User:Mont29/Foundation/2016

Weekly Reports for Year 2016

Week 172 - 12/24 to 12/30

Spent the week-end again on task scheduler issue, then switched to more useful things, like… tracker mostly.

• General Development:
  • Worked on threading (scheduler) performance issues (depsgraph performances) (lots of trying with not much success, see D2426 and D2435).
  • Worked on static ID override.
  • Usual i18n update.

• Bug Tracker:
  • BT misc (general check, assign & close work).
  • Fixed #50306 Unexpected behavior with brilliant diamond object (rBAb674c49).
  • Fixed #50305 Blender truncates a long multibyte character object's name to an invalid utf-8 string (rB752a783f).
  • Fixed #50334 Appended group not selected (rB934b3f36).
  • Reviewed/committed (with changes) D2349 Add more information to the error message on missing image editor (rBcabd2dce).
  • Reviewed/committed D2436 Fix incorrect spelling (rB45d0231a).
  • Reviewed/committed D2328 Update link in template (rB11ae06b0).
  • Reviewed/committed D2256 Do not use subsurf in tooltips + doc spelling (rBa5224699).
  • Reviewed/committed D2420 Icon only flag for UILayout.prop_enum function (rB2412e67e).
  • Reviewed D2423 Layouts with fixed size.
  • Reviewed D2427 Hide shortcuts from buttons in popups.
  • Reviewed/committed D2270 Spelling fix in freestyle output (rB7ba2356a).
  • Reviewed/committed D2430 Add a new operator - bpy.ops.ed.undo_redo() (rBbf7d7bc3).

Fixed: 3; Reviewed: 9; Closed: 12;

• Next week:
  • Usual BT & patches work…
  • More assets/poselib related work.

Week 171 - 12/17 to 12/23

Spent most of the week trying to teach our task scheduler to not waste too much time on task management (critical when fed with thousands of very small/simple tasks, as done currently by the new depsgraph), with no real solution. Was a fun way to waste time. :|

• General Development:
  • Worked on adding do_versions_after_liblink() to read code (D2422).
  • Worked on threading issues (depsgraph performances).

• Bug Tracker:
  • BT misc (general check, assign & close work).
  • Fixed (unreported) linked datablocks going through do_versions several times (rBbd429873).
  • Fixed (unreported) --threads option no more respected by main task scheduler (rB8db2f729).

Unreported fixes: 2; Closed: 1;

• Next week:
  • Usual BT & patches work…
  • More assets/poselib related work.

Week 170 - 12/10 to 12/16

Finished first working proof-of-concept static ID override. Also spent a whole day on patch review, those tend to pile up easily. :/

• General Development:
  • Worked on static ID override, submitted first proof-of-concept working patch for initial (quick) review (D2417).
  • Updated/enhanced a bit multi-previews ID branch.
  • Did some cleanup in ID management area (rBefadc805, rBb708dce3, rB62703850).
  • Refactored RNA property: split flags in property flags, parameter flags, and internal flags (D2400, rB440d1042).
  • Usual i18n updates.
  • Updated py API doc.

• Bug Tracker:
  • BT misc (general check, assign & close work).
  • Fixed #50244: bam pack with -m FILE fails on copying deeper hierachies because of missing destination folders (rBAMb75b74).
  • Fixed (unreported) own stupid mistake in recent 'repo base' new option for bam pack (rBAMac0c83).
  • Fixed (unreported) temp dir not being removed by bam pack -m FILE (rBAM89fe6b).
  • Fixed (unreported) some RNA func definitions setting flags of other func parameters (rB7415b9ff)!
  • Reviewed/committed D2414: Fix #50235, wireframe transparency in UV layout export (rBAe7c7ef6).
  • Reviewed D2150: GSoC 2016: Added PBVH based vertex and weight painting to Blender.
  • Reviewed D2410: Fix T50216.
  • Reviewed D2412: Render layer and collections.
  • Reviewed D2407: Implement combined interpolated vertex weights (aka Weight Keys).
  • Reviewed D113: Datablock ID Properties.

Fixed: 1; Unreported fixes: 3; Reviewed: 6; Closed: 17;

• Next week:
  • Usual BT & patches work…
  • More assets/poselib related work.

Week 169 - 12/03 to 12/09

Worked on ID/asset-related topics, mostly on first prototype of ID static override.

• General Development:
  • Fixed/tweaked a bit asset engine code.
  • Refactored RNA property flags (separating property, internal and parameter ones, and some general cleanup, D2400).
  • Started working on static ID override.

• Bug Tracker:
  • BT misc (general check, assign & close work).
  • Fixed #49893: Crash in Video Sequence Editor with 'drop' effect (rB8f29503b).
  • Fixed (irc-reported) install_deps.sh failing to build ffmpeg 3 (rBa63108ef)
  • Fixed (unreported) Sequencer Drop effect: wrong initial offset in second input buffer (rBfc4a51e3).
  • Reviewed/accepted D2393 Fix #50141.
  • Reviewed D2403: Compositor: Make HSV node inputs a real sockets.

Fixed: 1; Unreported fixes: 2; Reviewed: 2; Closed: 13;

• Next week:
  • Usual BT & patches work…
  • More assets/poselib related work.

Week 168 - 11/26 to 12/02

Finished various stuff (newid usage cleanup, gridflow layout…), also Blender 2.8 workflow workshop & its sequels, and went over PBVH painting GSoC patch once more (that one is nearly ready to merge now).

• General Development:
  • Blender 2.8 workflow workshop!
  • Added new option to bam pack to keep whole hierarchy of repo in packed archive (rBAM127843).
  • Cleaned up id->newid usage (now you can assume it’s clean by default, users need to ensure that - and not set automatically by ID copy anymore, rBdf63195d).
  • blendfile.py: Added support reading single char DNA values as unsigned integer (rBAecf6619).
  • Finished first version of enhanced 'grid flow' uilayout (current one has annoying limitations, main one being only column-major, D2395).

• Bug Tracker:
  • BT misc (general check, assign & close work).
  • Fixed #50062 Mask - Clicking in ActivePoint Parent makes Blender crash (rB0c958b9f).
  • Fixed more (un)registering issues in view3d_copy_attribute addon (rBA07c0aac).
  • Fixed (unreported) memleak in ImBuf mipmap code in some cases (rBa4c65584).
  • Reviewed/cleaned up pbvh gsoc (for painting vertices, D2150, b405a2e4c0, b5d2473730).
  • Reviewed D2386 Fix for #50097.
  • Reviewed D2375 Move ccgDM and emDM's looptri array recalculation from *DM_getLoopTriArray to *DM_recalcLoopTri

Fixed: 1; Unreported fixes: 2; Reviewed: 3; Closed: 18;

• Next week:
  • Usual BT & patches work…
  • More assets/poselib related work.

