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Blender Foundation: Status Update Week 9

jesterKing — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 09:30:10 +0000

It’s been way too long since my previous update, so here finally a new update. So, what have I been doing all this time?

Well, mostly I’ve been working on developer documentation. It’s been quite a boring task, and as some sort of poor excuse, it’s been uninviting enough to “forget” about the status reports. Anyway, I’ve been shuffling content on the wiki to some extent, creating for the development contents section a new and clearer start page that should help decide and point viewers to the correct place. Three big links which go to building blender, developing blender and contacting the developers. Further some content got reorganised from different places into the wiki (from the www.blender.org typo site). There are still some redirect issues left with some of the links, but these Typo3 issues will hopefully addressed when we get an upgrade to Typo4; at least my attempts to fix those redirects haven’t been very successful. An extra reload in the browser by the user is needed to have the redirect work OK. A similar link collection I’ve created on projects.blender.org to help visitors (potential bug reporters and developers) quickly find our patch and bug trackers.

Apart from wiki work, which will continue of course, I’ve been doing the past few weeks lots of doxygen work. After testing in a few modules I worked on a script to get all our code files tagged and grouped in a structure that resembles our source base. All in all around 2400 files have now been tagged and verified and committed for doxygen usage. Even with a script to help me out with modifying the codefiles it took a long time to go through all the code and have them checked. Anyway, for those who would like to have a nice, browsable introduction to our source code can check out doxygenified blendercode on my site. The current size of this all is 455MB, and that while not all possible doxygenifications have been done! If you don’t want to browse the code through my site you can download a 84MB CHM file: blender.chm. There are CHM viewers for Linux and OSX.

The plan is to write a blog post about the doxygenification on the Blender developer blog, outlining the plans for it in the (near) future.

During the last few weeks 2010 and begin of 2011 I also worked a while on COLLADA, setting up a 2-pass mechanism that I’ll continue working on now that this step doxygenification has been completed. I wrote code for both OpenCOLLADA and Blender to handle stride settings specified in the tag for geometry data. The patch works very well for vertices, but needs to be improved a little so it can be used easily also for all other geometry reading (normals, texture coordinates, etc.). On windows this is already secretly built into the OpenCOLLADA lib, but I’ll finalize the code and submit it as a patch to the OpenCOLLADA trackers. For normal export I also received a small library by Morten Mikkelson to help with welding geometry and normal info before doing the actual writing to a COLLADA file.

I managed to do a few bug fixes during this period too, but my coding input has been low due to the documentation effort. I’m poised to get back to coding and bugfixing again! Tomorrow the first day of the last month of my contract with Blender Foundation starts, so we’ll set some nice targets to achieve during this month. Stay tuned.

Blender Foundation: Status Update Week 48

jesterKing — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 17:00:23 +0000

I already wrote about my work for the last week in my previous blog, but I wanted to do this one still so I could also include some stats, that have been lacking for a few weeks. Note that this is a longer-than-usual stats message, so be sure to check out the SVN stats section and the fixed bugs -list.

As you can see, hour daily stats are starting to look very nice. Only three days during which more reports were opened than closed. The hourly stats also look a bit better than before, most hours creeping closer to the same amount of reporting as closing.

For the accumulated amounts per day we see that right after Blender 2.55 beta release we received more bugs than we fixed. After a good two weeks we finally managed to turn the tide, and it is evident that also Ton Roosendaal is participating in our bug fixing efforts. Finally!

BUG STATS FOR BLENDER 2.5 TRACKER 2010-12-04 18:28:06.632000

There have been 1316 submitters since tracker 2.5 start
Together they have reported 4641 reports, of which 4550 (98.04) are closed and 91 (1.96) still open
On average each user has submitted 3.53 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: 848
Developer Brecht Van Lommel  has most open assigned reports: 13
5 of 91 open bugs still unassigned
User Daniel Salazar submitted most reports: 123
=====
During last 24 hours 13 reports were closed
During last seven days 113 reports were closed, avg 16.14 per day
During last 30 days 533 reports were closed, avg 17.77 per day
During last 24 hours 7 new issues were reported
During last seven days 73 new issues were reported, avg 10.43 per day
During last 30 days 417 new issues were reported, avg 13.90 per day
===== Bugs per category
    Animation system: 282 bugs
    Opengl / Gfx: 121 bugs
    OSX related: 49 bugs
    International: 6 bugs
    Linux related: 47 bugs
    Sculpting: 91 bugs
    Image & Movie I/O: 56 bugs
    FreeBSD related: 2 bugs
    FFMPEG: 5 bugs
    Python: 193 bugs
    Scripts: 23 bugs
    Interface: 982 bugs
    Windows related: 107 bugs
    Game engine: 43 bugs
    None: 1219 bugs
    Modifiers: 84 bugs
    Import/Export: 119 bugs
    Compositor: 85 bugs
    Audio: 22 bugs
    Physics: 139 bugs
    Mesh Modeling: 229 bugs
    Rendering: 328 bugs
    Node Editor: 53 bugs
    Sequencer: 122 bugs
    Tools: 234 bugs
===== Bugs per assignee
    Lukas Steiblys: 17 bugs
    Janne Karhu: 264 bugs
    Emmanuel Stone: 1 bugs
    Dalai Felinto: 18 bugs
    Michael Fox: 1 bugs
    Thomas Dinges: 17 bugs
    Joshua Leung: 163 bugs
    Arystanbek Dyussenov: 27 bugs
    Matt Ebb : 168 bugs
    Sergey Sharybin: 71 bugs
    Ton Roosendaal: 83 bugs
    Mitchell Stokes: 4 bugs
    Tom Musgrove: 2 bugs
    Nobody: 2182 bugs
    Andre Susano Pinto: 11 bugs
    Damien Plisson: 33 bugs
    Luca Bonavita: 1 bugs
    Nathan Vegdahl: 3 bugs
    Xavier Thomas: 2 bugs
    Campbell Barton: 848 bugs
    Joerg Mueller: 33 bugs
    Daniel Genrich: 18 bugs
    Ben Batt: 1 bugs
    Mike Erwin: 1 bugs
    Nathan Letwory: 299 bugs
    Nicholas Bishop: 44 bugs
    Konrad Kleine: 1 bugs
    Diego Borghetti: 13 bugs
    Benoit Bolsee: 4 bugs
    Brecht Van Lommel : 143 bugs
    Joseph Eagar: 3 bugs
    Jason Wilkins: 6 bugs
    Martin Poirier: 66 bugs
    Ken Hughes: 9 bugs
    Peter Schlaile: 37 bugs
    Andrea Weikert: 37 bugs
    Robert Holcomb: 1 bugs
    Roland Hess : 3 bugs
    Kent Mein: 1 bugs
    Daniel Salazar: 4 bugs
    William Reynish: 1 bugs
===== Open bugs per assignee
    Damien Plisson: 2 open bugs
    Sergey Sharybin: 4 open bugs
    Ton Roosendaal: 1 open bugs
    Janne Karhu: 7 open bugs
    Lukas Steiblys: 1 open bugs
    Nicholas Bishop: 5 open bugs
    Mike Erwin: 1 open bugs
    Nobody: 5 open bugs
    Andrea Weikert: 2 open bugs
    Peter Schlaile: 7 open bugs
    Nathan Letwory: 11 open bugs
    Jason Wilkins: 2 open bugs
    Matt Ebb : 2 open bugs
    Martin Poirier: 4 open bugs
    Roland Hess : 2 open bugs
    Campbell Barton: 11 open bugs
    Daniel Genrich: 1 open bugs
    Mitchell Stokes: 1 open bugs
    Dalai Felinto: 1 open bugs
    Joshua Leung: 8 open bugs
    Brecht Van Lommel : 13 open bugs
===== Closers
    dingto closed 71 bugs
    damien78 closed 25 bugs
    khughes closed 4 bugs
    kwk closed 2 bugs
    jesterking closed 284 bugs
    zanqdo closed 37 bugs
    nazgul closed 78 bugs
    cessen closed 5 bugs
    vekoon closed 13 bugs
    letterrip closed 14 bugs
    ben2610 closed 2 bugs
    xat closed 3 bugs
    theeth closed 87 bugs
    genscher closed 5 bugs
    ton closed 195 bugs
    bdiego closed 79 bugs
    harkyman closed 2 bugs
    aligorith closed 316 bugs
    broken closed 625 bugs
    nicholasbishop closed 27 bugs
    sirdude closed 1 bugs
    blendix closed 1395 bugs
    dougal2 closed 1 bugs
    imbusy closed 1 bugs
    jaguarandi closed 6 bugs
    schlaile closed 23 bugs
    elubie closed 17 bugs
    scourage closed 1 bugs
    leifandersen closed 1 bugs
    jhk closed 246 bugs
    mindrones closed 4 bugs
    dfelinto closed 24 bugs
    jwilkins closed 1 bugs
    campbellbarton closed 899 bugs
    billrey closed 3 bugs
    kazanbas closed 13 bugs
    calli closed 7 bugs
    gsrb3d closed 2 bugs
    nexyon closed 31 bugs
===== Bugs closed - date
    2010.11.21
        2010.11.21: blendix closed 1 issues
        2010.11.21: nicholasbishop closed 1 issues
        2010.11.21: theeth closed 2 issues
        2010.11.21: ton closed 11 issues
    ----- total 15 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 12
    2010.11.22
        2010.11.22: ton closed 7 issues
        2010.11.22: nexyon closed 1 issues
        2010.11.22: campbellbarton closed 10 issues
        2010.11.22: zanqdo closed 1 issues
        2010.11.22: dingto closed 4 issues
    ----- total 23 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 20
    2010.11.23
        2010.11.23: aligorith closed 1 issues
        2010.11.23: campbellbarton closed 4 issues
        2010.11.23: jhk closed 2 issues
        2010.11.23: zanqdo closed 1 issues
        2010.11.23: nazgul closed 1 issues
        2010.11.23: ton closed 3 issues
        2010.11.23: blendix closed 5 issues
    ----- total 17 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 10
    2010.11.24
        2010.11.24: damien78 closed 1 issues
        2010.11.24: jhk closed 1 issues
        2010.11.24: jesterking closed 4 issues
        2010.11.24: campbellbarton closed 7 issues
        2010.11.24: ton closed 6 issues
        2010.11.24: blendix closed 4 issues
    ----- total 23 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 17
    2010.11.25
        2010.11.25: aligorith closed 1 issues
        2010.11.25: ton closed 7 issues
        2010.11.25: jhk closed 1 issues
        2010.11.25: campbellbarton closed 3 issues
        2010.11.25: zanqdo closed 1 issues
    ----- total 13 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 27
    2010.11.26
        2010.11.26: jhk closed 5 issues
        2010.11.26: zanqdo closed 1 issues
        2010.11.26: nazgul closed 1 issues
        2010.11.26: campbellbarton closed 2 issues
        2010.11.26: ton closed 3 issues
        2010.11.26: blendix closed 6 issues
        2010.11.26: dfelinto closed 1 issues
    ----- total 19 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 10
    2010.11.27
        2010.11.27: theeth closed 1 issues
        2010.11.27: campbellbarton closed 1 issues
        2010.11.27: ton closed 2 issues
    ----- total 4 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 8
    2010.11.28
        2010.11.28: campbellbarton closed 3 issues
        2010.11.28: nazgul closed 1 issues
        2010.11.28: ton closed 11 issues
        2010.11.28: blendix closed 1 issues
    ----- total 16 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 6
    2010.11.29
        2010.11.29: blendix closed 1 issues
        2010.11.29: campbellbarton closed 3 issues
        2010.11.29: ton closed 7 issues
        2010.11.29: broken closed 5 issues
    ----- total 16 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 15
    2010.11.30
        2010.11.30: aligorith closed 1 issues
        2010.11.30: jhk closed 1 issues
        2010.11.30: theeth closed 2 issues
        2010.11.30: campbellbarton closed 3 issues
        2010.11.30: ton closed 5 issues
        2010.11.30: blendix closed 2 issues
    ----- total 14 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 9
    2010.12.01
        2010.12.01: ton closed 7 issues
        2010.12.01: campbellbarton closed 8 issues
        2010.12.01: aligorith closed 3 issues
        2010.12.01: jhk closed 1 issues
        2010.12.01: blendix closed 6 issues
    ----- total 25 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 11
    2010.12.02
        2010.12.02: aligorith closed 1 issues
        2010.12.02: campbellbarton closed 4 issues
        2010.12.02: jhk closed 5 issues
        2010.12.02: ton closed 4 issues
    ----- total 14 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 8
    2010.12.03
        2010.12.03: campbellbarton closed 3 issues
        2010.12.03: aligorith closed 1 issues
        2010.12.03: jhk closed 3 issues
        2010.12.03: ton closed 7 issues
        2010.12.03: nazgul closed 1 issues
    ----- total 15 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 14
    2010.12.04
        2010.12.04: blendix closed 3 issues
        2010.12.04: campbellbarton closed 1 issues
        2010.12.04: ton closed 5 issues
    ----- total 9 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 3
During last 14 days we had 12 days where we closed more than there were new reports opened
168 days when we closed more than there were opened (458 days with open activity, 419 days with close activity)
524 opened and 631 closed since 2.55 beta
275 fixed since 2.55 beta, 2388 since tracker birth

Now for some SVN stats, I let the numbers speak for themselves.

Commits since 2.55 beta (r32738): 655 encompassing 172 additions, 2606 modifications, 26 deletes
Number of committers since 2.55 beta: 24

Authors and number of commits:
'dingto': 19,
'damien78': 5,
'jesterking': 21,
'zanqdo': 3,
'nazgul': 28,
'vekoon': 2,
'mfoxdogg': 1,
'ton': 75,
'blendix': 18,
'dfelinto': 4,
'aligorith': 18,
 'theeth': 13,
'broken': 5,
'nicholasbishop': 1,
'dougal2': 5,
'imbusy': 2,
'schlaile': 4,
'elubie': 13,
'jhk': 58,
'mindrones': 4,
'moguri': 7,
'campbellbarton': 330,
'gsrb3d': 15,
'nexyon': 4

And finally as an extra, here is the list of bugs that got marked fixed since Blender 2.55 beta:

#[19534] Crash adding/scaling plane in existing double array (temp fixed!)
#[19706] Smoke 'sticks' to Collision objects initial position
#[20241]  half-transparent objects in volume have no shadow.
#[20565] GLSL + Preview render cause crash
#[20620] VertColors and Flat/Soft imported from 2.49 are wrong (MultiRes)
#[20768] Project Snap Broken
#[20812] User preference window is not closing after browsing font's directory
#[21385] Multilayer OpenEXR files import into other compositors upside down
#[21893] Attempting to delete multiple edge loops changes selection.
#[21900] Multi-level library linking issue, SVN 27833 / 2.5A2
#[21958] Dupli group doesn't show up if linked on a layer that is different from the group layer
#[22052] OpenGL viewport render is distorted in 2.50a2
#[22415] VSE keyframes stoped keying
#[22456] Pivot Constraint
#[22478] altkey events sometimes 'get stuck'
#[22537] motion blur render result incorrect when full sample anti-aliasing is selected
#[22557] bpy.ops.wm.read_homefile() causes segfault (r29372)
#[22615] Opening a blend file in python (bpy.ops.wm.open_mainfile() (r29489)
#[22626] Crash when rendering an openGL animation
#[22635] Squence Editor, OpenGl preview render didn't correct
#[22638] Alpha channel not saved when using texture paint
#[22645] Texture paint: soften tool does draw brushes
#[22854] Objects lag behind mouse pointer when transformed (translated)
#[23095] If no camera is present, a render starts but does nothing, and we have no "No camera" warning
#[23118] Blender freezes when combing hair - OS X path changes related?
#[23152] Area light with noshadow is affected by rayshadow sampling setup (Kino Bug Reporting Sprint)
#[23155] Metastrip contents area allowed to move vertically, occasionally swapping order or overlapping
#[23318] SEQUENCER EFFECT: Glow blur amount should be relative
#[23406] DPX Images load darker then saved, UI broken.
#[23423] Multi-window : closing game windows cause blender crash
#[23482] Unneccessary and damaging user view called Temp
#[23532] bpy.ops.nla.actionclip_add results in the error 'no active track to add strip to' even though it should create the track itself
#[23576] Logic Bricks: non-active objects retrieves the wrong Actuator type
#[23609] Lamp PointerProperty
#[23677] Problem with raytrace - transparency - filter
#[23696] Receive Transparent produces shadows in diffuse pass
#[23710] 'repeat last' button doesnt' work with extrude along axes other than Z
#[23871] OSX panel button bug (Python Namespace issue)
#[23982] Display update with animated nested custom ID properties
#[24009] Crash when switching area types and performing ops
#[24170] Camera inside volume error
#[24197] Collada Import Bug From Sketchup
#[24266] OSX - Certain video codecs produce colour tinted output.
#[24287] Saving the render result through the API does not use the scene settings
#[24310] With high poly numbers when sculpting, modifier keys get "sticked" after 3D view navigation.
#[24335] Z-Combine node ignores alpha values (including patch)
#[24341] Problems running blender headless
#[24367] Incorrect behaviour for Optimal Display option
#[24374] VSE: Reassign Inputs ignores selection order.
#[24388] multires base mesh
#[24392] 2d Image paint editor: no clone/smear/soften tools etc
#[24398] Select Nth
#[24399] Add mesh grid upside down
#[24401] Fluid particles leak through walls of moving object
#[24403] Object.copy() duplicates armature action
#[24405] Import 3ds is not working when sys console toggle off
#[24407] Image browsing crashes blender
#[24409] Particle corruption after rendering with multires
#[24410] Srrollwheel errors in 3D view
#[24418] NLA Crashes blender on Undo
#[24419] Console Autocomplete Error [Patch to fix attached]
#[24422] Crash when switching to Point Select Mode - particle hair
#[24430] Hair Dynamics Problem
#[24431] Fast Gaussian produces wrong results for higher resolutions
#[24432] HS+V color picker
#[24435] GLSL 3D view lacks refresh on node setups
#[24436] GLSL + Node material gives wrong color
#[24439] Smear 2D paint fails
#[24440] Exporting FBX issue: unexpected keyword argument 'TX_SCALE'
#[24442] GLSL + VBOs
#[24445] NLA reverse option flickers
#[24448] User Preferences - Interface - Mini Axis - Brightness, none working?
#[24449] User Preferences - Interface - Manipulator
#[24450] Blender 2.54 crash when attempting to save render image
#[24451] Motion path not automatic recalculating + locking obj moving
#[24452] Can you build with MinGW+gcc in the current state?
#[24453] Audaspace leaks memory in sequencer
#[24454] blender-2.55 doesn't display it's menu bar
#[24455] Scene is left at last rendered frame from rendering an animation
#[24458] Problem with Axis Angle rotation
#[24462] UV Layouts saved as PNG results in two files (rename bug)
#[24464] Missing Icons
#[24465] OBJ import error Rev: 32789
#[24466] Selecting of object with pattern leads to strange behavior
#[24470] Ctrl+Tweak cutting connections fail
#[24476] The driver is not displayed in GraphEditor.
#[24477] Can easily create bones with duplicate names
#[24480] Axis Angle + manipulators: bad behaviour
#[24483] Link/Append File Browser Typo
#[24485] Applying scale to multires object end up in a blender crash
#[24489] decimate modifyer:  undecimated is "ratio 1.00%"
#[24491] not possible to create a new Rendering preset than "add render preset.py"
#[24492] Error Image Too Small! and doesnot work when render twice
#[24499] Consistency Issue with LassoSelect/ExtendOption
#[24501] Apeend object with cloth sim from another file crash.
#[24505] Python command bpy.ops.transform.rotate(...) does not follow axis=(...) attribute
#[24508] Render and changing scenes crashes.
#[24509] UV/Image Editor: selected elements move not as specified
#[24510] VSE SceneStrip problem when rendering animation
#[24513] VSE curves displaced from effect when source is moved numerically
#[24518] Blender wont compile with -Wall -Werror and COLLADA support
#[24523] Deep shadows are rendered although objetct's shadow casting is disabled
#[24524] Doing loop cuts from space bar search in the properties panel crashes 2.55
#[24529] Views Resizing Problems
#[24531] UV editor: setting rotating/scaling pivot with [ , ] [ . ] not working
#[24535] Layered NLA Strips crash Blender
#[24540] Adding the path to an image Editor in the file preferences window messes up the path
#[24548] Toggle Console Crashes Blender 64bit Windows 7
#[24552] exception when starting Blender on Windows XP SP3 (including solution)
#[24554] Blender does not remember name of last saved picture
#[24556] N Panel in Compositor doesn't work with Vector Normal node
#[24558] 2.55.0 Color Picker Square HS+V Behavior
#[24560] Cloth pinning breaks (when parenting?)
#[24565] editors/armature: overwritten return value
#[24568] The processing counter is not displayed in Bake.
#[24569] F11 no longer functional after image save
#[24570] Custom startup.blend causes Startup Crash
#[24573] Zoom view with RMB pressed, won't stick
#[24574] setting location gained from a matrix_world.copy().translation_part() (visual loc) after constraints causes NAN in object location after python script ends
#[24575] On file save plus and minus don't re-evaluate whether a file exists
#[24578] crash on browse directory w/ broken image file
#[24580] Particles render as frozen if start time is not 1.
#[24583] Mesh.from_pydata does not properly construct faces
#[24585] View Select breaks With Quad View.
#[24586] Report mode of console does not show proper cariage returns.
#[24589] Can't join two (or more) objects when one of them have multires and the other don't
#[24592] OpenCOLLADA imports only one special node per type per node
#[24593] Cloud Depth setting above 30 cause texture corruption
#[24594] Edge weighting while making subsurf
#[24596] Specular does not behave correctly in a material node setup
#[24597] Option External in Smoke cache affects settings of start and end frame of simulation
#[24601] Net rendering master node fails to send/retrieve files to/from slaves
#[24602] Netrender master node IP information is reset to [Default] no matter what
#[24603] Loop Cut & Slide + Clipping Border broken.
#[24606] Generators & FCurve keyframing are confusing for users.
#[24611] Netrender slave node invoked from CLI fills hard drive with blank pictures if master is down
#[24615] Indirect Lighting Option is occasionally not available.
#[24616] Apply Visual Transform doesn't always apply location
#[24617] Windows lib dir missing cp720.py from bundled Python.
#[24619] Small BMP 65x65 crashes Blender 2.55/ Windows
#[24621] NLA strips move insensitively across tracks
#[24623] VSE strip animation data out of sync after moving using shift-s
#[24625] Duplifaces not generated using spacebar to activate
#[24627] [minor] Object type is TEXT, but icon names are FONT
#[24628] two specific tooltips of keyboard sensor reversed
#[24631] array modifier, relative offset, units
#[24632] Sculpt Mode Context Set hotkeys (1..0, Shift+1..0) don't work
#[24634] Passing custom context to join operator doesn't work
#[24635] "Add Shortcut"
#[24638] Crash when parenting ni local view through the outliner
#[24639] Snap to Face (retopo) doesn't work when clipping is enabled in mirror modifier.
#[24643] Nurbs Surface Preview resolution overrides render resolution
#[24652] Project vertices button showing in object mode and leads to wrong behavior.
#[24654] Sound Actuator doesn't find the file when Blender is reopened.
#[24659] Wardiso slope slider is too sensitive (awkward to use)
#[24660] (vector * matrix) fails, (matrix * vector) succeeds
#[24663] Improved FBX export option
#[24665] mathutils.Matrix initialization is counter-intuitive and generates bugs
#[24668] Deleting armature objects removes a user from its action, eventually leading to data loss
#[24671] Operators called from Python Leak Memory
#[24672] Bone.evaluate_envelope() is misleading
#[24682] Render artifacts with mat node
#[24685] Changing mode bypasses undo suppression
#[24690] Scene.frame_set() breaks pose restore
#[24695] column_vector_multiplication call writes past end of array
#[24696] Export OBJ - Selection Only toggle button has the wrong default state.
#[24697] Trying to run bpy.ops.transform.create_orientation crashes Blender
#[24699] Crash when deleting shape keys with Graph Editor/Dope Sheet interaction
#[24702] 3Dmanipulator does not display if view's layers are not synchronize to scene's layers.
#[24704] UV editor: [x] modified does not update on change of modifiers
#[24706] 2.55 beta Hair now only rendering small fuzzy blob
#[24708] World Notifier Problems
#[24712] 3ds_import fix
#[24719] Layer ipocurves from Blender 2.49 wrongly ported to Blender 2.5x
#[24724] Emission settings of Particles with no physics are stuck to Previous newtonian settings.
#[24726] Second file load crashes
#[24737] PyCObject depreciated in py3k [patch]
#[24738] Help > Toggle System Console Crashes Blender (the second time)
#[24743] Strand Shading: Distance slider gives different results even when greyed out
#[24746] Align Camera to View locks 3D Editor in Camera Perspective View
#[24747] Blender crash entering in Sculpt Mode
#[24750] Particles draw percentage setting is not working in No Physics mode
#[24760] Bezier handles update [patch]
#[24761] minor bug - Modifiers don't "catches" Vertex Group renaming automatically
#[24762] Bezier Point Radius Cannot be Set When Curve is Created
#[24766] Crasher on inserting keyframe on Bezier points [33126]
#[24767] Knife tool last operations panel doesn't cause changes even though F6 pop-up does.
#[24773] Material Nodes - there isn't able to set keys on Mapping coordinates
#[24775] SubSurf IcoSphere as Boolean Modifier on Cube Causes Render Crash
#[24777] Scale both markers and keyframes at the same time?
#[24780] Metaballs are not drawn correctly in new scenes
#[24781] Can't use rest position / pose position on linked-group proxy armatures
#[24782] Proxy armature Layer state not saved with file (with linked characters)
#[24786] Setting Rotation Units to Radians doesn't affect the UI [33146]
#[24792] 3D view rendering issue after saving the file
#[24795] Pedantry, spelling error correction, particle_system.c
#[24796] Drivers are ineffective on Text & Curve obj. geometry parameters
#[24798] Texture panels are shown in wrong order
#[24801] Opening with Blender 2.5x a 2.49 file containing a Node Editor window raises an error
#[24802] Invert vertex group not inverting armature modifier influence
#[24803] Export UV Layout in PNG (default) corrupts Blendfile
#[24804] filetring of files doesnt work for import/export
#[24805] bpy operator runs in wrong order or is ignored at all
#[24807] nan pixel on Word BG with Angular Map coord texture
#[24810] Mist Settings Are Not Visually Updated When Camera Displays Mist
#[24812] Cannot change top/left/front views in quad view after camera change
#[24823] Add single to keying set for colour always adds red
#[24824] keying with colour picker open doesn't update
#[24825] Frame rate parts not drawn together well
#[24827] Crash when auto-keyframing while playing animation
#[24834] curves: extrude + bevel + uv as generated
#[24837] Small Typo PIX instead of PIZ compression
#[24838] Light inside Volume material drops on it's walls - it may be double
#[24843] ctrl+z crashes blender
#[24844] Crash related to the subdivision (aka subsurf) modifier
#[24847] Reports on the Info Header cause flicker
#[24848] Using an operator outside of edit mode crashes blender
#[24849] changing objects to another layer causes segmentation fault
#[24855] Ambient occlusion and Environmental lighting
#[24856] Drawing of the layer display is abnormal.
#[24860] Align to View fails in numerous ways
#[24862] Fluid Simulator issues
#[24866] object/transform/align objects error
#[24869] Freeing an image, problems with GPU_texture_vram function usage.
#[24870] ObjectActuator.offset_rotation in radians
#[24871] Unwrapping with Smart Project give a bad result.
#[24877] Cloth + hair bug
#[24879] "Feather" symmetry option in sculpt mode crashes.
#[24882] fbx exporter Krash, screw objects and animations
#[24884] Loading any preset leads to crash
#[24887] Crash on snapping verts on other object
#[24890] Particle cache reading crash
#[24891] Normal issues with circles curves.
#[24893] Minor error message glitch
#[24899] Sequence Transform strips don't apply animation properly to scale.
#[24900] Texture paint mode broken
#[24903] GRLESS key unavailable (not mappable)
#[24905] renaming a UV channel name does not update texture uv channel mapping settings
#[24907] bone roll z up broken and python script showing correct method to roll bones
#[24908] (Quick Edit) ...not working
#[24910] When smoke domains are overlapping, one is hidden by the other
#[24913] Text bevel normals wrong
#[24914] 3D text glitch and crash
#[24916] Blender Crash after inappropriate  Merge-Command
#[24921] Crash after inserting keyframing UV coords and changing frame in edit mode
#[24923] Misleading tooltip for Indirect Lighting Falloff Strength
#[24933] Scale change in Texture and re-render gives weird dots
#[24934] Particle single user crash
#[24935] Proportional translation size stuck to none
#[24938] Seed value on Particle settings gives Error when trying to insert key
#[24944] Crash on attempting to keyframe HSV color
#[24947] Animations data replaced by the first animation (fbx exporter)
#[24953] Compositor texture size not updating
#[24954] "Export UV Layout" stalls when saving file in 2.55b
#[24955] Generating UV-Images within blender (Alt-N) not possible
#[24958] Cloth pinning not working
#[24963] Smoke crash
#[24964] HISTOGRAM: Inconsistency in spaces
#[24965] Strange smoke cache behavior
#[24969] Python Console bug: inserting a large text leads to strange caret behavior
#[24970] blender crashes on mac osx, when icon view for texture import is set
#[24971] Lowest visible object not always selectable in outliner
#[24974] "select all" in weight paint -> face selection mode selects all bones instead of all faces
#[24976] multilayer node hides its channels
#[24986] Invert in mask modifier is not duplicated
#[24990] When extruding bones the outliner does not immediately update
#[24999] Array Merge First Last checked causes crash when adding a circle into a mesh
#[25001] Enable Smoke High Resolution is greyout after baking
#[25010] Memory leaks when scripting panels and file selectors
#[25015] Ctrl+L linking to scene list does not scroll when the list is larger than screen resolution
#[25017] Bezier Curve Deform Twisting after adding Shape Keys
#[25026] switch direction on a path crash
#[25028] The axes of an empty object are not displayed correctly.
#[25029] selecting a bone in pose mode crashes blender
#[25033] All faces are two sided in GLSL and missing featue from 2.4x

Upgrade of projects.blender.org

jesterKing — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 20:26:35 +0000

I’ve been busy with getting the upgrade of our Projects website (http://projects.blender.org) working properly. As you may know, our current site is severely limited in its usefulness for user, especially when it comes to searching for and reporting of bugs. A combination of old software and a bad database forced us to close down some of the areas, put them behind login. This is not very nice for the user (neither for the developer), and one of the symptoms is a lot of duplicate reports.

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)

Blender Foundation: Status Update Week 47

jesterKing — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 18:13:19 +0000

My time on the bug tracker has been pretty minimal, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been active! I’ve started tagging pages on the wiki that I’m going to work on, or am already working on with the newly created {{Warning/Working/Development}} template. With this I can communicate to people that I’m working on those pages. I try to include a smart message about why I’m working on it. In the coming time you’ll see more updates on the wiki, with a steady convergance on a better structured content and less duplication. There are some wildly old pages on the wiki, that can be merged with newer documents, and so on.

Further I’ve been working on the upgrade for our beloved/infamous projects site https://projects.blender.org. This week I’ve been looking into getting the database into shape. Most of it now works, and after some cleanup I even managed to get the search time down from around 10 minutes to 1 second. A pretty cool speed-up if I may say. Next week I’ll continue with this work. There are still some issues with the upgrade that I need to weed out, before we have a properly working upgrade. Things that still go wrong are: activity_vw table not recreated, workflow not working, reporting seems to be non-functional and partly the bug tracker browsing does weird things. When the database upgrade is done we will have to check SVN integration and move the existing repositories to the new system.

Blender Foundation: Status Update Week 46

jesterKing — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 20:17:23 +0000

This week I’ve fixed 4 bugs and closed several more reports. Most of the time went into checking the tracker and commenting. I’ve applied two COLLADA patches, one by Martijn Berger and one from Wenzel Jakob.

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.

Blender Foundation: Status Update Week 45

jesterKing — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 20:22:04 +0000

Last week has been mostly about going over existing documentation and figuring out what to do with the organisation of the different places where we provide documentation. Currently we have a section on main www.blender.org, and a section under wiki.blender.org. This will be consolidated, having most of the content moved to the wiki, where it can be maintained better by all active developers.

For the developer documentation I’ve been writing a SVN+Git tutorial, recording a 20+ minute session explaining a simple workflow with this. More developer documentation on the codebase, development pipeline and so on will follow.

