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User:Sergey/Foundation/2023
Weekly Reports for year 2023
Week 576: 2nd - 8th January
- General development
- Catching up with emails and other backlog since the holiday
- Regular design and code reviews
Week 577: 9th - 15th January
- General development
- Regular design and code reviews
- Most of the week is the Gitea migration project
Week 578: 16th - 22th January
- General development
- Full week working on the Gitea migration
Week 578: 23th - 29th January
- General development
- Full week working on the Gitea migration
Week 579: 30th January - 5th February
- General development
- Full week working on the Gitea migration ...
- ... But also managed to catch up with the backlog of the code/design reviews
Week 580: 6th - 12th February
- Full week working on the Gitea migration ...
- ... aaand it's migrated!
- Quite some time spent dealing with the unforeseen consequences
- But also managed to put a bit of time for patch review
Week 581: 13th - 19th February
- General development
- Still some time spent dealing with the consequences of migration
- Worked on the Git submodules re-organization to solve the confusion with Git tooling
- Blender Admins meeting
- Was catching up with the module backlog (the unclassified reports list)
- Small amount of regular design and code reviews
Week 582: 20th - 26th February
- General development
- Changes in the submodules organization for blender.git
- Changes in
make updateto support new submodule organization, and Github style of remotes - Regular design and code reviews
Week 583: 27th February - 5th March
- General development
- Regular design and code reviews
- The most remarkable is the grease pencil workshop here
- Regular design and code reviews
Week 584: 6th -12th March
- General development
- Workshops for grease pencil, Eevee, rendering for the upcoming open movie project
- Smaller fixes for the current studio project
Week 585: 13th - 19th March
- General development
- Regular design and code reviews
- Worked on the light linking project. Together with the Team got the basics of the UI and Cycles kernel supported
Week 586: 20th - 26th March
- General development
- Regular design and code reviews
- Continued working on the light linking project
Week 587: 27th March - 2nd April
- General development
- Regular design and code reviews
- Continued working on the light linking project
- Fix un-initialized variable, which lead to a difficult to track random wrong results of masking node
- Buildbot: run tests in parallel (making this step 2-4x faster depending on a platform)
- Needed to fix non-parallelizable tests (IO tests using the same temp file name)
Week 588: 3rd - 9th April
- General development
- Regular design and code reviews
- Continued working on the light linking project
- Parallel regression tests dead-lock investigation
- Turns out to be an issue in the idiff.exe
- Worked around on the Blender buildbot side, but upstream repro case and report is needed
Week 589: 10th - 16th April
- General development
- Regular design and code reviews
- Continued working on the light linking project
- Still some time was spent dealing with dead-lock of idiff.exe on the buildbot
Week 590: 17th - 23rd April
- General development
- Regular design and code reviews
- Continued working on the light linking project (although, did not have as much time as I've hoped to)
- Cleanup of compiler warnings with default compilation configuration on Apple Silicon
- Fix regression tests failure on the latest Xcode
- Bug tracker
Week 591: 24th - 30th April
- General development
- Regular design and code reviews
- Continued working on the light linking project: got initial support of shadow linking + MIS
- Fix intersection distance offset in Cycles (precision error, could cause back pixels and maybe infinite loop in some rare cases)
Week 592: 1st - 7th May
- General development
- Regular design and code reviews
- Refactor of ImBuf and RenderResult areas to support implicit sharing. The former part is under the review now
- Continued working on the light linking project: shadow linking + MIS is in the cycles-light-linking branch now
Week 593: 8th - 14th May
- General development
- Regular design and code reviews
- Infrastructure/buildbot support for CUDA 12
- Continued working on the light linking project: multiple shadow linked lights, distant lights, mesh lights
Week 594: 15th - 21st May
- General development
- Regular design and code reviews
- The ImBuf refactor is committed, the implicit sharing for the render result is reviewed and ready land
- Continued working on the light linking project. Still some things to do there, but there is only one merge blocker
Week 595: 22nd - 28th May
- General development
- Regular design and code reviews
- Cycles: light and shadow linking committed to the main branch
- BLI: Replace some macros with inlined functions for C++
- Refactor Render Result to allow implicit buffer sharing
- Bug tracker
- Fix #108316 CUDA error rendering Attic scene
- Fix #108315 Illegal CUDA address with shadow-linked mesh emitters
- Fix #108240 Cycles fails on macOS and AMD GPU
- Fix #108250 Cycles: Light Linking disabled after modifying object
- Fix #108243 Crash when save before close with modified image
- Fix #107248 Compositor ACCESS VIOLATION when updating datablocks from handlers
- Fix #108136 Regression : Texture paint is broken
- Fix specialized light tree building for distant lights
- Fix hiding receiver disabling light/shadow linking
- Fix assert in light linking when making an asset.
- Fix crash doing viewport animation render
- Fix make update for upstream workflow and missing branch in submodule
Week 596: 29th May - 4th June
- General development
- Regular design and code reviews
- Bug tracker
Week 597: 5th - 11th June
- General development
- Regular design and code reviews
- Quite some time spent helping the studio (processes, tools design etc)
- Work on fixes and optimizations for the newly landed Kuwahara filter
- Bug tracker
- Fix #108778 Crash when rendering multiple view layers
Week 598: 12th - 18th June
- General development
- Regular design and code reviews
- Various fixes and improvements in Cycles and its automated benchmarking script
- Bug tracker
- Fix #109019 Crash when creating a new collection for light linking
Week 599: 19th - 25th June
- General development
- Regular design and code reviews
- Small refactors, as a preparation for a bigger change for the render pass support for the viewport compositor
Week 600: 26th June - 2nd July
- General development
- Regular design and code reviews.