Week 167 - 11/19 to 11/25

Again mostly enhancements in ID management area, and new developments needed for the 'poselib' project. And some workshop preparation...

• General Development:
  • Worked on enhanced 'grid flow' uilayout (current one has annoying limitations, main one being only column-major).
  • Worked on cleaning up ID->newid usage (see id_newid_optional branch).
  • Blender 2.8 workflow workshop!

• Bug Tracker:
  • BT misc (general check, assign & close work).
  • Fixed #49991 reloading librairies doesn't update node groups (rB369872a2).
  • Fixed #50101: FBX Import only works once per session (rBA8f659b0).
  • Fixed (unreported) two issues in NodeTree code (rBbd6a9fd7, rBfa6a62fa).
  • Fixed (unreported) crash when drawing armatures' poses in some cases (rB1be717d0).
  • Fixed (unreported) Install_deps: warning message not showing up in case build fails (rB67b1979c).
  • Reviewed/committed D50078 Fix T50078: Vertex Groups not copied over when making proxy (rB8c93178c).

Fixed: 2; Unreported fixes: 3; Reviewed: 1; Closed: 1;

• Next week:
  • Usual BT & patches work…
  • More assets/poselib related work.

Week 166 - 11/12 to 11/18

Quite intense week, shared between more fixes/enhancements in ID management area, and new developments needed for the 'poselib' project.

• General Development:
  • Investigated further enhancements to new MakeLocal, nothing usable though... will wait for proxies to go into canal for more!
  • Fixed/enhanced multi_preview code to ease generating previews directly from render result images (rB65b4a9f4).
  • Worked on enhanced 'flow' uilayout (current one has annoying limitations, main one being only column-major).
  • Updated py API doc.
  • Usual i18n weekly update.
  • Built/submitted new Coverity build.

• Bug Tracker:
  • BT misc (general check, assign & close work).
  • Fixed #50007 blender offline python documentation in zipped HTML files, not shown correctly (rB7e8bf9db).
  • Fixed #50013 Blender 2.78a Link/Append Crash (rB1b1d6ce1).
  • Fixed #50046 Segmentation fault due to out-of-range VertexGroup.weight() call (rB209bc997).
  • Fixed #50045 FBX Export Scale (global_scale) is applied twice (rBAafeee19).
  • Fixed #50052 bpy.utils.unregister_module doesn't unregister classes of submodules (rB8f0dc3ce).
  • Fixed #50071 Radience HDR fomat alpha (rBb6c0edcb).
  • Fixed custom props not being handled correctly by manual/pyref UI menu entries (rBe17b92f5, rBA579118c).
  • Fixed issues reported by latest coverity scan (rBb859fef6, rB841c4dee).
  • Fixed (unreported) bad code in unregister of space_view3d_copy_attribute (rBA4f2529b).
  • Fixed (unreported) bad handling of brush fill threshold (rBf6083b7b).
  • Fixed (unreported) Node space ID remap callback not handling node trees. (rB884693b4).
  • Fixed (unreported) forward-compat Nodes write code being executed also for undo steps writing. (rB5a6534a5).
  • Reviewed/committed fix for #50035 Minor interface bug: UV/ImageEditor - Paint Mode - Fill Brush (rB27de0c40).

Fixed: 6; Unreported fixes: 6; Reviewed: 1; Closed: 14;

• Next week:
  • Usual BT & patches work…
  • More assets/poselib related work.

Week 165 - 11/05 to 11/11

Rather frustrating week, spent most of the time chasing complex and elusive bugs, several of them being already fixed in master in the end… :/

• General Development:
  • Added to blend2json.py script ability to only export some data fields (based on name filtering, rBDT620e9b).
  • Updated/reworked multi-frame preview RNA access (multi-dim arrays are not an option here, way too slow).
  • Usual i18n update.
  • Made "Make Local" 4 times quicker than in 2.78a release for complex scenes (among other improvements, rBf6ab97c1).

• Bug Tracker:
  • BT misc (general check, assign & close work).
  • Fixed (Agent-team reported) crash happening in some cases with MakeLocal operator (rBed957768).

Fixed: 1; Closed: 20;

• Next week:
  • Usual BT & patches work…
  • More assets/poselib related work.

Week 164 - 10/29 to 11/04

Kept working on 'multi-previews'/poselib project, BConf/Amsterdam week too…

• General Development:
  • Added 'copy/paste RNA array feature to UI copy/paste code (allows e.g. copying whole location etc, using ctrl-alt-c/v) (rB4e95a906).
  • Worked on multi-preview for IDs & poselib previews.
  • Worked on Powerlib (for Francesco's request).
  • Implemented “Set Normals From Faces” custom normals edit tool (feature request during bconf) (rBdd6fa94d).
  • Added support for libhidapi (OpenHMD dependency) in install_deps.sh (in HMD_viewport branch).

• Bug Tracker:
  • BT misc (general check, assign & close work).
  • Fixed #49865 export .obj broke UVs (rBAafde50f).
  • Fixed #49873 Traceback error on exporting to .fbx (rBA2170037).
  • Fixed #49856 Blender 2.78 crashes after loading data from a blendfile (rB1ee43c5a].
  • Fixed #49903 Blender crashes -> Append Group incl. Object using boolean modifier (rB4a68ff15).
  • Fixed #49918 Make duplicates real crash on clicking operator toggles (rB4e5d251c).
  • Fixed #49905 Segfault when copying object data of linked object (rBf0ac661a).

Fixed: 6; Closed: 21;

• Next week:
  • Usual BT & patches work…
  • More assets/poselib related work.

Week 163 - 10/22 to 10/28

Kept working 'multi-previews' project, BConf week too…

• General Development:
  • Worked on 'multi-previews' for datablocks (https://developer.blender.org/diffusion/B/browse/multi_previews_id/, #49820).
  • Added enabled add-ons listing to sysinfo (rB5d2620e9, rB35fde5ff)
  • Release duty.
  • Submitted new Coverity build.
  • Updated Py API doc (master and 2.78a release).
  • Updated bugfix release for 2.78a.
  • Usual i18n weekly update.

• Bug Tracker:
  • BT misc (general check, assign & close work).
  • Fixed #49815 Blender always reverts to RGBA when using Save As Image (rBa39ab9cf).
  • Fixed #49829 Removal of custom icon previews during add-on unregister crashes Blender (rB5f0933f0).
  • Fixed #49743 Adding torus in edit mode local mode shows error (rB216a3a38).
  • Reviewed/Fixed #49822, based on its info enabled our FBX add-on to import new FBX2016 (7500) files (rBA22b54f6, rBAa49ccb0).
  • Reviewed/Committed D2297 API: Fix Links (rBcf9a6b41).
  • Reviewed/committed D2292 Introduce Intersphinx for linking to the manual (rB672e906d).
  • Reviewed/committed D2300 Split the generated index (rB1d13950a).

Fixed: 3; Reviewed: 4; Closed: 11;

• Next week:
  • Usual BT & patches work…
  • More assets-related work.

Week 162 - 10/15 to 10/21

Some pretty tough regressions again in tracker, and preparing release of 2.78a. Manage to finish initial stage of 'multi-previews' project though.

• General Development:
  • Worked on 'multi-previews' for datablocks.

• Bug Tracker:
  • BT misc (general check, assign & close work).
  • Fixed #49722 Appending Bug (Groups) (rB5e92a0fa).
  • Fixed #49775 Appending armatures with Action constraints from .blend file (rB417847c1).
  • Fixed #49804 Display Scale is disabled (rBb5187443).

Fixed: 3; Closed: 18;

• Next week:
  • Usual BT & patches work…
  • More assets/poselib related work.

Week 161 - 10/08 to 10/14

Very light week, again mostly tracker & co. :/

• General Development:
  • Usual i18n weekly update.
  • Worked on 'multi-previews' for datablocks.
  • Release duty...

• Bug Tracker:
  • BT misc (general check, assign & close work).
  • Fixed #49608 ID remap: crash with boid particles, colliders and baked physics cache (rB00dc0666, rBc2758706).
  • Fixed #49635 column_flow Layout - last column is too small (rB918e6cf4).
  • Fixed #49601 Material menu length problem (rB49c2dbc5).
  • Fixed #49657 Audio backend "Jack" should be named "JACK" (rB3055ae50).
  • Reviewed and committed D2290 Fix OLD pre-git links in the API (rB02a1f154).
  • Reviewed/Committed #49609 Point density textures: vertex colors are not properly averaged (rB1fad269d).

Fixed: 4; Reviewed: 2; Closed: 8;

• Next week:
  • Usual BT & patches work…
  • More assets-related work.

Week 160 - 10/01 to 10/07

Much tracker duty, fixing regressions from 2.78, some progress on 'multi-previews' project.

• General Development:
  • Usual i18n update.
  • Updated 2.78 release bugfixes list.
  • Updated 2.78 and master Py API doc.
  • Worked on 'multi-previews' for datablocks.

• Bug Tracker:
  • BT misc (general check, assign & close work).
  • Fixed #49548 Entering Cycles Rendered Viewport Unlinks Material from Objects (rBb9e82b5b).
  • Fixed #49553 Blender 2.78 crashes when File->Data Previews ->Refresh Datablock Previews (rBe5c32844).
  • Fixed #48587 Wrong link to the addon on wiki.
  • Fixed #49595 bpy - negative skin_vertices radius crashes Blender (rBe7981a3e).
  • Fixed (unreported) missing new eyedropper keymap entry in keyconfig_utils.py (#rBc5e10394b45a3).

Fixed: 4; Unreported fix: 1; Closed: 27;

• Next week:
  • Usual BT & patches work…
  • More assets-related work.

Week 159 - 09/24 to 09/30

And again, lots of tracker duty, fixing regressions from 2.78, doing release tasks…

• General Development:
  • Usual i18n update.
  • Release stuff...

• Bug Tracker:
  • BT misc (general check, assign & close work).
  • Fixed #49464 Data Transfer modifier slows down redraw of window (rBe6dda514).
  • Fixed #49461 Dynamic paint wetmap flickers (rB54ed22c8).
  • Fixed #49423 Data Preview of group containing only group instances is empty (based on D2257 from @lichtwerk, rBb63e9a96).
  • Fixed #49466 Bug in sca.c since https://developer.blender.org/rB776a8548f03a049 (rBdd0de53d).
  • Fixed #49460 Particle group instance 'Use Count' value gets reset on file-load (rBcbd3827d).
  • Fixed #49471 Vertex Connect (rBc5d76029).
  • Fixed #49478 triangulate of face hangs Blender (rB344a669c).
  • Fixed #48489 Pose marker in camera action + marker bound to camera → crash (rB85d543b4).
  • Fixed crash in own recent rB776a8548f03a049 (rB7c532601).
  • Fixed Scene datablocks being created with a real user while never having any real datablock user (rBb23ffded).
  • Reviewed D2261 Dynamic Paint: Fix adjacency computations at UV seams.

Fixed: 8; Unreported fix: 2; Reviewed: 1; Closed: 19;

• Next week:
  • Usual BT & patches work…
  • More assets-related work.

Week 158 - 09/17 to 09/23

Ended up being rather small week, spent mostly on tracker…

• Asset Engine:
  • Started working on 'multi-previews' for datablocks.

• General Development:
  • Usual i18n update.

• Bug Tracker:
  • BT misc (general check, assign & close work).
  • Fixed #49375 align rotation with snap target isn't toggleable in edit mode (rB1f5cd859).
  • Fixed #49425 Freestyle in viewport (rBab09a80d).
  • Fixed #49427 Drivers of Shapekeys break when Append a group (rB4e031073).
  • "Fixed" #49412 FBX importer not importing mudbox FBX's (rBA80cfaec).
  • Fixed #49430 append scene with gamelogic broken (rB776a8548).
  • Reviewed/committed D2228: Fix #49343: Python render setting commands are incorrect in the Info view (rBf64aa4e0).
  • Reviewed/committed D2235: Small speedup for blend_render_info.py (rB87c08fa6).

Fixed: 5; Reviewed: 2; Closed: 4;

• Next week:
  • Usual BT & patches work…
  • More assets-related work.

Week 157 - 09/10 to 09/16

Amsterdam week, though lots of time was spent on 2.78 release and bug tracking, had nice talks with guys at the studio about “general” pipeline topics, and more specific asset management plans, see also the blog post.

• Asset Engine:
  • Worked on Claude asset engine (can now actually link/append textures images from Cloud, and show textures previews from Cloud).

• General Development:
  • Usual i18n update.
  • Updated Py API doc for RC2 and master.
  • Updated 2.78 bugfixes list for RC2.
  • Worked on option to mesh validate to fix polygons using several times the same vertices (typical case: importing polygons with holes).

• Bug Tracker:
  • BT misc (general check, assign & close work).
  • Fixed #49303 Numpad decimal with non-US english keyboard layout (rB037df2aa).
  • Fixed #49342 TypeError when autocompleting bpy.app.something (rBce952fd3).
  • Fixed #49352 Blender's file browser do not display previews (rB51e8c167).
  • Fixed #49357 OBJ importer cannot deal with texture names with spaces (rBA959f9d2).
  • Fixed #49349 Baking action doesnt bake multiple objects (rBb06584db).
  • Fixed (Sybren-reported) bpy.data.user_map() ignoring unused datablocks (rBf38f7874).
  • Fixed (Sybren-reported) two issues related to 'partial' .blend files (rB443b3ca9, rB66d4006f).
  • Fixed (Sybren-reported) missing PaintCurves in RNA's Main representation (rB3525fd60).
  • Fixed (Sybren-reported) Object->proxy_from wrongly considered during bpy.data.user_map() generation (rBe0075524).
  • Fixed (Sybren-reported) crash in some cases when deleting particle systems (rBa8ed9144).
  • Reviewed soc PBVH branch (D2150).
  • Reviewed D2238 Added buttons to move a pose in a pose library up/down.

Fixed: 5; Unreported fix: 5; Reviewed: 2; Closed: 19;

• Next week:
  • Usual BT & patches work…
  • More assets-related work.

Week 156 - 09/03 to 09/09

Spent a lot of time working on new Claude experimental asset engine - and taming the asyncio beast, gah!

• Asset Engine:
  • Finally solved how to use asyncio loop from another event loop (Blender main one, here!), and updated AmberAIO and Claude accordingly (see also #49275).
  • Worked on Claude asset engine.

• General Development:
  • Usual i18n update.
  • Finalized bugfixes list for 2.78 RC1.
  • Created script to update py API doc on server (rBe35a87c5).
  • Updated py API doc (for both master and 2.78 RC).

• Bug Tracker:
  • BT misc (general check, assign & close work).
  • Fixed #49228 Separate by material, materials dissappear after reload (rB6c0307f8).
  • Fixed #49270 UV Export layout problem (rBA511f8c4).
  • Fixed #49273 Crash during access to dupli weights (rBbcc86399).
  • Fixed #49283 Crash in BKE_ptcache_make_particle_key (rB45f833c2).
  • Fixed #49299 Removing offset object in modifiers doesn't update mesh (rBb27ba26b).
  • Fixed missing 'prop_required' flags in some ID RNA funcs (rBff1ba086).
  • Reviewed/committed #35333 Few doc strings for WM API functions for consideration (rB33fcd044).
  • Reviewed/committed D2196 Netrender: Fix for T46042 - Slave continues to render frames after cancellation by job manager (rBA2d81cef).
  • Reviewed/committed D2198 Network renderer: simple fix for T43966 - In large projects the default set socket.timeout is to low (rBA0b42fdf).

Fixed: 5; Unreported fix: 1; Reviewed: 3; Closed: 13;

• Next week:
  • Amsterdam & Blender 2.8 week!
  • Usual BT & patches work…
  • More assets-related work.

Week 155 - 08/27 to 09/02

Spent again most time on coming release tasks. Also started learning asyncio and implementing experimental 'Cloud' asset engine.

• Asset Engine:
  • Added experimental version of Amber engine using asyncio.
  • Started experimental works towards a 'Blender Cloud' asset engine.

• General Development:
  • Usual i18n update.
  • Submitted new (2.78 RC1) build to coverity.
  • Had little chat with Sybren about his work related to 'data splitting' in .blend libs containing a single datablock each.
  • Spent most of the day tracking weird issue with OSL built on latest Debian testing (i.e. with gcc6), with not much success. We have an issue like stdlib or ABI mismatch, not sure (asan reporting delete being called with different type/size than matching new call...).

• Bug Tracker:
  • BT misc (general check, assign & close work).
  • Fixed #49158 Untranslatable elements in UI (rBde64f66a).
  • Fixed #49197 fbx exporter, Blender 2.77a reports a same node (357572814) several times (rBA3dc2ed1).
  • Fixed #49210 Issue with User Count on Images in some shader nodetrees when rendering previews (rBbfd8da75).
  • Fixed #49224 Crash when deleting the text (rB159ac3f6).
  • Fixed #49222 Image Save settings are overridden by the File Save Screen ones (rB8b2a4505).
  • Fixed #49229 ID user decrement error when deleting group instance twice (rB27c64e3f).
  • Fixed #48911 When two keymaps are configured on the system and the current isn't the first one Blender use both (rB16cb9391).
  • Fixed #48847 I can't use the Keyboard Shortcuts "]" (select: "After Current Frames") in Dope Sheet Editor or Graph Editor (rB16cb9391).
  • Fixed (unreported) bad usercount handling of materials in BKE_mesh_new_from_object() (rBa0cdebde).

Fixed: 8; Unreported fix: 1; Closed: 7;

• Next week:
  • Usual BT & patches work…
  • More assets-related work.

Week 154 - 08/20 to 08/26

Not a big week, spent again most time on coming release tasks (esp. getting 'py API doc update' running, etc.).

• General Development:
  • Got rsync access to blender py API, and managed to update py doc.
  • Finished updating bugfixes list for 2.78 release.
  • Usual i18n update.

• Bug Tracker:
  • BT misc (general check, assign & close work).
  • Fixed #49119 Batch-Generate Previews operator fails (rB67dcad40).
  • Fixed #49060 crashes during render with no apparent reason (rB43bb8f12).
  • Fixed #49150 New category column in operator search-popup is untranslatable (rBfe8b1972).
  • Fixed #49139 Memory leak in UV image editor related to Undo (and possibly Waveform and Vectorscope) (rBa80977cd).
  • Fixed #49158 Untranslatable elements in UI (rB1a1bcad4).
  • Fixed #49151 Can't unlink particle systems (nor set to 0 users) (rBfef0cd81).

Fixed: 6; Closed: 12;

• Next week:
  • Usual BT & patches work…
  • More assets-related work.

Week 153 - 08/13 to 08/19

Spent again a lot of time on coming release tasks.

• Assets:
  • Finished initial implementation of asset previews for AssetEngine (still untested).
  • Added (dummy random mosaic) preview generation to Amber asset engine, allows to test things, everything seems to be OK.

• General Development:
  • Manage to update coverity build/scan, and fixed several issues found in latest one.
  • Managed to build USD project locally (with some edit to vanilla sources).
  • Kept updating 2.78 release bugfixes list.
  • Usual i18n update.
  • Fixed/cleaned up several issues in UI messages of recently merged projects.

• Bug Tracker:
  • BT misc (general check, assign & close work).
  • Fixed #49105 Array modifier displayed in Edit mode crashes with End Cap enabled.

Fixed: 1; Closed: 5;

• Next week:
  • Usual BT & patches work…
  • More assets-related work.

Week 152 - 08/06 to 08/12

Spent again a lot of time on tracker, reviews/gsoc, coming release tasks, etc. Did find some time to resume work on assets though (at last :| ).

• Assets:
  • Worked on adding support for asset previews in AssetEngine and filebrowser.

• General Development:
  • Started working on 2.78 release bugfix list.

• Bug Tracker:
  • BT misc (general check, assign & close work).
  • Reviewed D2139 Fix ID types DAG update tagging.
  • Reviewed D2150 Added PBVH based vertex and weight painting to Blender (aka PBVH Painting GSoC).

Fixed: 0; Reviewed: 2; Closed: 14;

• Next week:
  • Usual BT & patches work…
  • More assets-related work.

Week 151 - 07/30 to 08/05

Week mostly spent on tracker...

• General Development:
  • Usual i18n weekly update.

• Bug Tracker:
  • BT misc (general check, assign & close work).
  • Fixed #48977 FBX exporting and importing again in default settings breaks armatures with animations and meshes totally for me (rBA96a957f).
  • Fixed #48980 crash when loading a file that contains a custom node tree ({{GitCommit|rB36a790653c01}).
  • Fixed #48998 "Rotate" disrespects rotation-direction and path (rBfb94f4b8).
  • Fixed #48986 Incorrect normals or tangents when using custom split normals (rB2f5db2e4).
  • Fixed #49014 Copy Paste is inconsistant with datablocks (rBa0e72a09).
  • Fixed #49022 Crash in BKE_libblock_remap_locked (rB50c017b6).
  • Fixed #49023 Segfault when switching brushes while renaming another brush (rBdf7be614).
  • Reviewed D2060 Initial implementation of Alembic for basic import/export and data streaming.
  • Investigated #49004 Dynamic Paint doesn't update mesh before 'start frame'.

Fixed: 6; Investigated: 1; Reviewed: 1; Closed: 3;

• Next week:
  • Usual BT & patches work…
  • More assets-related work.

Week 150 - 07/23 to 07/29

Really light week, for various reasons… Mostly spent on tracker duty.

• General Development:
  • Added missing copy/make_local functions for several datablock types, most notably hairy MovieClip (and its tracking nested structures) (D2126, rB3d7cf808).

• Bug Tracker:
  • BT misc (general check, assign & close work).
  • Fixed #48813 Custom icon is not drawn on header / addons prefs panel (rBf3f10e45).
  • Fixed #48961 Material slots become easily desynced over linked duplicates (rBd66a27de).
  • Fixed #48965 Cannot Append Palette As Local Datablock (rB035b4033).
  • Fixed #48971 Append creates linked image textures if object has shape keys (rBcdc7a24d).
  • Fixed (IRC-reported by Sergey) bug when deleting some proxy objects having constraints or drivers referring to themselves (rBb91aea60).
  • Fixed (IRC reported) missing expand calls on some object/particles physics pointers (rB8e004062).

Fixed: 4; Unreported fixes: 2; Closed: 12;

• Next week:
  • Usual BT & patches work…
  • More assets-related work.

Week 149 - 07/16 to 07/22

Week was mostly spent again on after-merging of ID remap work into master (both fixing reported issues, and updating more existing code and asset-engine branches).

• General Development:
  • Usual i18n weekly update.
  • Added 'reload()' function to RNA library, nice helper for scripters (rB5f4a3785.
  • Reworked island computation of UVs in BKE, now have both from edge seams and actual uvco of a given uvmap (rBdb0c2be5).

• Bug Tracker:
  • BT misc (general check, assign & close work).
  • Fixed #48898 shaders are remove from metaballs on cycles render (rB1270ab91).
  • Fixed #48906 Import Images As Planes - does not work, when scene gets complex (rBA231c565).
  • Fixed #48907 Appending breaks parent relations and groups, due to recent refactors (rBd8d4bef6 and following ones).
  • Fixed (IRC reported by Sergey) assert regarding icon_id of newly copied datablocks (rBb9e4e69a).
  • Fixed (unreported) ED_region_tag_redraw_partial() could override a previously defined partial redraw, instead of extending it (rB65e7caf9).
  • Fixed (unreported) crash in some case when remapping armature data (rBaf2deb54).
  • Fixed (unreported) memleak in image copy function (rBd4342b38).

Fixed: 4; Unreported fixes: 3; Closed: 11;

• Next week:
  • Usual BT & patches work…
  • More assets-related work.

Week 148 - 07/09 to 07/15

Week was mostly spent again on after-merging of ID remap work into master (both fixing reported issues, and updating more existing code and asset-engine branches).

• General Development:
  • Finished updating make_local code to use new libquery/libremap features in ID management code.

• Bug Tracker:
  • BT misc (general check, assign & close work).
  • Fixed #48822 Crash when I try to use "Join" (Ctrl Key + J) with two meshes (rB47c47c7e).
  • Fixed #48831 Icon Preview generation for textures and images (rB51812fb5, rBeb04908c).
  • Fixed #48844 Appended Cycles materials are not editable in Properties panel/Node Editor (rB39dee8a2 and previous).
  • Fixed (unreported) memory leak when making local linked databock which has a preview image (rB62ea3836).

Fixed: 3; Unreported fixes: 1; Closed: 20;

• Next week:
  • Usual BT & patches work…
  • More assets-related work.

Week 147 - 07/02 to 07/08

Week was mostly spent again on after-merging of ID remap work into master (both fixing reported issues, and updating more existing code and asset-engine branches).

• General Development:
  • Committed clean up of 'is lib' check of IDs (rBd2312602).
  • Started using new libquery/libremap features in ID management code (mostly 'make_local' feature), makes code simpler and fixes several issues.
  • Fixed several issues in libquery/libremap code itself (missing ID pointers, refactoring/adding more special pre/post remapping handling...).

• Bug Tracker:
  • BT misc (general check, assign & close work).
  • Fixed #48802 Unwrap buttons, can't add hotkey in rmb menu (rBb9dbcf40).
  • Fixed (unreported) crash when remapping armatures (rB514700b3).
  • Fixed (again!) issue with particle distribution code (rB99683f25).

Fixed: 2; Unreported fixes: 1; Closed: 1;

• Next week:
  • Usual BT & patches work…
  • More assets-related work.

Week 146 - 06/25 to 07/01

Week was mostly spent on after-merging of ID remap work into master (both fixing reported issues, and updating more existing code and asset-engine branches).

• Assets:
  • Worked on fixing/cleaning up various things in asset-engine branch.

• General Development:
  • Usual i18n weekly update.
  • Clean up and rework a bit RNA API to remove datablocks (rBd4e43583).

• Bug Tracker:
  • BT misc (general check, assign & close work).
  • Fixed #48741 File browser back button doesn't work from inside Blend file (rB5f77266b).
  • Fixed #48740 material remapping work properly only the first time (rBe2c7ee77).
  • Investigated/fixed some nasty remap-related issue with linked libraries, reported by Campbell on IRC (rB85c9aefe).
  • Fixed (unreported) potential buffer overflow with BLO_library_path_explode() usage (rBab921321).

Fixed: 2; Unreported fixes: 2; Closed: 9;

• Next week:
  • Usual BT & patches work…
  • More assets-related work.

Week 145 - 06/18 to 06/24

Week was mostly spent on tracker and merging ID remap work into master.

• Assets:
  • Finished review, and committed id-remap work in master (rB897e97f0, rBfb1f7fad and rB7547c6a2).

• General Development:
  • Usual i18n weekly update.

• Bug Tracker:
  • BT misc (general check, assign & close work).
  • Fixed #48412 Blender 2.77a crashes on Undo in some specific multi-level linked libraries cases (rBe34ade4e).
  • Fixed #48710 The Random Velocity tooltip is wrong (rB097611a9).
  • Fixed #48689 Bledner proportional tool go to inf by it self (rB37560e77).
  • Fixed #48725 Just a typo (rBc376ff26).
  • Fixed #48713 Problem when importing FBX file with 2 armatures (rBA2b6a756).

Fixed: 5; Closed: 11;

• Next week:
  • Usual BT & patches work…
  • More assets-related work.

Week 144 - 06/11 to 06/17

Rather small week, yet did some nice step forwards with asset-related work.

• Assets:
  • Worked on supporting non-blender data as assets (images/sounds/fonts/…), have working proof of concept over images ones it seems (asset-engine & asset-experiment branches).
  • Worked on updating id-remap branch after first review.
  • Worked on fixing/cleaning up again readfile.c and libquery's ID looper in master branch.

• General Development:
  • Usual i18n weekly update.

• Bug Tracker:
  • BT misc (general check, assign & close work).
  • Fixed #48634 Interpolation and distribution of Children Particles breaks (rB4ec1c76a).
  • Fixed #48617 use backdrop option is missing in some VSE modes (rB4df6474f).
  • Fixed #48604 Crash when using Ctrl-Z on the Render layer (rB05500111).
  • Fixed (IRC-reported) annoying assert with new simple/random particle distribution code (rB046adde6).
  • Reviewed/committed fixed Thai fonts from Hồ Châu (rB07925b63).

Fixed: 3; Unreported fix: 1; Reviewed: 1; Closed: 4;

• Next week:
  • Usual BT & patches work…
  • More assets-related work (get id-remap into master!).

Week 143 - 06/04 to 06/10

Worked mostly on some (limited) edit-mode/BMesh support for custom normals.

• General Development:
  • Added some 'maximum angle' limit to EditNormal modifier, to help prevent flipped faces with extreme normal modifications (see #48576, rBac7feaed).
  • Added basic support to set custom normals in BMesh (see custom-normals-bmesh branch in git repo).

• Bug Tracker:
  • BT misc (general check, assign & close work).
  • Fixed #48631 FBX setting "bake_anim_use_nla_strips": True, fails to export unique animations to each take (rBAc4a7943).
  • Fixed #48614 Blender from buildbot crash when Separate selection in this particular scene (rBd7338267).
  • Fixed #48600 VSE strip selection fails (rB38f07a81).
  • Fixed (unreported) EditNormal modifier: broken 'flip poly' feature (rBf08018f9).

Fixed: 3; Unreported fix: 1; Closed: 4;

• Next week:
  • Usual BT & patches work…
  • More assets-related work (get id-remap reviewed!).

Week 142 - 05/27 to 06/03

Rather small week, was side-tracked by lots of things…

• General Development:
  • Usual i18n weekly update.
  • OMP->BLI_task: shrinkwrap (rB7e120f3a).
  • Worked some more on 'small hash' topic (see D2042).

• Bug Tracker:
  • BT misc (general check, assign & close work).
  • Fixed #48529 NLA : viewport not updated after Track muted/unmuted (rB362bd116).
  • Fixed #48415 EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION crash on opening file (rBb1704d18).
  • Fixed #48466 Missing Render Passes in Multilayer EXR (rB6befc762).
  • Fixed #47637 Object disappear (eventually crash) while changing multires subdivision level (rB68d1348c).

Fixed: 4; Closed: 18;

• Next week:
  • Usual BT & patches work…
  • More assets-related work (get id-remap reviewed!).

Week 141 - 05/21 to 05/27

Spent time again over getting-rid-of-OMP tasks, and various other low hanging fruits.

• General Development:
  • Finished work on OMP->BLI_task in dynapaint code (rBc1b7acda).
  • OMP->BLI_task: sequencer's histogram preview (rB93b3f1c8).
  • OMP->BLI_task: scopes_update of image editor (50%s faster!, rBf87842a7).
  • Investigated speedup of very small ghashes by using internal basic array instead (related to new despgraph speed issues when switching to BLI_ghash).

• SoC:
  • Some mentoring tasks.

• Bug Tracker:
  • BT misc (general check, assign & close work).
  • Fixed #48497 Dynamic Paint Crash/hang in old scene with latest buildbot (6115267) (rB22ff9c55).
  • Fixed #48487 Physics cache names allow (back)slashes, which breaks its handling (rBaf4a04ea).
  • Fixed (unreported) missing progress bar in early baking stage of dynamicpaint (rB951db208).
  • Reviewed/applied/extended #48499 delete of NULL pointer is noop, so no need to check (rBa7c3ec4f).

Fixed: 2; Unreported Fixes: 1; Reviewed: 1; Closed: 13;

• Next week:
  • Usual BT & patches work…

Week 140 - 05/14 to 05/20

Spend pretty much whole week in converting dynamicpaint from OpenMP to BLI_task (also included some cleanup and a few nice optimizations).

• General Development:
  • Usual i18n weekly update.
  • BLI_task: made foreach looper lockfree (take II) (rB575d7a96).
  • BLI_task: Added new 'BLI_task_parallel_range_finalize()' allowing for lockfree aggregation(-like) parallelized tasks (D1997, rB688858d3).
  • Cleanup and optimization of pre-bake step of DynaPaint image baking (rBa0553954).
  • Worked on OMP->BLI_task in dynapaint code (got nice >20% speedup when using Drip effect, rBa4a968fd).