Tracker work has been on the slow side from my part, mostly commenting on reports and assigning to active developers; actually closing reports a grand total of 3.

From next week on I’ll be concentrating again more on the tracker, but also put in time for the documentation. The time division will be 50%-50% for the tasks.

Concluding with some stats:

    2010.11.08
        2010.11.08: campbellbarton closed 6 issues
        2010.11.08: jhk closed 3 issues
        2010.11.08: jesterking closed 1 issues
        2010.11.08: nazgul closed 1 issues
    ----- total 11 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 15
    2010.11.09
        2010.11.09: jhk closed 4 issues
        2010.11.09: nazgul closed 1 issues
        2010.11.09: theeth closed 2 issues
        2010.11.09: ton closed 4 issues
        2010.11.09: campbellbarton closed 12 issues
        2010.11.09: blendix closed 1 issues
    ----- total 24 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 13
    2010.11.10
        2010.11.10: ton closed 24 issues
        2010.11.10: jhk closed 2 issues
        2010.11.10: campbellbarton closed 8 issues
        2010.11.10: nazgul closed 1 issues
    ----- total 35 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 16
    2010.11.11
        2010.11.11: aligorith closed 2 issues
        2010.11.11: campbellbarton closed 1 issues
        2010.11.11: jhk closed 3 issues
        2010.11.11: nazgul closed 1 issues
        2010.11.11: ton closed 17 issues
        2010.11.11: blendix closed 1 issues
    ----- total 25 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 17
    2010.11.12
        2010.11.12: elubie closed 1 issues
        2010.11.12: aligorith closed 1 issues
        2010.11.12: jhk closed 2 issues
        2010.11.12: jesterking closed 2 issues
        2010.11.12: nazgul closed 1 issues
        2010.11.12: campbellbarton closed 4 issues
        2010.11.12: blendix closed 1 issues
        2010.11.12: ton closed 15 issues
        2010.11.12: gsrb3d closed 1 issues
    ----- total 28 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 19
    2010.11.13
        2010.11.13: blendix closed 1 issues
        2010.11.13: jhk closed 1 issues
        2010.11.13: aligorith closed 1 issues
        2010.11.13: nexyon closed 1 issues
    ----- total 4 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 9
    2010.11.14
        2010.11.14: campbellbarton closed 6 issues
        2010.11.14: theeth closed 1 issues
        2010.11.14: ton closed 5 issues
        2010.11.14: mindrones closed 1 issues
        2010.11.14: dfelinto closed 1 issues
    ----- total 14 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 12
During last 14 days we had 9 days where we closed more than there were new reports opened
153 days when we closed more than there were opened (438 days with open activity, 399 days with close activity)
260 opened and 280 closed since 2.55 beta
116 fixed since 2.55 beta, 2229 since tracker birth

Already a huge amount of reports since 2.55 beta was released (and fortunately even more closed), but it is obvious that users do want to participate in improving Blender. It’s good to see Ton being in business again, too.

I’ll be adding some more stats, like amount of duplicate reports and rejected reports.

I still need to update the scripts to properly do axis for the graphs, otherwise they don’t make that much sense (although they do give some sense of the progress).

Blender Foundation: Status Update Week 44

jesterKing — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 12:04:21 +0000

As per recent tradition, this update is late too. There are not many interesting things to tell though. Most of the time went into handling Blender 2.55 release. Much of it behind the scenes with trying to solve issues with the 64bit Blender build for Linux, which is currently still not published. I’ll put it online the moment I get word it’s ready and tested.

Further I have been drafting locally a setup for the developer documentation, on which I’ll be working in the coming time more. Expect some publications on the wiki (in the form of updated pages and new pages). A svn+git tutorial will be part of this, as I think it is a powerful way for non-committers to work on our source code and still be able to commit locally without much hassle.

Week 44 has been a bit depressing, with open bug reports over 200. It shows that we really need our active, dedicated bug fixing effort to handle all the reports. On the positive note, it means our users are actively trying to help improving Blender by submitting bug reports, which is a good thing too! Hopefully my short talk on bug reporting during the conference helped a bit.

    2010.11.01
        2010.11.01: blendix closed 5 issues
        2010.11.01: jhk closed 5 issues
        2010.11.01: campbellbarton closed 7 issues
        2010.11.01: dingto closed 1 issues
    ----- total 18 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 17
    2010.11.02
        2010.11.02: dingto closed 1 issues
        2010.11.02: jhk closed 1 issues
        2010.11.02: zanqdo closed 1 issues
        2010.11.02: nazgul closed 1 issues
        2010.11.02: campbellbarton closed 5 issues
        2010.11.02: blendix closed 6 issues
    ----- total 15 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 7
    2010.11.03
        2010.11.03: theeth closed 1 issues
        2010.11.03: jhk closed 2 issues
        2010.11.03: campbellbarton closed 7 issues
        2010.11.03: nazgul closed 1 issues
    ----- total 11 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 14
    2010.11.04
        2010.11.04: jhk closed 3 issues
        2010.11.04: jesterking closed 4 issues
        2010.11.04: nazgul closed 1 issues
        2010.11.04: campbellbarton closed 4 issues
        2010.11.04: blendix closed 14 issues
        2010.11.04: dfelinto closed 1 issues
    ----- total 27 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 21
    2010.11.05
        2010.11.05: aligorith closed 2 issues
        2010.11.05: campbellbarton closed 7 issues
    ----- total 9 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 18
    2010.11.06
        2010.11.06: blendix closed 8 issues
        2010.11.06: campbellbarton closed 1 issues
        2010.11.06: theeth closed 1 issues
        2010.11.06: jesterking closed 3 issues
    ----- total 13 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 11
    2010.11.07
        2010.11.07: blendix closed 3 issues
        2010.11.07: jhk closed 2 issues
        2010.11.07: campbellbarton closed 5 issues
        2010.11.07: elubie closed 1 issues
    ----- total 11 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 21

As you can see, two days where we got more than we managed. We should be seeing better looking stats from Week 45 onwards again, though. As of this exact moment we have 223 reports open still. So lots of work to do.

