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. (rB5327413b).
• Fix Cycles integrator presets. (rB1c0be7da).
• Fix typo in Cycles PMJ enum define. (rB2b3becf2).

General Development

• Fix #92722: Error when saving new render preset (rBb8c573c9).

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 #92972, #92975, #92984, #93045.
• Bisected the cause of #92972 and found it in a recent half/float refactor.
• Disable graphics interop for HIP devices (rBe507a789)
• Fix wrong device check in HIP kernel compile. (rB040630bb)
• Cleanup CUDA / HIP comments (rB25e7365d)

General development:

• Node Editor: Display warning when using Nishita sky texture with Eevee (rB41607ced).

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#Use_a_Local_Branch
• Reworked the Finding Reviewers paragraph Process/Contributing_Code#Finding_Reviewers

Development

• Cleanup: Remove unused show_samples() device code in Cycles. (rB83a4d519).
• Investigated NanoVDB not rendering on HIP #93045
• Checked on older Cycles bug reports and closed OpenCL reports (depcrecated now) and reports that have been fixed with Cycles X. #76792, #76628, #76125, #75441, #75434, #75319, #73734, #73042, #71309, #71258, #68052, #67146, #50193, #90085, #85634, #80324, #92291, #82307, #90677, #91032, #81075, #73024, #80454, #80918, #90274, #80092, #65924

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#Key_requirements_for_Add-ons
• Removed Sketchfab and Archipack add-ons to reflect new requirements: (rBAC7936dd), (rBAd7517a6)
• Remove the online updater from MagicUV add-on: (rBA3c5d373)

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. (rBA64537a0)

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. (D12871)
• Cycles: Make Embree compact BVH optional (D13592)
• Fix Cycles compilation with CUDA / Optix after recent Map Range additions. (rB7e8912eb)
• Fix compile error on Windows. (rB18181104)

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.