• Bug Tracker:
  • BT misc (general check, assign & close work).
  • Fixed #48426 Knife tool header message is cut because it has not enough length (rBb1e2f8be).
  • Fixed #48425 Armature Symmetrize is flipping Custom Shape parameter (rB20714889).
  • Fixed #48422 Blender freezes in multi-threaded tasks since recent rB98123ae91680, on windows - atomic ops issue? (rBbb7da630).
  • Fixed #48204 Generic Tablet on Linux - Erratic strokes with pressure sensitivity enabled (rB38f65c50).

Fixed: 4; Closed: 12;

• Next week:
  • Usual BT & patches work…
  • More assets-related work (will cleanup and prepare id-remap for review and hopefully merge in 2.8 branch).
  • Keep working on OMP->BLI_task too.

Week 139 - 05/07 to 05/13

Took a pause from asset work this week, trying to get some optimizations in parallel code area, with not much luck actually…

• General Development:
  • Refactored atomic lib (rBba3ae9ea).
  • BLI_task: add support for listbase parallelized for loops. (rB868cfc5a).
  • Armature meshdeform evaluation: parallelize computation of bbones deform matrices (rB029ccca0).
  • Dynapaint: cleanup of BKE code (rBd4b8aa47).

• Bug Tracker:
  • BT misc (general check, assign & close work).
  • Fixed #48362 Spin Tool: broken behavior in recent builds, cannot make a proper spin extrusion when the Z-axis is involved (rB65dd1d7d).
  • Fixed #48369 Error PADPLUSKEY [ latin1 ](rBce65fae8)
  • Fixed #48416 Impossible to copy a linked object from a file to another one mantaining the linked library (rB5e0ec495, rBa91a49ba).

Fixed: 3; Closed: 4;

• Next week:
  • Usual BT & patches work…
  • More assets-related work.
  • Keep working on OMP->BLI_task too.

Week 138 - 04/30 to 05/06

Finalized first (apparently) working asset reloading code, and did some tracker duties as usual.

• Assets:
  • Reworked a bit Amber (since now all engines are expected to be able to identify an asset based on its uuid only, without any repo info).
  • Got first working version of 'update on .blend reload' topic in asset-experiment branch.

• Bug Tracker:
  • BT misc (general check, assign & close work).
  • Fixed #48118 Vertex Groups not masking particle hair emission correctly (rBabf6f9f6).
  • Fixed #48325 Data transfer modifier vertex group selector doesn't work with freestyle data (rB4e4ff72d).
  • Fixed #48322 Proxy Armature Animations are not exported to FBX (rBA184e74f).
  • Fixed #48328 Blender crashes selecting linked duplicate bone in Edit Mode (rB9151095d).
  • Fixed #48262 Crash when trying to render a scene without camera (rB8c2cec93).
  • Fixed #47657 Using template_list() with invoke_props_dialog() (rBbd335f13).
  • Investigated #48204 Generic Tablet on Linux - Erratic strokes with pressure sensitivity enabled (with proposed patch).

Fixed: 6; Investigated: 1; Closed: 10;

• Next week:
  • Usual BT & patches work…
  • More assets-related work.

Week 137 - 04/23 to 04/29

Spent again most of time on assets.

• Assets:
  • Worked on 'update on .blend reload' topic (UI side) in asset-engine branch.
  • Worked on 'update on .blend reload' topic (actual reload) in asset-experiment branch.

• General Development:
  • Usual i18n weekly update.

• GSoC:
  • Contacts with student.

• Bug Tracker:
  • BT misc (general check, assign & close work).
  • Fixed (irc reported) Font filebrowser not showing thumbnails when those are enabled by default in userpref (rB1da0d004).
  • Fixed (irc reported) crash (segfault) in node editor (rB57eb8539).
  • Fixed (unreported) possible freed memory usage when reloading a .blend file (rB86b8c8a0).
  • Fixed (unreported) bad 'NULL freeing' with placeholder images (rB461604c0).
  • Reviewed and committed D1934 FBX: Enable material transparency while importing (rBAdbb54ee).
  • Reviewed and committed D1933 install_deps.sh Spring Cleaning and OpenVDB (rB3ccc61c0, rBde0b4806, rB2ba7b3ea).

Fixed: 0; Unreported Fix: 4; Reviewed: 2; Closed: 15;

• Next week:
  • Usual BT & patches work…
  • More assets-related work.

Week 136 - 04/16 to 04/22

Spent again most of time on assets.

• Assets:
  • Worked on 'update on .blend reload' topic in asset-engine branch.

• Bug Tracker:
  • BT misc (general check, assign & close work).
  • Fixed #48212 Example of Collection property definition suggests by the print statement that three values are added while in fact only two are (rB0b349871).
  • Fixed #48230 Home key when only one keyframe makes the DopeSheet acting weird rBa2779a46).
  • Fixed #48223 3D View not refresh after changing Blending mode in NLA (rBc41b2bd7).
  • Fixed (unreported) crash when listing available fmodifier types (rBf69b364b).
  • Reviewed and accepted D1901 Update install_deps.sh for ArchLinux (rB7205bac9).

Fixed: 3; Unreported Fix: 1; Reviewed: 1; Closed: 17;

• Next week:
  • Usual BT & patches work…
  • More assets-related work.

Week 135 - 04/09 to 04/15

Spent again most of time on assets.

• Assets:
  • Worked on 'update on .blend reload' topic in asset-engine branch.
  • Added possibility for async callbacks of asset engines to behave as immediate ones (so that engines that do not need complex/long operations to complete them do not have to add the whole 'job' system overhead).

• General Development:
  • Usual i18n weekly update.
  • UI: copy to selected: add 'single'/'all' options to buttons' menu when relevant rB177d0511).

• Bug Tracker:
  • BT misc (general check, assign & close work).
  • Fixed #47983 Particles - Emit from Verts emits double on one vert (again, rB950acb0c).
  • Fixed #48151 Texture won't refresh automatically in UV editor. Minor annoyance (rB10320891).
  • Fixed #48157 3D view's depth of field isn't displayed correctly with scene units scale (rB6bc2ba21).

Fixed: 3; Closed: 13;

• Next week:
  • Usual BT & patches work…
  • More assets-related work.

Week 134 - 04/02 to 04/08

Spent more time on asset project this week, the 'reload assets on .blend file load' handling is rather well defined now.

• Assets:
  • Worked on 'update on .blend reload' topic in asset-engine branch.
  • Added 'report' support to asset engines (though not yet in use).
  • Several other minor tweaks and fixes to asset engine code.

• GSoC 2016:
  • Reviewed projects.