Some stats generated today (so partly already Week 45 work, but still gives an indication of where we are):

During last 7 days we had 6 days where we closed more than there were new reports opened
149 days when we closed more than there were opened (432 days with open activity, 393 days with close activity)
171 opened and 149 closed since 2.55 beta
75 fixed since 2.55 beta, 2188 since tracker birth

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jesterKing — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 11:14:07 +0000

If you like to keep up-to-date on micro-level, then follow my doings at http://twitter.com/nathanletwory

Blender Foundation: Status Update Week 43

jesterKing — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 23:43:00 +0000

So, a quick status update from last week. During the begin of the week I was busy with fixing up our installer script, so that it won’t delete everything without properly warning and so on. After that I did release log work, some SVN and tracker stats for the period Blender 2.54-Blender 2.55. On Thursday I travelled to the Netherlands or the Blender Conference 2010, so I haven’t been able to do much sensible on the bug tracker or related work. On next Tuesday I’ll probably will finally press the release button on 2.55. I hope the users can wait for a few more moments before they can download a new official release

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 )

My legs! MY LEGS!

jesterKing — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 22:56:02 +0000

End of day 2, Blender Conference 2010. Two days full of talks and workshops, what a bustle and vibrant time. And being speaker assistance also a lot of running, talking to many people, connecting, this, that, quickly here, be in a minute with your, there, back again, double-check everything is ok, you’re good now? sure, right after this I’ll be there.

But it’s all a great time! It’s great to see so many people in one place, interested all in Blender and presenting their usage of Blender, their ideas they have, their needs, their visions. It’s clear that Blender is pretty widely used in the academic world, and in such a wide variety of disciplines.

The Suzanne Awards Festival was a great watch too. A great many entries in the socalled Selection-section: great entries, that were not eligable for participation, or the maker(s) didn’t want it to participate. And then the actual nominees. All in all high level of quality.

I most not forget to mention the huge 4K-screen that we have in the entrance hall. Scenes from Sintel rendered in the huge resolution, as well as stills from Big Buck Bunny rendered for the occasion. Such a huge resolution is pretty unforgiving though, clearly the bowl from which Sintel is drinking needs at least one more subdiv level added! But it looks impressive on the large screen.

I’m happy that I’ve been able to shortly talk to some people a bit more than the quick moments for help, and I’m looking forward to be in contact with as many of those people as possible. The conference is also just so full of potential for just about anything!

Anyway, enough rambling, I should start on the weekly report before a deserved nights rest. An extra hour of sleep even. Woohoo!

Blender Foundation: Status Update Week 42

jesterKing — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 15:48:59 +0000

Last week I’ve been working on GHOST issues on Windows, fixing problems with modifier keys, some of them because I did some improper checks on what is used where. Shift+numpad keys are still a problem, but I’ll continue working on finding a solution for this.

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

Blender Foundation: Status Update Week 41

jesterKing — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 16:12:17 +0000

Last week has been a bit of a hassle. Tuesday and wednesday I was out of development a lot, since I did some rebuilding of my ‘wardrobe’. I use an Ikea wardrobe to house my machines, but they stood there just as machines. Airflow was less than optimal, so I had to keep one door always open. I decided to do something about it. I removed the big plank in the middle and put a Elfa organiser system in place. I removed the casings from my computers and put the componenst into the organiser system. For cooling I got 4 large Noctua fans. The wardrobe is now much cooler, I can even leave the doors closed for long times. The system is not finished by a long shot. I still need to saw some good air vents at the top of the thing for outlet, and at the bottom for intake. Then install the fans properly, install silencer mats and so on. After that I’ve been working hard on getting back on track with time usage.

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

Blender Foundation: Status Update Week 40

jesterKing — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 21:28:57 +0000

Another week draws to an end. Our bug fixing efforts are still on-going. I haven’t been too active on the tracker this week though. I’ve been busy preparing the COLLADA code to build on in the coming time for the slew of bug reports that have been opened for it. Everything was in two huge files, which made it quite hard to work properly with the code. So instead of just diving straight into the bug fixing mode, I decided to refactor it into a number of files. Some nasty surprises were lying around (functors outside of structs or classes), but in the end I think I nailed most of it. The refactor for that is about completed (the odd class still not done), but it should be good now for continuing work on the COLLADA bugs in our tracker.

Apart from this I updated and/or rebuilt a number of dependencies: OpenEXR and IlmBase (debug libraries), OpenCOLLADA (my two patches for it were accepted upstream) and I built lcms libraries, enabling lcms support for Windows in our CMake and SCons build systems. Today I also quickly enabled CXX_GUARDEDALLOC support through SCons, which was available only for CMake users before.

For OpenCOLLADA builders should be advised that current dependencies in lib/windows and lib/win64 mean that COLLADA support can be built only with compilers that have unordered_map and unordered_hash support (TR1). This means for MSVS 2008 that you’ll probably need the VC++ 2008 Feature Pack installed if you already haven’t. I think VC++ 2010 already has this, but I’m not sure, as I have only MSVS 2008 Professional. So for those who use the VC++ 2008 express version, I’m afraid that won’t work too well for building COLLADA support – I heard that installing the VC++ 2008 Feature Pack doesn’t work for it.

Numbers and graphs (due to COLLADA work I’ve not continued the work on the scripts as I promised previous week):

2010.10.02
        2010.10.02: nexyon closed 1 issues
        2010.10.02: blendix closed 14 issues
        2010.10.02: damien78 closed 1 issues
        2010.10.02: nazgul closed 2 issues
----- total 18 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 16
2010.10.03
        2010.10.03: campbellbarton closed 1 issues
        2010.10.03: jesterking closed 3 issues
        2010.10.03: blendix closed 2 issues
        2010.10.03: nazgul closed 1 issues
----- total 7 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 11
2010.10.04
        2010.10.04: campbellbarton closed 3 issues
        2010.10.04: jhk closed 1 issues
        2010.10.04: jesterking closed 1 issues
----- total 5 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 14
2010.10.05
        2010.10.05: blendix closed 6 issues
        2010.10.05: jesterking closed 3 issues
        2010.10.05: campbellbarton closed 11 issues
        2010.10.05: jhk closed 5 issues
        2010.10.05: nazgul closed 3 issues
----- total 28 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 15
2010.10.06
        2010.10.06: blendix closed 3 issues
        2010.10.06: jhk closed 4 issues
        2010.10.06: theeth closed 1 issues
        2010.10.06: campbellbarton closed 11 issues
        2010.10.06: jesterking closed 1 issues
----- total 20 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 16
2010.10.07
        2010.10.07: jesterking closed 5 issues
        2010.10.07: jhk closed 6 issues
        2010.10.07: campbellbarton closed 2 issues
        2010.10.07: nazgul closed 2 issues
----- total 15 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 8
2010.10.08
        2010.10.08: blendix closed 1 issues
        2010.10.08: jesterking closed 1 issues
        2010.10.08: campbellbarton closed 4 issues
        2010.10.08: jhk closed 4 issues
        2010.10.08: nazgul closed 1 issues
----- total 11 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 8

During last 7 days we had 5 days where we closed more than there were new reports opened
132 days when we closed more than there were opened (401 days with open activity, 362 days with close activity)
358 opened and 508 closed since 2.54 beta

Blender Foundation: Status Update Week 39

jesterKing — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 09:27:27 +0000

And another week has gone by, full of bug fixing and report tending. I closed over 30 reports of which 5 I fixed, the rest were either duplicates, todos or rejected. I fixed some unreported bugs too.

