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
- Joined the Sculpt / Paint / Texture module meeting on Tuesday.
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.
- Joined the Eevee/Viewport meeting on Monday.
- Joined the Grease Pencil meeting on Monday.
- Joined the Geometry Nodes meeting on Tuesday.
- Joined the Render & Cycles meeting on Tuesday.
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
- Move to Bcon3 on Wednesday: Created the Blender 3.5 release branch, version bumps, splash and updated websites / docs.
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
- Joined the EEVEE & Viewport meeting on Monday.
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
- Added a task to get a better overview of all planned breaking changes for Blender 4.0.
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
- Joined the EEVEE & Viewport module meeting on Monday.
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
- Joined the Render & Cycles module meeting on Tuesday.
- Joined the Pipeline, Assets & I/O Meeting module meeting on Thursday.
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
- Backported fixes to the 3.5 branch for the upcoming 3.5.1 bugfix release.
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
- Fix compilation on Windows. 8775cf804e
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.