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

  • D16976: 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 (rBc1d360f7)

Module Coordination

Development

  • Cleanup: Remove unused light_sample_is_light() function. rBf31f7e3e

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.

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

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.

Gitea

  • Spent most week on Gitea, testing, adding back devs to the teams, help on the chat, docs...

Calendar Week 7

Feb 13 - Feb 19

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.

Meetings

  • Admin meeting on Tuesday

Gitea

  • Spent some time again on account support, answering questions about workflows etc.

Release Management

Calendar Week 8

Feb 20 - Feb 26

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.

Onboarding

  • Offered the Open Chat again, this week on Thursday.

Meetings

  • Cycles module meeting on Tuesday

Release Management

  • Little bit of work on the 2.93.15 and 3.3.4 LTS updates on Tuesday, version bump and updating milestones.
  • Updated text on the release cycle wiki page and the 4.0 milestone.

Google Summer of Code

  • Blender has been accepted again to participate in this years GSoC. Sent announcement mail to bf-commiters, updated the wiki page and posted a thread with infos on devtalk.

Calendar Week 9

Feb 27 - Mar 5

Development Coordination

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

Onboarding

  • Offered the Open Chat again, this week on Tuesday.
  • Onboarding call with Harley.

Module Coordination

Triaging

  • Did some bug triaging.

Calendar Week 10

Mar 6 - Mar 12

Development Coordination

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

Module Coordination

  • Joined the Animation & Rigging module meeting on Thursday.

Release Management

Onboarding

  • Offered the Open Chat again, this week on Wednesday. Many people joined this week, especially interested in contributing to GSoC.

Triaging

  • Did some bug triaging again.

Calendar Week 11

Mar 13 - Mar 19

Development Coordination

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

Meetings

  • Admin meeting on Tuesday

Release Management

  • Went over all high priority reports and asked for updates.
  • Set up Linux environment again to work on the THIRD-PARTY-LICENSES update for 3.5.

Onboarding

  • Offered the Open Chat again, this week on Thursday.

Module Coordination

Calendar Week 12

Mar 20 - Mar 26

Development Coordination

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

GSoC

  • Contributors Sign-up is open since Monday. Answered questions on the chat, invited more mentors to help with reviewing proposals etc.

Release management

  • Helped a bit with the LTS updates on Tuesday (version char bump, tagging git)
  • Updated the THIRD-PARTY-LICENSES.txt for 3.5. dd0d572935
  • Updated the freedesktop file for 3.5. 6cf19b2f79
  • Blender 3.5 moved to Bcon4 on wednesday, updated websites and sent out a mail to the ML.

Onboarding

  • Offered the Open Chat again, this week on Friday.

Module Coordination

Calendar Week 13

Mar 27 - April 2

Development Coordination

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

GSoC

  • Answered questions again on the chat, invited more mentors to help with reviewing proposals etc.

Release management

  • Blender 3.5 release on wednesday. Moved release cycle to bcon5, tested builds, uploded builds to the stores, updated website/chat, release credits etc.

Calendar Week 14

April 3 - April 9

Development Coordination

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

GSoC

  • Started reviewing proposals with mentors. Updated website etc with new deadline.

Release management

  • Checked on incoming reports and issues, 3.5.1 is not urgent and can be released after Easter.

Meetings

  • Joined the Render & Cycles module meeting on Tuesday.
  • Meeting with Arnd, Danny and Aaron to discuss git-lfs and moving the manual to git.

Calendar Week 15

April 10 - April 16

Development Coordination

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

Meetings

  • Admin meeting on Tuesday.

Devtalk

  • Worked further on the devtalk reorganization proposal, has been accepted by admins and module owners and will be implemented now.

Shorter week due to Easter.

Calendar Week 16

April 17 - April 23

Development Coordination

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

Google Summer of code

  • Further coordination to make sure all proposals are reviewied in time for the deadline next week.

Release Management

Onboarding

  • Offered the Open Chat again, this week on Tuesday.

Meetings

  • Joined the Grease Pencil module meeting on Monday.
  • Joined the Render & Cycles module meeting on Tuesday.

Calendar Week 17

April 24 - April 30

Development Coordination

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

Release Management

  • Released Blender 3.5.1 on Tuesday with more then 59 bugfixes compared to 3.5.0. Updated websites, helped with store deployment, git tagging...

Devtalk re-categorization

  • Implemented the new Devtalk 2.0 proposal, with new categories. See the thread on devtalk for more information.

Google Summer of code

  • Finalized the submission of accepted projects. Google will announce them on May 3rd (publicly on May 4th).

Calendar Week 18

May 1 - May 7

Development Coordination

  • Helped people, answered questions and moderated on our platforms (devtalk, developer, chat...)
  • Hosted the online kick-off meetings on Monday.
  • Finished and posted the weekly dev notes.
  • Helped with the Annual Report 2022 (developer descriptions and collecting images)

Meetings

  • Joined the Nodes & Physics meeting on Tuesday.
  • Joined the Render & Cycles meeting on Tuesday.

Google Summer of Code

  • Accepted projects have been announced on May 4, published a blog post about them.

Development

Calendar Week 19

May 8 - May 14

Development Coordination

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

Onboarding

  • Offered the Open Chat again, this week on Friday.

Meetings

  • Joined the Admin meeting on Tuesday

Google Summer of Code

  • Onboarded the contributors, sent them a mail with infos about the chat, devtalk and where to post their thread for weekly reports etc.

Calendar Week 20

May 15 - May 21

Development Coordination

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

Meetings

  • Joined the Render & Cycles meeting on Tuesday

Onboarding

  • Offered the Open Chat again, this week on Friday.

Release Management

  • Created the blender-v3.6-release branch for Bcon3, commited version bumps and splash. Updated websites, release notes, sent out announcements etc

Calendar Week 21

May 22 - May 28

Development Coordination

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

Onboarding

  • Offered the Open Chat again, this week on Thursday.

Release Management

  • Helped a bit with LTS releases on Tuesday (3.3 and 2.93). This will be likely the last 2.93 update.

Google Summer of Code

  • Onboarding meeting with students and mentors on Wednesday. It was a good opoortunity to get to know each other and answer open questions. The coding period starts the coming week.
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