I cleaned out the trunk from the project files, and I fixed our CMake for Windows project files to properly copy the correct Python DLL and modules. For this I also committed the Python modules unpacked to our dependencies directories.

I enabled multilayer EXR files as textures.

I am slowly taking more ownership over our COLLADA code too. I fixed camera import and export and the odd crash that could happen when exporting uvlayers with image textures that didn’t have images set. I also fixed our COLLADA import to name the uvlayers as per semantic; for this I patched OpenCOLLADA and submitted the patch: here. The Windows libraries have been updated, Linux and OSX users need to patch themselves until committed. Test builds for Windows have been updated too, for that see the right sidebar.

I started changing yesterday the graph creation scripts, so until that’s done I now give just the numbers:

2010.09.27
        2010.09.27: schlaile closed 1 issues
        2010.09.27: aligorith closed 1 issues
        2010.09.27: dingto closed 1 issues
        2010.09.27: jhk closed 2 issues
        2010.09.27: jesterking closed 4 issues
        2010.09.27: campbellbarton closed 7 issues
        2010.09.27: blendix closed 4 issues
----- total 20 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 20
2010.09.28
        2010.09.28: jesterking closed 12 issues
        2010.09.28: jhk closed 4 issues
        2010.09.28: campbellbarton closed 5 issues
        2010.09.28: blendix closed 2 issues
----- total 23 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 10
2010.09.29
        2010.09.29: damien78 closed 1 issues
        2010.09.29: jhk closed 4 issues
        2010.09.29: jesterking closed 8 issues
        2010.09.29: nazgul closed 1 issues
        2010.09.29: campbellbarton closed 2 issues
        2010.09.29: blendix closed 2 issues
----- total 18 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 7
2010.09.30
        2010.09.30: aligorith closed 3 issues
        2010.09.30: blendix closed 15 issues
        2010.09.30: jesterking closed 5 issues
        2010.09.30: campbellbarton closed 3 issues
        2010.09.30: jhk closed 4 issues
----- total 30 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 12
2010.10.01
        2010.10.01: jesterking closed 7 issues
        2010.10.01: campbellbarton closed 8 issues
        2010.10.01: blendix closed 4 issues
----- total 19 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 16
2010.10.02
        2010.10.02: nexyon closed 1 issues
        2010.10.02: blendix closed 14 issues
        2010.10.02: damien78 closed 1 issues
        2010.10.02: nazgul closed 2 issues
----- total 18 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 15
2010.10.03
        2010.10.03: blendix closed 2 issues
        2010.10.03: jesterking closed 1 issues
----- total 3 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 3

* During last 7 days we had 5 days where we closed more than there were new reports opened
* 288 opened and 425 closed since 2.54 beta

Blender 2.5 – r32239

jesterKing — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 21:33:17 +0000

Hi, I’ve updated my builds over on Graphicall.org again.

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

Enjoy!

Manipulator Rulers in Naali

jesterKing — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 11:49:33 +0000

I’ve finally managed to integrate the Ruler code into the editing tools. I already worked on this during the summer, but other tasks were necessary to do, too.

The rulers are far from completed, but having this functional integration ready I can start working on the really cool looking features for these rulers.

There are obviously already the manipulators, and they do help a lot in visualising what and how to edit objects. The rulers will greatly enhance that experience, giving nice anchors and direction for the transforms.

Think of grids, pies and ladders.

Blender Foundation: Status Update Week 38

jesterKing — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 23:37:00 +0000

Just like previous week, I’ve been concentrating on bug fixing. Although we’re doing a lot of work in this area, user keep finding new issues and reporting them! (Which is a good thing of course). I’ve handled over 30 reports to some closed state (duplicate, todo, fixed, rejected), and more I had under my magnifier glass to get backtraces, or more info. Not much exciting info I guess (cool new features), but the numbers show clear progress. Day by day we get closer to the moment that we can say that Blender is stable. Not tomorrow, but who knows, maybe this year

2010.09.20
        2010.09.20: blendix closed 9 issues
        2010.09.20: campbellbarton closed 11 issues
        2010.09.20: jesterking closed 6 issues
        2010.09.20: jhk closed 5 issues
        2010.09.20: broken closed 1 issues
----- total 32 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 12
2010.09.21
        2010.09.21: jesterking closed 6 issues
        2010.09.21: jhk closed 2 issues
        2010.09.21: campbellbarton closed 5 issues
        2010.09.21: zanqdo closed 1 issues
        2010.09.21: blendix closed 3 issues
----- total 17 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 16
2010.09.22
        2010.09.22: campbellbarton closed 12 issues
        2010.09.22: jhk closed 2 issues
        2010.09.22: jesterking closed 15 issues
        2010.09.22: nazgul closed 1 issues
----- total 30 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 18
2010.09.23
        2010.09.23: campbellbarton closed 10 issues
        2010.09.23: jhk closed 2 issues
        2010.09.23: jesterking closed 6 issues
        2010.09.23: blendix closed 9 issues
----- total 27 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 8
2010.09.24
        2010.09.24: jesterking closed 3 issues
        2010.09.24: jhk closed 9 issues
        2010.09.24: campbellbarton closed 4 issues
        2010.09.24: zanqdo closed 1 issues
        2010.09.24: blendix closed 2 issues
----- total 19 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 8
2010.09.25
        2010.09.25: blendix closed 11 issues
        2010.09.25: dingto closed 1 issues
        2010.09.25: campbellbarton closed 1 issues
        2010.09.25: nazgul closed 2 issues
----- total 15 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 14
2010.09.26
        2010.09.26: schlaile closed 1 issues
        2010.09.26: blendix closed 10 issues
        2010.09.26: jesterking closed 1 issues
        2010.09.26: dingto closed 1 issues
----- total 13 bugs closed. New bugs for this day: 17

Blender 2.5 – r32059

jesterKing — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:02:50 +0000

Hi, I’ve updated my builds over on Graphicall.org again.

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

Enjoy!

Blender Foundation: Status Update Week 37

jesterKing — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 23:13:43 +0000

And again, a day or two too late! I’ll just pretend that good things are worth waiting for.

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.

Blender Foundation: Status Update Week 36

jesterKing — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 10:26:19 +0000

Last week I’ve been closing some more reports, 23 in total. I’m also still working on some scripts to help me with both generating stats and some graphs. I also worked on the release logs, reading through 5000 lines of svn log. With the imminent release of Blender 2.54 we’ll have a good basis to work from, both statistically and in terms of stabilizing and finalizing Blender, to pull out of the Beta stage.

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