Blender developer week notes - 2021.10.18

Hi all,

Here are the compiled notes for this week's development. For the complete
report with modules and projects updates, links and images read it on:
https://devtalk.blender.org/t/18-october-2021/20843

Announcements
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* Apple joined the development fund [1] and is contributing a Metal backend
for Cycles [2].

Welcomes
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* Michael Jones from Apple now has commit rights to the Blender repository
to work on this project. Welcome!

Blender 3.0 bcon3
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* Dalai Felinto proposed (in #blender-coders) to move bcon3 to a week
later, on October 27.
* Bastien Montagne proposed instead to move the incomplete targets to 3.1
instead.
* They will talk on Tuesday, October 19, and will report back.
* Meanwhile, if anyone else has a new point to make please do it here in
bf-committers or in #blender-coders (tagging @dfelinto).

[1] - https://www.blender.org/press/apple-joins-blender-development-fund/
[2] - https://developer.blender.org/T92212

-Dalai-
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Dalai Felinto - [email protected] - www.blender.org
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