2024-06-11 Projects Updates

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As part of our efforts to organize the development team more efficiently, weekly meetings are now being held with project leads and development manager and coordinator.

June 21st, 2024
Attendees: Clément Foucault, Dalai Felinto, Falk David, Fiona Cohen, Jeroen Bakker, Sergey Sharybin, Thomas Dinges

Projects:

  • Baklava > Sybren (not present)

  • Brush Assets > @dfelinto

    • 4.3 target
    • Last round of feedback from Julien K on 20/06
    • Still missing documentation, @julianeisel will work on that, maybe @HooglyBoogly can help too
    • Will be ready for main in a couple of weeks

  • Eevee Next > @fclem

    • In main, documentation is done
    • Bug fixing in progress
    • Unknowns regarding Metal support: issues with that backend remain, which means that @Jeroen-Bakker has to spend time on it
    • Clement will keep focusing on addressing feedback and bug reports (Q3)

    NPR project with @pragma37 > have a one week workshop soon, in July or August?

    • To discuss and organize

  • Extensions > Dalai

    • Release ready
    • Still fixes to do for 4.2, but not concerned about stability
    • Concern about getting everything ready for bcon3 mid-July (documentation, translation…)
    • The multi-OS support is being implemented (website side)
    • @ideasman42 is still going to work on some tech debt (bug fix) for the next weeks,could be for later versions
    • What’s packaged with Blender, ‘core addons’: see dev talk feedback thread
      • If modules have a solid case for something to be added, then it can be added

  • Grease Pencil 3 > @filedescriptor

  • Sculpting > @sergey

    • In progress, with @HooglyBoogly, @Sean-Kim and @farsthary
    • Working on making more tests automated
    • Currently ‘only’ 6x faster, not yet 10x (for the base mesh sculpting)
    • Focusing on that refactor and speeding up, hopefully done by mid-July
    • Then do dynamic topology pt2

  • Vulkan > @Jeroen-Bakker

    • All Q2 goals were met + extended goals (make Eevee to work)
    • See if industry contributor want to join and contribute to this project
    • Goals for Q3: stabilize & improve to make Vulkan available in an official release. See all plan in Vulkan Planning
    • Notes on ‘Out of scope’: do one project to get OpenSubdiv to work on both Metal and Vulkan

Next meeting on Friday June 28th.

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EDIT 18/07 - this post was copied to its own thread, and each meeting will get its own separate post from now on.

July 5th, 2024
Attendees: @dfelinto @filedescriptor @FoxGlove @Jeroen-Bakker @sergey @sybren @ThomasDinges

Projects

  • Baklava > Sybren

    • Working on finishing phase 1 > aiming for end of Q3

  • Brush Assets > Dalai

    • Almost ready to merge
    • Blog post ready to publish

  • Eevee Next > Clément (not present)

    • industry contributor is looking into issue on Metal
    • NPR workshop (online) > to plan for end of July, tbc, Jeroen on holiday then

  • Extensions > Dalai

    • Last feature almost ready to merge (proper multiple OS support)
    • To discuss: ‘Bone Selection Set’ to add an extension to core addon

  • Grease Pencil 3 > Falk

    • working on feature parity for end of August (bcon 2 of 4.3)

  • Sculpting > Sergey

    • Technical debt etc > 8 brushes left out of the 32
    • Working on more speed for making a stroke on a mesh, goal is 10x

  • Vulkan > Jeroen

During this meeting we also discussed the role of a project lead

Action items

  • @sergey to nudge Intel for Vulkan, next week during monthly meeting
  • @fclem to clarify organization of NPR workshop
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This seems to be notes from July 5th, not June 11th?

Ah never mind, did not realized that this was not the original post, but an answer :sweat_smile: