For a looooong time I’ve been working on different forms of an improved website. I tried Redmine for a while, but it became apparent that it is absolutely not suitable for our needs: lots of users (14k+ registered users), lots of reports (for Blender close to 10k). This is pure suicide for a server running Redmine. Some other things were tried as well (I had even a simple, working bug tracker implemented in Lua on top of Sputnik with all projects and artifacts imported, but maintaining that would’ve been too time consuming).

So after a long time we decided to go for a FusionForge upgrade. This also floated around for a long while, so a few weeks ago I put myself to finally, properly do this. A lot of effort has gone into getting the database upgraded, the software upgraded and customised for our needs. I’m glad that the end is in sight, but before it’s online I give you a short overview of what the upgraded site will look like. Note that I still work style and layout issues, but as a functional tool it shows already what it can (ignore jesterPrincess giving her opinion at some point in the screencast)

I uploaded my SVN+Git tutorial to YouTube, the text for the tutorial will be in our wiki soon. I’ve made a start with changing wiki pages and reorganising the Development section of the main website, moving content to our wiki for easier maintenance by not only me, but others as well.

I’ve taken some time to work on the GForge migration too, which is going pretty nicely. Still some database issues that I’m figuring out, hopefully next week I’ll have some more time to put into this.

Next monday I’ll most likely be not much active, as I’ll be on a trip to Helsinki for some pretty exciting stuff. I hope I can blog about that before the end of the year. If I have a properly working mobile connection, I’ll work from the train, otherwise I’ll do the hours over the course of the entire week.

During the conference I’ve been busy helping out speakers and having two short sessions myself too, with on Saturday one on bug reporting and feature proposals. I hope users now have a better picture of how they can be a part of our development process.

Today only a few numbers, as I need to make some small adjustments to be able to do sensible data gathering from the tracker since the new release, but that’ll have to wait for a few more days. Anyway, the useful numbers:

During last 24 hours 9 reports were closed
During last seven days 67 reports were closed, avg 9.57 per day
During last 30 days 396 reports were closed, avg 13.20 per day
During last 24 hours 9 new issues were reported
During last seven days 74 new issues were reported, avg 10.57 per day
During last 30 days 336 new issues were reported, avg 11.20 per day

So you see, in the last seven days slightly more bugs reported than we closed, but that’s mainly due to the fact that I’ve been concentrating a bit more on non-bugfixing tasks. That said, I’m sure we’ll be well below 200 again next week. (One can at least hope )

COLLADA issues I moved to the todo list, because I need to concentrate on other issues (bugfixes, release logs, docs) too. If there are developers out there who want to contribute to our COLLADA code, I’ll be happy to coordinate their efforts, review their patches and apply them to our trunk.

Apart from bugfixing I did also some cleaning of the code, specifically GHOST and blenkernel are now warning free. We’ve enabled /WX and -Werror for these parts, so any warnings there should be caught pretty soon. Because not all developers work on all platforms it’ll mean an increased amount of “Does Not Compile” messages to our mailing list, but I think that’s OK.

As of this writing we’re on 195 open reports, with since 2.54 beta a total of 718 closed and 522 newly opened reports. As you can see, we do make progress still

BUG STATS FOR BLENDER 2.5 TRACKER 2010-10-24 18:43:45.841000

There have been 1183 submitters
Together they have reported 4094 reports, of which 3899 (95.24) are closed and 195 (4.76) still open
On average each user has submitted 3.46 reports
Shortest time a report was open: 0:02:00
Longest time a report was open: 420 days, 15:39:00
Developer Campbell Barton has most assigned reports: 664
Developer Campbell Barton has most open assigned reports: 24
64 of 195 open bugs still unassigned
User Daniel Salazar submitted most reports: 113
=====
During last 24 hours 4 reports were closed
During last seven days 97 reports were closed, avg 13.86 per day
During last 30 days 457 reports were closed, avg 15.23 per day
During last 24 hours 7 new issues were reported
During last seven days 70 new issues were reported, avg 10.00 per day
During last 30 days 350 new issues were reported, avg 11.67 per day
===== Bugs per category
        : 2 bugs
        Animation system: 233 bugs
        Opengl / Gfx: 109 bugs
        OSX related: 49 bugs
        International: 6 bugs
        Linux related: 42 bugs
        Sculpting: 83 bugs
        Image & Movie I/O: 48 bugs
        FreeBSD related: 2 bugs
        FFMPEG: 5 bugs
        Python: 157 bugs
        Scripts: 23 bugs
        Interface: 886 bugs
        Windows related: 94 bugs
        None: 1078 bugs
        Modifiers: 64 bugs
        Import/Export: 98 bugs
        Game engine: 44 bugs
        Audio: 19 bugs
        Physics: 119 bugs
        Compositor: 72 bugs
        Mesh Modeling: 205 bugs
        Rendering: 283 bugs
        Node Editor: 44 bugs
        Sequencer: 112 bugs
        Tools: 217 bugs
===== Bugs per assignee
        Lukas Steiblys: 15 bugs
        Janne Karhu: 189 bugs
        Emmanuel Stone: 1 bugs
        Andrea Weikert: 34 bugs
        Jason Wilkins: 6 bugs
        Michael Fox: 1 bugs
        Thomas Dinges: 13 bugs
        Joshua Leung: 153 bugs
        Arystanbek Dyussenov: 27 bugs
        Xavier Thomas: 2 bugs
        Sergey Sharybin: 57 bugs
        Ton Roosendaal: 15 bugs
        Mitchell Stokes: 4 bugs
        Tom Musgrove: 2 bugs
        Nobody: 2048 bugs
        Andre Susano Pinto: 11 bugs
        Damien Plisson: 31 bugs
        Luca Bonavita: 1 bugs
        Nathan Vegdahl: 3 bugs
        Campbell Barton: 664 bugs
        Joerg Mueller: 30 bugs
        Daniel Genrich: 19 bugs
        Mike Erwin: 2 bugs
        Geoffrey  Bantle: 1 bugs
        Nathan Letwory: 270 bugs
        Martin Poirier: 57 bugs
        Konrad Kleine: 1 bugs
        Diego Borghetti: 14 bugs
        Dalai Felinto: 16 bugs
        Benoit Bolsee: 5 bugs
        Brecht Van Lommel : 133 bugs
        Joseph Eagar: 3 bugs
        Nicholas Bishop: 41 bugs
        Ken Hughes: 7 bugs
        Peter Schlaile: 38 bugs
        Matt Ebb : 174 bugs
        Robert Holcomb: 1 bugs
        Kent Mein: 1 bugs
        Daniel Salazar: 3 bugs
        William Reynish: 1 bugs
===== Open bugs per assignee
        Janne Karhu: 5 open bugs
        Dalai Felinto: 1 open bugs
        Joshua Leung: 11 open bugs
        Andrea Weikert: 1 open bugs
        Sergey Sharybin: 5 open bugs
        Ton Roosendaal: 5 open bugs
        Mitchell Stokes: 3 open bugs
        Nobody: 64 open bugs
        Jason Wilkins: 2 open bugs
        Damien Plisson: 2 open bugs
        Andre Susano Pinto: 1 open bugs
        Campbell Barton: 24 open bugs
        Benoit Bolsee: 1 open bugs
        Daniel Genrich: 2 open bugs
        Mike Erwin: 2 open bugs
        Geoffrey  Bantle: 1 open bugs
        Nathan Letwory: 15 open bugs
        Martin Poirier: 7 open bugs
        Diego Borghetti: 2 open bugs
        Brecht Van Lommel : 12 open bugs
        Nicholas Bishop: 4 open bugs
        Peter Schlaile: 10 open bugs
        Matt Ebb : 15 open bugs
===== Closers
        dingto closed 62 bugs
        damien78 closed 24 bugs
        khughes closed 4 bugs
        kwk closed 2 bugs
        jesterking closed 256 bugs
        zanqdo closed 32 bugs
        nazgul closed 63 bugs
        gsrb3d closed 1 bugs
        vekoon closed 13 bugs
        letterrip closed 14 bugs
        ben2610 closed 2 bugs
        xat closed 3 bugs
        theeth closed 77 bugs
        genscher closed 5 bugs
        ton closed 4 bugs
        blendix closed 1324 bugs
        bdiego closed 79 bugs
        harkyman closed 2 bugs
        aligorith closed 294 bugs
        broken closed 619 bugs
        nicholasbishop closed 27 bugs
        sirdude closed 1 bugs
        imbusy closed 1 bugs
        jaguarandi closed 6 bugs
        schlaile closed 23 bugs
        elubie closed 15 bugs
        scourage closed 1 bugs
        leifandersen closed 1 bugs
        jhk closed 173 bugs
        mindrones closed 4 bugs
        dfelinto closed 21 bugs
        jwilkins closed 1 bugs
        campbellbarton closed 689 bugs
        billrey closed 3 bugs
        kazanbas closed 13 bugs
        calli closed 7 bugs
        cessen closed 5 bugs
        nexyon closed 28 bugs
===== Bugs closed - date
        2010.10.18
                2010.10.18: jesterking closed 16 issues
                2010.10.18: jhk closed 4 issues
                2010.10.18: campbellbarton closed 3 issues
        ----- total 23 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 16
        2010.10.19
                2010.10.19: aligorith closed 1 issues
                2010.10.19: jhk closed 7 issues
                2010.10.19: jesterking closed 2 issues
                2010.10.19: zanqdo closed 4 issues
                2010.10.19: nazgul closed 1 issues
                2010.10.19: nicholasbishop closed 1 issues
                2010.10.19: campbellbarton closed 10 issues
                2010.10.19: blendix closed 1 issues
                2010.10.19: dfelinto closed 1 issues
        ----- total 28 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 12
        2010.10.20
                2010.10.20: jesterking closed 4 issues
                2010.10.20: jhk closed 1 issues
                2010.10.20: campbellbarton closed 4 issues
                2010.10.20: nicholasbishop closed 2 issues
        ----- total 11 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 11
        2010.10.21
                2010.10.21: campbellbarton closed 5 issues
                2010.10.21: jhk closed 4 issues
                2010.10.21: jesterking closed 1 issues
        ----- total 10 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 6
        2010.10.22
                2010.10.22: aligorith closed 1 issues
                2010.10.22: campbellbarton closed 2 issues
                2010.10.22: jesterking closed 4 issues
        ----- total 7 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 10
        2010.10.23
                2010.10.23: blendix closed 6 issues
                2010.10.23: jhk closed 1 issues
                2010.10.23: campbellbarton closed 2 issues
                2010.10.23: jesterking closed 1 issues
        ----- total 10 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 8
        2010.10.24
                2010.10.24: campbellbarton closed 2 issues
                2010.10.24: nicholasbishop closed 1 issues
                2010.10.24: jesterking closed 1 issues
        ----- total 4 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 4
During last 7 days we had 4 days where we closed more than there were new reports opened
142 days when we closed more than there were opened (417 days with open activity, 378 days with close activity)
522 opened and 718 closed since 2.54 beta

I’ve been working on COLLADA bugs that I thought would be quick to fix. It might have been quick, but I didn’t like the simple fixes, so I took time to devise a way for doing light export ‘properly’. I’ve been in contact with the author of Mitsuba renderer project (Jakob Wenzel) about the issue, and I think that the current way of doing export and import is now much better. Similar issues arise with camera export and import and so on – I continue working on them.

For Windows there was a difficult task in figuring out and fixing the problem of AltGr input in Text editor and Console editor.

Saturday I’ve added a simple version of the System Info script we used to have in 2.4x series. This can now be used by users to get good system info to be used in bug reports (the AltGr-problem became apparent when I tried scripting in Blender for this).

Last week I did 27 commits of which 7 were fixes. I closed 20 reports and I commented of a whole lot more.

Because of the AltGr-problem I put writing the graph scripts back (I use blender text editor exclusively for any Python 3.1.2 code, since it’s the only Python 3.1.2 interpreter I have on my system – ok, I admin, I do use gvim too when scripting in Blender), so the graphs look still unfinished, but here’s the pictures and numbers:

BUG STATS FOR BLENDER 2.5 TRACKER 2010-10-17 18:35:30.852000

There have been 1172 submitters
Together they have reported 4023 reports, of which 3809 (94.68) are closed and 214 (5.32) still open
On average each user has submitted 3.43 reports
Shortest time a report was open: 0:02:00
Longest time a report was open: 420 days, 15:39:00
Developer Campbell Barton has most assigned reports: 638
Developer Nathan Letwory has most open assigned reports: 26
61 of 214 open bugs still unassigned
User Daniel Salazar submitted most reports: 113
=====
During last 24 hours 12 reports were closed
During last seven days 120 reports were closed, avg 17.14 per day
During last 30 days 519 reports were closed, avg 17.30 per day
During last 24 hours 7 new issues were reported
During last seven days 76 new issues were reported, avg 10.86 per day
During last 30 days 361 new issues were reported, avg 12.03 per day
===== Bugs per category
        : 2 bugs
        Animation system: 230 bugs
        Opengl / Gfx: 109 bugs
        OSX related: 48 bugs
        International: 6 bugs
        Linux related: 42 bugs
        Sculpting: 82 bugs
        Image & Movie I/O: 48 bugs
        FreeBSD related: 2 bugs
        FFMPEG: 5 bugs
        Python: 155 bugs
        Scripts: 23 bugs
        Interface: 873 bugs
        Windows related: 92 bugs
        None: 1054 bugs
        Modifiers: 62 bugs
        Import/Export: 96 bugs
        Game engine: 42 bugs
        Audio: 19 bugs
        Physics: 115 bugs
        Compositor: 71 bugs
        Mesh Modeling: 201 bugs
        Rendering: 279 bugs
        Node Editor: 44 bugs
        Sequencer: 108 bugs
        Tools: 215 bugs
===== Bugs per assignee
        Lukas Steiblys: 15 bugs
        Janne Karhu: 177 bugs
        Emmanuel Stone: 1 bugs
        Andrea Weikert: 35 bugs
        Dalai Felinto: 16 bugs
        Michael Fox: 1 bugs
        Thomas Dinges: 13 bugs
        Joshua Leung: 152 bugs
        Arystanbek Dyussenov: 27 bugs
        Xavier Thomas: 2 bugs
        Sergey Sharybin: 56 bugs
        Ton Roosendaal: 15 bugs
        Mitchell Stokes: 3 bugs
        Tom Musgrove: 2 bugs
        Nobody: 2040 bugs
        Andre Susano Pinto: 11 bugs
        Damien Plisson: 30 bugs
        Luca Bonavita: 2 bugs
        Nathan Vegdahl: 3 bugs
        Campbell Barton: 638 bugs
        Joerg Mueller: 30 bugs
        Daniel Genrich: 19 bugs
        Mike Erwin: 2 bugs
        Geoffrey  Bantle: 1 bugs
        Nathan Letwory: 249 bugs
        Nicholas Bishop: 38 bugs
        Konrad Kleine: 1 bugs
        Diego Borghetti: 14 bugs
        Benoit Bolsee: 5 bugs
        Brecht Van Lommel : 133 bugs
        Joseph Eagar: 3 bugs
        Jason Wilkins: 5 bugs
        Martin Poirier: 57 bugs
        Ken Hughes: 7 bugs
        Peter Schlaile: 40 bugs
        Matt Ebb : 174 bugs
        Robert Holcomb: 1 bugs
        Kent Mein: 1 bugs
        Daniel Salazar: 3 bugs
        William Reynish: 1 bugs
===== Open bugs per assignee
        Janne Karhu: 10 open bugs
        Dalai Felinto: 2 open bugs
        Joshua Leung: 12 open bugs
        Matt Ebb : 15 open bugs
        Sergey Sharybin: 5 open bugs
        Ton Roosendaal: 5 open bugs
        Mitchell Stokes: 2 open bugs
        Nobody: 61 open bugs
        Jason Wilkins: 1 open bugs
        Damien Plisson: 2 open bugs
        Andre Susano Pinto: 2 open bugs
        Luca Bonavita: 1 open bugs
        Campbell Barton: 23 open bugs
        Benoit Bolsee: 1 open bugs
        Daniel Genrich: 2 open bugs
        Mike Erwin: 2 open bugs
        Geoffrey  Bantle: 1 open bugs
        Nathan Letwory: 26 open bugs
        Martin Poirier: 7 open bugs
        Diego Borghetti: 2 open bugs
        Brecht Van Lommel : 13 open bugs
        Nicholas Bishop: 5 open bugs
        Peter Schlaile: 12 open bugs
        Andrea Weikert: 2 open bugs
===== Closers
        dingto closed 62 bugs
        damien78 closed 24 bugs
        khughes closed 4 bugs
        kwk closed 2 bugs
        jesterking closed 225 bugs
        zanqdo closed 28 bugs
        nazgul closed 62 bugs
        gsrb3d closed 1 bugs
        vekoon closed 13 bugs
        letterrip closed 14 bugs
        ben2610 closed 2 bugs
        xat closed 3 bugs
        theeth closed 77 bugs
        genscher closed 5 bugs
        ton closed 4 bugs
        blendix closed 1317 bugs
        bdiego closed 79 bugs
        dfelinto closed 20 bugs
        aligorith closed 292 bugs
        broken closed 619 bugs
        nicholasbishop closed 23 bugs
        sirdude closed 1 bugs
        imbusy closed 1 bugs
        jaguarandi closed 6 bugs
        schlaile closed 23 bugs
        elubie closed 15 bugs
        kazanbas closed 13 bugs
        scourage closed 1 bugs
        leifandersen closed 1 bugs
        jhk closed 156 bugs
        mindrones closed 4 bugs
        jwilkins closed 1 bugs
        campbellbarton closed 666 bugs
        billrey closed 3 bugs
        harkyman closed 2 bugs
        calli closed 7 bugs
        cessen closed 5 bugs
        nexyon closed 28 bugs
===== Bugs closed - date
        2010.10.11
                2010.10.11: jhk closed 5 issues
                2010.10.11: campbellbarton closed 15 issues
                2010.10.11: nazgul closed 3 issues
        ----- total 23 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 11
        2010.10.12
                2010.10.12: jhk closed 2 issues
                2010.10.12: campbellbarton closed 7 issues
        ----- total 9 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 2
        2010.10.13
                2010.10.13: jhk closed 3 issues
                2010.10.13: campbellbarton closed 13 issues
                2010.10.13: nazgul closed 3 issues
        ----- total 19 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 5
        2010.10.14
                2010.10.14: jesterking closed 5 issues
                2010.10.14: jhk closed 4 issues
                2010.10.14: campbellbarton closed 6 issues
                2010.10.14: nazgul closed 2 issues
        ----- total 17 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 22
        2010.10.15
                2010.10.15: blendix closed 3 issues
                2010.10.15: campbellbarton closed 10 issues
                2010.10.15: jesterking closed 6 issues
                2010.10.15: jhk closed 4 issues
        ----- total 23 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 18
        2010.10.16
                2010.10.16: aligorith closed 8 issues
                2010.10.16: jesterking closed 2 issues
                2010.10.16: nazgul closed 2 issues
                2010.10.16: campbellbarton closed 1 issues
                2010.10.16: vekoon closed 1 issues
                2010.10.16: blendix closed 4 issues
                2010.10.16: calli closed 1 issues
        ----- total 19 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 10
        2010.10.17
                2010.10.17: aligorith closed 1 issues
                2010.10.17: jesterking closed 7 issues
                2010.10.17: blendix closed 1 issues
        ----- total 9 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 6
-> During last 7 days we had 6 days where we closed more than there were new reports opened
-> 138 days when we closed more than there were opened (410 days with open activity, 371 days with close activity)
-> 451 opened and 628 closed since 2.54 beta

Last week has again been full of bug fixing. Since much of the easy bugs has been handled, it is going to show in our closing speed as reports need more and more time to investigate and verify. That doesn’t mean we stop working of course, on the contrary. Last week I closed over 40 reports. This includes the reports that we mark as todo on our wiki todo list. A lot of time went also in investigating new (and old) reports and getting more information for those.

People have been asking me how we handle bug reports. For Blender 2.5x series we use the Blender 2.5 Bug Tracker (which is still behind log in) with bugs set to data type Blender 2.5 Bug Tracker.

In our tracker we have the following states for Resolution: None, New, Investigate, Ready (rare, prestage for Fixed), Approved, Rejected, Postponed (unused), Fixed, Duplicate and Todo.

When a new report is submitted the report is None, sometimes the user sets to New, either way is OK. The next step is for a dedicated developer to do a first assessment of the report. The idea of the triaging is that the developer tries to determine if it’s a valid report and if so, assign it to a developer who can handle the bug (code owner, module owner). The bug will be assigned and set to New, or if the triaging developer is certain, Approved. If a report is not valid, the report is marked Rejected and State is set to Closed. An invalid report is often:

• misunderstanding of how a feature works
• a user not aware of some feature
• something that didn’t work like a user expected, but was designed or implemented in that way

Either the triaging or assigned developer can set Resolution to Investigate, although this is not often used by all developers. I like to put it on Investigate to signal the reporter and interested parties that the issue is being looked at. When a bug is fixed the assignee sets Resolution to Fixed and State to Closed. This we do mostly on basis of testing by developer, who might or might not have asked other developers to test. This depends on the complexity of the issue. Only if the reporter notices that an issue hasn’t been fixed properly is a Fixed and Closed report reopened.

If similar reports have been reported before it is marked as Duplicated and set their State to Closed. We try to put in comments of both the duplicate and original bug links to the other report, so all can be verified when a fix is found.

To help us manage the influx of bugs we’ve decided to keep in the bug tracker only reports that are actual bugs to our standards. A bug is something that is intended (code and design) to work, but doesn’t.

Reports can be marked also as Todo and moved to the todo wiki. In that case reports are closed too. Reports eligable for move are often related to features that haven’t been fully implemented (or at all). Also  reports of recurring issues that we have trouble finding good solutions for in a short timespan can be moved to this todo page. An example is several OpenGL problems that can happen on some cards, but also some larger tasks that can take some time and need someone to sit down and actually do it. The todo list is for both old developers and for those who want to start working on Blender code. The bug tracker is a good place, of course, but our todo page will contain sections that can have links to the bug tracker, and are thus easier to oversee for developers. Right now the todo list is in many places just bunch of bullet lists, but I intend to write out more details for as many sections as possible in the coming time as part of my role for Development Support, along with coder documentation on what to do, how, where, etc.

The rules are not enforced, but it would be benificial if both users and developers followed the rules as much as possible. It’ll help me and others in handling the bugs and quickly respond to changes and new ones.

I hope this short overview helps users and developers in understanding how our process works.

Enough of the boring stuff, let’s have some diagrams and numbers of the current development progress:

 2010.09.12
         2010.09.12: theeth closed 1 issues
         2010.09.12: jesterking closed 3 issues
 ----- total 4 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 8
 2010.09.13
         2010.09.13: aligorith closed 2 issues
         2010.09.13: campbellbarton closed 13 issues
         2010.09.13: jhk closed 7 issues
         2010.09.13: jesterking closed 12 issues
 ----- total 34 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 12
 2010.09.14
         2010.09.14: jesterking closed 1 issues
         2010.09.14: jhk closed 3 issues
         2010.09.14: campbellbarton closed 1 issues
         2010.09.14: nazgul closed 1 issues
 ----- total 6 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 15
 2010.09.15
         2010.09.15: dingto closed 2 issues
         2010.09.15: aligorith closed 1 issues
         2010.09.15: jhk closed 1 issues
         2010.09.15: jesterking closed 2 issues
         2010.09.15: campbellbarton closed 10 issues
         2010.09.15: blendix closed 13 issues
 ----- total 29 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 17
 2010.09.16
         2010.09.16: aligorith closed 1 issues
         2010.09.16: jesterking closed 10 issues
         2010.09.16: nazgul closed 1 issues
         2010.09.16: broken closed 1 issues
         2010.09.16: campbellbarton closed 1 issues
         2010.09.16: blendix closed 10 issues
 ----- total 24 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 22
 2010.09.17
         2010.09.17: blendix closed 4 issues
         2010.09.17: jhk closed 5 issues
         2010.09.17: campbellbarton closed 6 issues
         2010.09.17: jesterking closed 6 issues
         2010.09.17: nazgul closed 1 issues
 ----- total 22 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 12
 2010.09.18
         2010.09.18: campbellbarton closed 3 issues
         2010.09.18: jhk closed 1 issues
         2010.09.18: damien78 closed 1 issues
         2010.09.18: jesterking closed 6 issues
         2010.09.18: blendix closed 5 issues
 ----- total 16 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 6
 2010.09.19
         2010.09.19: blendix closed 4 issues
         2010.09.19: jesterking closed 2 issues
         2010.09.19: campbellbarton closed 1 issues
 ----- total 7 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 3

I want to thank all of the involved developers, especially Brecht, who clearly has been on a hot streak two days in a row.

Now for some stats and graphs:

Daily Activity

Hourly Activity

Accumulative Opened/Closed For 2.53-2.54

Some numbers for last week:

===== Bugs closed - date
        2010.09.04
                2010.09.04: dingto closed 1 issues
                2010.09.04: jesterking closed 5 issues
                2010.09.04: schlaile closed 1 issues
        ----- total 7 bugs close. New bugs for this day: 8
        2010.09.05
                2010.09.05: schlaile closed 1 issues
                2010.09.05: campbellbarton closed 1 issues
                2010.09.05: nexyon closed 2 issues
                2010.09.05: jesterking closed 3 issues
                2010.09.05: nazgul closed 1 issues
        ----- total 8 bugs close. New bugs for this day: 8
        2010.09.06
                2010.09.06: mindrones closed 1 issues
                2010.09.06: jhk closed 4 issues
                2010.09.06: jesterking closed 7 issues
                2010.09.06: zanqdo closed 1 issues
                2010.09.06: campbellbarton closed 9 issues
                2010.09.06: dfelinto closed 2 issues
        ----- total 24 bugs close. New bugs for this day: 11
        2010.09.07
                2010.09.07: aligorith closed 1 issues
                2010.09.07: jesterking closed 5 issues
                2010.09.07: zanqdo closed 3 issues
                2010.09.07: broken closed 1 issues
                2010.09.07: nicholasbishop closed 1 issues
                2010.09.07: campbellbarton closed 14 issues
        ----- total 25 bugs close. New bugs for this day: 12
        2010.09.08
                2010.09.08: dingto closed 1 issues
                2010.09.08: jhk closed 3 issues
                2010.09.08: campbellbarton closed 4 issues
                2010.09.08: jesterking closed 2 issues
        ----- total 10 bugs close. New bugs for this day: 17
        2010.09.09
                2010.09.09: campbellbarton closed 2 issues
                2010.09.09: jhk closed 2 issues
                2010.09.09: jesterking closed 1 issues
                2010.09.09: nicholasbishop closed 1 issues
        ----- total 6 bugs close. New bugs for this day: 6
        2010.09.10
                2010.09.10: jesterking closed 5 issues
                2010.09.10: jhk closed 3 issues
                2010.09.10: kazanbas closed 1 issues
                2010.09.10: campbellbarton closed 4 issues
                2010.09.10: nazgul closed 1 issues
        ----- total 14 bugs close. New bugs for this day: 9

