7

- The PBVH vertex/weight paint branch will be applied after release.

- "Filmic Blender" OpenColorIO config... Sergey Sharybin will ask Brecht van Lommel.
It's just not trivial to do in nice backward compatible ways. OCIO lib needs update as well.

- Head mounted display (openhmd support) will stay in a branch for a while. That enables the
team to keep updating frequently this year, without depending on releases. Branch + binaries
will be promoted on blender.org.

- We do another attempt to move to BCon3 (testing/fixing period) next week!

- (Added issue) we will need a splash for 2.79! Suggestion: ask the studio of Blender Institute
to make one based on latest open movie short "Agent 327", which will release in May.

2) Blender 2.8

- There was not much news to mention. Most work that's being done is very technical.
(OpenGL porting).

- Old "texface" might go completely, still problems with particles for it.

3) Other projects

- This Thursday Google will announce the students who get a summer of code grant.

1) Blender 2.79 release

- We shall be doing another testbuild this week, enough bugs were fixed
already to be worth it.

- Release log is still in progress, needs love.
https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/D...ase_Notes/2.79

- Tracker, tracker, tracker! We have too much bugs open, even some
untriaged/ unchecked ones still.
https://developer.blender.org/maniph...ug/query/open/

- It's also important to tag as such regressions (i.e. bugs introduced
in master, that were not present in latest official stable release, and
that affect already existing features, not new ones). Those are show
stoppers for release.

2) The Blender 2.8 project

- Sergey Sharybin will be back working on CoW/DEG (Copy on Write and
depsgraph) topics (they are hidden behind build option in current
blender2.8 branch), modifiers etc. should be fully working with Eevee soon!

- Tristan Porteries wrote to the bf-committers mailing list a proposal
of integration between BGE and Eevee, everyone interested is welcome to
check on it.
https://lists.blender.org/pipermail/...ly/048473.html

- Campbell Barton did a fix in our internal OpenGL code handling (the
"batches creation"), things are now 10x faster when e.g. switching to
Edit mode, it?s now at least as quick as in 2.7x series.

- The bug that was affecting some old graphic cards (the ones that
couldn't do more than opengl 3.3) on Windows has been fixed, users on
that kind of configurations can hence resume testing Blender2.8 daily
builds from the buildbot.
https://builder.blender.org/download

- The grease pencil team will publish updated docs this week.

Some important notes:
- 2.8 bug reports are still accumulating, do not forget tracker for 2.8
branch as well! As a reminder, this is mostly used by developers to keep
track of known issues and TODO's for now, user should typically not
report 2.8 bugs yet.
- If you are interested in 2.8 progress do not forget the mailing lists,
especially bf-viewport one.

3) GSoC and other projects

- Summer of code: First evaluations are now done and complete, Google
will announce the results.

- Usual reminder to all users interested in some GSoC project(s) to test
students work sooner than later.

That?s it for this week,
Thanks,
Bastien