User:ThomasDinges/WeeklyReports/2023

= 2023 =

Calendar Week 1
Jan 2 - Jan 8

Mostly time off.

 General 
 * Posting the weekly notes.
 * Bcon2 for Blender 3.5 is delayed due to pending patches, will be checked on Monday 9th.

Calendar Week 2
Jan 9 - Jan 15

This week I visited the Blender HQ in Amsterdam and had a lot of talks and catching up with everyone. Thanks for having me.

It was also good to evaluate the past year and confirm the goals and responsibilities of my role: Onboarding, release management, module coordination and GSoC. To better summarize this, my formal role is Development Coordinator from now on.

 Development Coordination 
 * Helped people, answered questions and moderated on our platforms (devtalk, developer, chat...)
 * Posted the weekly notes.

 Release Management 
 * Moved to Bcon2 on Tuesday, it was delayed a bit to give more time to Hans and Martijn to merge their patches.
 * Posted an updated policy on handling high priority reports.
 * Checked on all existing high priority reports and asked developers for updates on them.

 Development 
 * : Cycles: Add AVX512 kernel. (WIP)

Calendar Week 3
Jan 16 - Jan 22

 Development Coordination 
 * Helped people, answered questions and moderated on our platforms (devtalk, developer, chat...)
 * Finished and posted the weekly dev notes.
 * Hosted the online kick-off meetings on Monday.

 Release Management 
 * LTS Updates (3.3.3 and 2.93.14) on Tuesday, tested builds, tagged git, updated website...
 * Fixed LTS script generating bad URLs

 Module Coordination 
 * Joined the Sculpt / Paint / Texture module meeting on Tuesday.

 Development 
 * Cleanup: Remove unused light_sample_is_light function.

 Triaging 
 * Closed more than 40 reports that were pending in status "Needs Information from User", most of them since December.

Calendar Week 4
Jan 23 - Jan 29

 Development Coordination 
 * Helped people, answered questions and moderated on our platforms (devtalk, developer, chat...)
 * Finished and posted the weekly dev notes.
 * Hosted the online kick-off meetings on Monday.

 Module Coordination 

To be more visible and approachable, I will regularly join module meetings from now on. Also helps to better stay in the loop of ongoing projects and development.
 * Joined the Eevee/Viewport meeting on Monday.
 * Joined the Grease Pencil meeting on Monday.
 * Joined the Geometry Nodes meeting on Tuesday.
 * Joined the Render & Cycles meeting on Tuesday.

 GSoC 
 * Checked on and updated our wiki docs and ideas page, will submit the organization submission next week.

 Gitea migration 
 * Send mail to bf-commiters about the migration and also the 3.5 release delay.
 * Tested the new site and discussed issues and workflows with others.

Calendar Week 5
Jan 30 - Feb 5

 Development Coordination 
 * Helped people, answered questions and moderated on our platforms (devtalk, developer, chat...)
 * Finished and posted the weekly dev notes.
 * Hosted the online kick-off meetings on Monday.

 GSoC 
 * Submitted the organization application to Google for GSoC 2023.

 Gitea 
 * Tested the new Gitea platform, reported issues, worked on docs...

Calendar Week 6
Feb 6 - Feb 12