I’ll be working on the bug tracker and on documentation (two of the things probably considered least sexy), to get Blender 2.5 finally out of the beta stage. I’m honoured that the Blender Foundation wants focused effort from me in this way.

I hope I can do make a good impact on the bug count in our tracker and supporting other developers in stabilizing the codebase.

Rest assured, with all the current work I have (and for which I’m grateful: realxtend.org and blender.org), I’ll continue to work on and provide Planet Blender and Blenderstorm.

Enjoy your Blender!
/Nathan

I added the frontend part for session managent of users, so after upload you can follow your session progress through Blender using the uploader script (Renderfarm.fi in the Renderer dropdown).

Also a set of UI improvements were done, as well as improvements to the communication with the backend server handling the submissions.

Renderfarm.fi now thus supports Blender 2.5a2, and I’m sure we’ll be supporting the imminent Blender 2.5 beta too.

All in all I think the service has been improved a lot, and you should find it a very useful way to get those long renders done much faster

Enjoy!

/Nathan

I think that the Renderfarm.fi project is a very interesting project for Blender users (and during summer another renderer should be integrated – more on that in due time), since it allows users to send in their scenes that may take a long time to finish on their own machine(s). Having the growing group of rendering clients from Renderfarm.fi is just what you need then.

I also like to put my idle CPU cycles to use for the project. I have a very own team of crunchers called jesterKing Crunchers who like to run the Renderfarm.fi BOINC client.

If you’re interested in donating your free CPU cycles for others to use, please consider joining my team jesterKing Crunchers! The aim is to become one of the largest and best teams on Renderfarm.fi!

• Blender 2.5 r30109 win32
• Blender 2.5 r30109 win64

As always, you can find the links to these download pages on the right side of my blog.

Update: I’ve now also updated the installer builds:

• Blender 2.5 r30109 win32 installer
• Blender 2.5 r30109 win64 installer

I still need to check out on Jack, libsamplerate and sndfile -support, as those are still disabled in my builds.

Other than that, enjoy as usual!

/Nathan

[NOTE] The uploads seem to be stuck, so please keep checking the links to see if the uploads when through properly.

Just a quick post that I have updated since a looong time my builds on Graphicall.org. See the links in the navigation section for the new builds.

I’ll write up later today a larger post about my Blender development and other exciting news.

Stay tuned!

/Nathan

It’s been only a few weeks since my previous builds, but between that post and this there have been over 300 commits. Please refer to the commit logs to see what has been changed, added, removed.

As always, the packages are self-extracting 7z-archives (you can still use your locally installed 7z if you are so inclined – just right-click on the archive and choose the proper action from the 7z context menu), and scanned for viruses with AVG Anti-Virus 9.0.725.

• Blender 2.5 r25772, Windows, 32bit
• Blender 2.5 r25772, Windows, 64bit

As interesting extra information: I have now bought Windows 7 Ultimate retail, and the install went smooth. At least my Blender development and build environment is up and running! Although I’ve got this covered now, you are still free to donate (I’d like to be able to get the next Visual Studio when it comes out, for instance). Check the Blender Development page elsewhere on my blog.

At any rate, enjoy these new builds!

/Nathan

keymap editor

It represents the available keymaps in a hierarchy that shows in a nicer way than the old version. Just give it a good spin. As always give everything a good spin

You should be able to find the links to the builds on the right side of my blog →