User:Sebbas/Reports/2021

Reports 2021

January 04 - 08

• General:
  • Working on project proposals for the new year.

• Bugs:
  • Fix T83777: Mantaflow - Crash when enabling guides
  • Fix T84103: Smoke simulation dont show up after baking Noise

• Next week:
  • There are still several bugs in the tracker that I would like to have fixed in 2.92. So more bug fixing next week.

January 11 - 15

• Bugs:
  • Fix T84280: Mantaflow viscosity: Repeating emission from inflow causes initial emission to be twice as fast compared to proceeding emissions.
  • Fix T84103: Smoke simulation dont show up after baking Noise
  • Work on fix for T84649: Quick liquid causing crash on scale operation
  • Looked into macOS bug T81169, but could not figure out the issue

• Next week:
  • Same as last week: Work on more bugs in the tracker.

January 18 - 22

• General:
  • Continued working on bugs from last week (especially T84280 and T84649). Fixes turned out to be a bit more complex and are yet to be finalized.
  • General brainstorming for upcoming projects.

• Next week:
  • Bug sprint week.
  • Extra efforts to fix T81169.

January 25 - 29

• Bugs:
  • Investigated T81017 and found out the problem. The fix for this will be a bigger task. Tagged as "Known Issue" for now.
  • Finalized the fix for T84649. Commit will be up this week in the release branch.
  • More tests for T84280, but so far no updates for this bug.
  • Helped with the fix of T81169.

• Next week:
  • Help with the "Overrides" project, get familiar with the project requirements.
  • Formulate idea for a GSoC project (the idea is already there :)

February 01 - 05

• General:
  • LibOverride: Only show relevant operators in outliner menu (bd973dbc44)
  • LibOverride: Added log statements in liboverride operator functions (07f7483296)
  • Miscellaneous fixes for fluids (critical for 2.92) (a563775649)

• Bugs:
  • Fix T84649: Quick liquid causing crash on scale operation
  • Fix T85311: Mantaflow Wavelet Noise Crash
  • Closed T85381: Fluid and rigid bodies

• Next week:
  • Look more into macOS library tasks
  • Formulate idea for a GSoC project (carry over from last week)

February 08 - 12

• General:
  • Worked dependency updates for macOS x86 and arm64 (rBL62545, rBL62549, rBL62558)
  • Finalized idea / project description for a GSoC project on fluids (Machine Learning for Fluid Simulations)

• Bugs:
  • Submitted D10360: Animation: Prevent keyframe manipulation in linked data

• Next week:
  • Library Overrides project: Diffing code, start working on T82160

February 15 - 19

• General:
  • More work on library updates for macOS (rBL62567, rBL62568, rBL62570, rBL62571, rBL62572)
  • Continued reading up on library overrides (T82160)

• Next week:
  • Finalize macOS lib updates

February 22 - 26

• General:
  • macOS (x86) library upgrades (rBL62576, rBL62578, rBL62579, rBL62584, fb7751f3e6, e00a87163c)

• Next week:
  • Focus on library overrides (T82160)

March 01 - 05

• General:
  • macOS (arm64) library upgrades. Platform is fully buildable again (rBL62589, rBL62590, rBL62592, rBL62593, rBL62594, rBL62595)
  • Cleanups on "Code Quality Day" (ed84161529)
  • Continued work on the (T82160) diffing subtask - still WIP

• Next week:
  • Catch up on physics module work
  • Investigate why unit tests are failing on macOS arm64

March 08 - 12

• General:
  • Fix for some duplicate users in credits (b66c22e1fb97)
  • Enabled scale options for fluid particles in UI (b01e9ad4f0)
  • Began catching up on open issues / reports in physics module

• Next week:
  • Similar to last week, more module work.

March 15 - 19

• General:
  • Libraries: macOS arm64 maintenance work (21236af80c, 970e246ccc)

• Bugs:
  • Investigated T86053: 2.9x - Crash while baking particle and/or smoke simulations

• Next week:
  • Similar to last week, more module work

March 22 - 26

• General:
  • Preparations for new project on better real-time physics / fluids!

• Next week:
  • Solve issue from T86053 without updating the blosc library

March 29 - 02

• Holiday week

April 05 - 09

• Bugs:
  • Investigated T86053 and feasibility of blosc library upgrade for OpenVDB

• Next week:
  • Bug fixing for 2.93

April 12 - 16

• General:
  • macOS: Recompiled Python libs on 10.13 (rBL62615)
  • CMake/deps: Remove CPP11 option for OpenImageIO (2cc3a89cf6)

• Next week:
  • Bug fixing for 2.93

April 19 - 23

• General:
  • No bug fixing this week (as planned before). Focused on real-time fluids improvements instead.
  • In particular, I am exploring options on how to offload Mantaflow's (computationally expensive) simulation loops to the GPU.

• Next week:
  • Bug sprint week for 2.93

April 26 - 30

• General:
  • Mix of building a new workstation, reading CUDA developer docs and some potential fixes for 2.93 fluids
  • GSoC proposal reviews

• Next week:
  • Finalize + commit fluid bug fixes for 2.93
  • Continue work fluid real-time optimizations

May 03 - 07

• General:
  • Tests and fluid experiments with CUDA on new workstation

• Next week:
  • Continue CUDA development

May 10 - 14

• Upcoming