User:ThomasDinges/WeeklyReports/2021

= 2021 =

Calendar Week 44
Nov 1st - Nov 7th

 General 
 * Moderation and helping people on platforms (devtalk, developer, chat...)
 * Triage reports / patches

 Cycles Development
 * Cleanup: Remove Cycles device checks for half float..
 * Fix Cycles integrator presets..
 * Fix typo in Cycles PMJ enum define..

 General Development 
 * Fix : Error when saving new render preset.

 Modules 
 * Worked on User:ThomasDinges/ModuleImprovements, a proposal to re-organize module pages and improve the information available.

Calendar Week 45
Nov 8th - Nov 14th

 General 
 * Moderation and helping people on platforms (devtalk, developer, chat...)
 * Triage reports / patches
 * I was a guest on Blender.Today on Monday: https://youtu.be/qRm7uHP_Kz0
 * Presented my User:ThomasDinges/ModuleImprovements report to devtalk and collected feedback.

 Development 

Worked on Cycles rendering on AMD GPUs with HIP:
 * Reported several issues that I found, , ,.
 * Bisected the cause of and found it in a recent half/float refactor.
 * Disable graphics interop for HIP devices
 * Fix wrong device check in HIP kernel compile.
 * Cleanup CUDA / HIP comments

General development:
 * Node Editor: Display warning when using Nishita sky texture with Eevee.

 Release Notes 
 * Benchmarked GPU render time on AMD GPU between 2.93 and 3.0 for the release notes: AMD Benchmarks

Calendar Week 46
Nov 15th - Nov 21th

 General 
 * Moderation and helping people on platforms (devtalk, developer, chat...)
 * Triage reports / patches

 Documentation 
 * Updated wiki to reflect new add-ons policy (commercial or linking to services outside of blender.org). Process/Addons
 * Clarify that patches should be against master branch usually, after this topic has been brought up in chat. Tools/CodeReview
 * Reworked the Finding Reviewers paragraph Process/Contributing_Code

 Development 
 * Cleanup: Remove unused show_samples device code in Cycles..
 * Investigated NanoVDB not rendering on HIP
 * Checked on older Cycles bug reports and closed OpenCL reports (depcrecated now) and reports that have been fixed with Cycles X., , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Calendar Week 47
Nov 22nd - Nov 28th

 General 
 * Moderation and helping people on platforms (devtalk, developer, chat...)
 * Posted the Open chat, a weekly audio/video chat for every (new) developer and people who like to get involved. https://devtalk.blender.org/t/developer-community-coordinator-weekly-open-chat/21578/3
 * Triage reports / patches

 Add-ons 
 * Spend quite some time, clarifying and communicating about new Process/Addons
 * Removed Sketchfab and Archipack add-ons to reflect new requirements: ,
 * Remove the online updater from MagicUV add-on:

Calendar Week 48
Nov 29th - Dec 5th

 General 
 * Moderation and helping people on platforms (devtalk, developer, chat...)
 * Offered the Open Chat for the first time on Monday. Next week again!
 * Fixed and updated some things for the Blender 3.0 release notes in the wiki.
 * Added a modules status indicator to my Module Improvements proposal and asked for feedback on the mailing list.

 Tracker 
 * Triage reports / patches
 * Added canned response for providing a debug log on Windows.

 Development 
 * Fix Amaranth and FBX add-on cycles visibility.

Calendar Week 49
Dec 6th - Dec 12th

 General 
 * Moderation and helping people on platforms (devtalk, developer, chat...)
 * Offered the Open Chat again, this time on Tuesday. I could help some people already, answering questions on how to get started with Blender development. Will keep doing these.
 * Refined User:ThomasDinges/ModuleImprovements, make it more clear and asked for feedback again in the chat.
 * Triage reports / patches

Calendar Week 50
Dec 13th - Dec 19th

 General 
 * Moderation and helping people on devtalk, developer, chat...
 * Offered the Open Chat again, this time on Wednesday.
 * Triage reports / patches

 Development 
 * Tested the Cycles Light Groups patch and gave feedback on UI / usability.
 * Cycles: Make Embree compact BVH optional
 * Fix Cycles compilation with CUDA / Optix after recent Map Range additions.
 * Fix compile error on Windows.

Calendar Week 51
Dec 20th - Dec 26th

 General 
 * Moderation and helping people on devtalk, developer, chat...
 * Triage reports / patches
 * Offered the Open Chat again, this time on Monday.

Calendar Week 52
Dec 27th - Jan 2nd

Time off.