- Short week, the most of it was spent at EGSR.
Week 601: 3rd - 9th July
- General development
- Catching up after the EGSR.
- Regular design and code reviews.
- Various fixes for compilers and regression tests.
- Removed z-buffer image save option.
- Finished refactoring the RenderPass storage on Blender side. Will be committed on Monday. (This and above is a part of the render passes support for viewport compositor).
Week 602: 10th - 16th July
- General development
- Regular design and code reviews.
- Refactor: Use ImBuf to store passes in RenderResult
- Bug tracker
- Fix #109887 Adding driver from python might crash
Week 603: 17th - 23rd July
- General development
- Regular design and code reviews.
- Refactors around the RenderResult to move forward with the viewport compositor passes
Week 604: 24th - 30th July
- General development
- Regular design and code reviews.
- Various fixes.
Week 605: 31st July - 6th August
- General development
- Shorter week, took some time off
- Regular design and code reviews
- Main development targets were the passes for viewport compositor and C-side changes needed for the AgX view transform
Week 606: 7th - 13th August
- General development
- Regular design and code reviews
- Changes in color management related code needed to move forward with AgX
- Bug tracker
- Fix #109201 Consistent mapping boundaries of brush textures
Week 607: 14th - 20th August
- General development
- Regular design and code reviews
- More changes and fixes in color management related code needed to move forward with AgX:
- Validate Look on View Transform changes
- Validate look is compatible with view on load
- Fix GradingPrimaryTransform OCIO transform in Metal
- Tweak compatible look check: if a view has any specialized looks, only list specialized looks for the view
- Bug tracker
- Fix #111165 Regression: Blender Crashes On Scene Switch
Week 608: 21st - 27th August
- General development
- Regular design and code reviews
- Bug tracker
Week 609: 28th August - 3rd September
- General development
- Regular design and code reviews
Week 610: 4th - 10th September
- General development
- Regular design and code reviews
- Fixes for Cycles Metal and RT + shadow linking
- Fix crash in Cycles when cancelling render during light tree building
Week 611: 11th - 17th September
- General development
- General development
- Regular design and code reviews
- Planning sessions at the studio
- Code sign certificate investigation
Week 612: 18th - 24th September
- General development
- Regular design and code reviews
- Fix crash when toggling link linking state in the list
- Light linking: Make list interface look more similar to other places
- Design/prototype for procedural texturing in Compositor
- Bug tracker
- Fix #112486 VSE: Rendering transparent frames produces errors/crashes
Week 613: 25th September - 1st October
- General development
- Regular design and code reviews
- Light linking: Allow re-ordering in the light linking collections
- New code signing system for the buildbot and releases. Deployed to UATEST, PROD is the next step
Week 614: 2nd - 8th October
- General development
- VSE: Fix Split Strips operator not showing shortcut
- macOS: Enable secure coding for restorable state
- Fix light linking state being lost on collection copy and duplicate
- Bug tracker
- Sculpting
- Fix: Noisy false-positive assert in dyntopo sculpt
- Add vertex interpolation for the dynamic topology
- Improve support of face sets with dyntopo
- Do not clear face sets when enabling dynamic topology
- Draw face sets in viewport when dynamic topology is enabled
- Fix assert in PBVH face set drawing code
Week 615: 9th - 15th October
- General development
- Regular design and code reviews
- Sculpt: Support Float2 attributes for dynamic topology
- Cycles: Add option to control smoothing when using bump map
- Buildbot: A lot of tweaks to make the code-sign and packaging pipeline robust.
- Bug tracker
Week 616: 16th - 22nd October
- General development
- Regular design and code reviews
- Sculpt: Preserve edge attribute on split with dyntopo
- Sculpt: Worked on custom data preservation on edge collapse
- Bug tracker
- Fix #113875 2D Animation template's view transform set to AgX
Week 617: 23rd - 29th October
- General development
- Short week due to BCON23
- Regular design and code reviews
- Continued with the dynamic topology: the edge subdivide/collapse with attribute preservation path is ready for review
Week 618: 30th October - 5th November
- General development
- Regular design and code reviews
- Sculpt: Implement face set brush for dyntopo
- Sculpt: Better boundary preservation with dyntopo
- Depsgraph: Fix missing relations built for camera referenced by markers
- Buildbot: Solved issues with compile-gpu step timing-out
- Bug tracker
- Fix #114129 Crashes on boolean operation macOS Intel
Week 619: 6th - 12th November
- General development
- Regular design and code reviews
- Depsgraph: Fix missing relations build for cameras referenced from timeline markers
- Sculpt: Use C++ in more public API
- Sculpt: Experiment with preserving face set boundaries for dynamic topology. Ended up on requirement to piece extra state in many common areas. Which lead to the following work
- Sculpt: Looked into re-formalizing the brushes. Split implementation on the top level, split logic into more of a "kernel" approach. This should help with passing states, keeping it small and clear, as well as should help performance.
Week 620: 13th - 19th November
- General development
- Regular design and code reviews
- Bug tracker
- Fix #114661 Incorrect display of Rec.1886 and Rec. 2020 view transforms
Week 621: 20th - 26th November
- General development
- Regular design and code reviews
- Helping with the infrasturcture