• Bug Tracker:
  • BT misc (general check, assign & close work).
  • Fixed #48045 Freestyle ID user decrement error (rBd82d9e14).
  • Fixed #48054 Blender 2.77 doesn't import blenders fbx - RNA API breakage (rB46aaa539).
  • Fixed #48089 FK animation won't export to FBX (rBAc964103).
  • Fixed #48088 Reproducible crash: Edges + Array Mod + Hair Particles (rBc1d1c1dc).

Fixed: 4; Closed: 21;

• Next week:
  • Usual BT & patches work…
  • More assets-related work.

Week 133 - 03/26 to 04/01

Again spent most time on tracker & gsoc.

• Assets:
  • Added callback for asset engines to validate/change current dir (rB96aa4455).

• General Development:
  • Usual i18n weekly update.

• Bug Tracker:
  • BT misc (general check, assign & close work).
  • Fixed #47951 UserId problem (rB112f431c).
  • Fixed #47935 Hair particles; The display percentage parameter breaks after a render is done (rB8fcf7741).
  • Fixed #47962 It's possible to set a Sound strip as a modifier Mask (rBce71e2e7).
  • Fixed #47959 UV Editor, Pivot "Individual Origins" doesn't work as expected (rB211b5396).
  • Fixed #47972 Blender crash (rBd336bb07).
  • Fixed #47958 Crash in Walk Navigation in Camera mode (walk_invoke) on files that are just saved/just opened (rBb1f918bc).
  • Fixed #47983 Particles - Emit from Verts emits double on one vert (rBcb199480).
  • Fixed #48001 Highlighting selected item in filtered lists (rB8e6d6cc4).
  • Partly fixed (unreported) particles not updating correctly when changing settings (rB26132eaf).

Fixed: 8; Unreported fix: 1; Closed: 33;

• Next week:
  • Usual BT & patches work…
  • More assets-related work.

Week 132 - 03/19 to 03/25

Worked a bit on asset-related topics, and spent some time on tracker & gsoc.

• Assets:
  • Worked on the sub-ID/Asset dependencies topic in asset-engine branch.

• General Development:
  • Updated bugfix list for 2.77 RC2 and Release (https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.77/Bug_Fixes).
  • Reworked library_query foreach looper - adding optional recursivity (D1869, rBc08924bf).
  • Made IDPreview handling code use new recursive libquery looper (rB9dc5e1db).

• Bug Tracker:
  • BT misc (general check, assign & close work).
  • Fixed #47837 Filtering UIList (rB7f03e7cc).
  • Fixed #47831 Obj_Import_Problem (rBAcb2f133).
  • Fixed #47928 Crashing save corruption with dynamic paint drip effector groups (rB712a2579).
  • Fixed #47902 Particle grid not using modifier stack (rB2bd3acf7).
  • Fixed #47939 Install Deps OSL 1.7.1 and clang-3.5 rBeac770a3, rB9317f9c0).

Fixed: 5; Closed: 18;

• Next week:
  • Usual BT & patches work…
  • More assets-related work.

Week 131 - 03/12 to 03/18

Worked a bit on asset-related topics, spent most time on tracker and a bit gsoc.

• Assets:
  • Worked on the sub-ID/Asset dependencies topic in asset-engine branch.

• General Development:
  • Usual i18n weekly update.

• Bug Tracker:
  • BT misc (general check, assign & close work).
  • Fixed #47763 2.77 RC2 (Fluid) Particle Baking slower compared to 2.67b (rBe327fb52).
  • Fixed #47773 Particle System Crash (rB34fe03c7).
  • Fixed #47787 When performing operation 'Make single user' -> 'obj&data', object is removed from group (rB6b1d77a8, rB00166ff6).
  • Fixed #47750 Hair particles lose position data when "Disconnect All" is used the first time from program load (rBa078fe35).
  • Fixed (ML reported) missing anim_data in RNA API of Freestyle's Linestyle (rB6952d75e).
  • Fixed (unreported) Particle disconnect operator: 'all hair' disabled would not work correctly after first op execution (rB681becb3).

Fixed: 5; Unreported fix: 1; Closed: 14;

• Next week:
  • Usual BT & patches work…
  • More assets-related work.

Week 130 - 03/05 to 03/11

Pretty much a blank week, for different reasons… Only found a bit of time for tracker.

• General Development:
  • Usual i18n weekly update.

• Bug Tracker:
  • BT misc (general check, assign & close work).
  • Fixed (unreported) crash when adding EditNormals modifier to non-mesh object (rB13943693).

Fixed: 0; Unreported fix: 1; Closed: 5;

• Next week:
  • Usual BT & patches work…
  • More assets-related work.

Week 129 - 02/27 to 03/04

Worked on asset-related topics, and spent a lot of time on tracker (releases…)

• Assets:
  • Worked on the sub-ID/Asset dependencies topic in asset-engine branch.

• General Development:
  • Usual i18n weekly update.
  • Committed 'Add mesh utilities to flip all/some polygons' (D1814, rB877f4416).
  • Batch-previews generation: add option to control whether we save backup .blend1 file or not (rB449fbde7).

• Bug Tracker:
  • BT misc (general check, assign & close work).
  • Fixed #47593 'Move to layer' will be crash in blender 2.77rc1 (rB3075328c).
  • Fixed #47596 Bone motion path (rBeb9d4882).
  • Fixed #42526 Generated normals can be opposed to face one, needs winding flipping in this case (rBe3841c91).
  • Fixed #47490 STL: faces not normalized correctly when exporting multiple meshes (rBA0f2f0e4).
  • Fixed #47632 Redrawing dialogs (rB607d916f, rBa0db3c39).
  • Fixed #47643 Blender crash. Linked speaker issue (rB42b2c473).
  • Fixed #47564 Unwrapping the same mesh results in different UVs and alter Export (rB0d12e086).
  • Fixed #47661 cm (centimeter) unit breaks m (meter) unit in Metric (rB9c0de008, rBf51ef8ac).
  • Fixed #47644 Array modifier crash (rBb47137ae).
  • Fixed #47676 Blender 2.77 RC - Particle Hair Mode Issue (rB8ead4990, rBd377f144).
  • Fixed #47683 Regression displaying bone-children in dupli-groups (rBd8b8a6e2).
  • Fixed (unreported) memleak in addons' translations handling (rB0187a5f2).

Fixed: 11; Unreported fix: 1; Closed: 26;

• Next week:
  • Usual BT & patches work…
  • More assets-related work.

Week 128 - 02/20 to 02/26

Worked on asset-related topics, release tasks, tracker….

• Assets:
  • Worked on the sub-ID/Asset dependencies topic in asset-engine branch.

• General Development:
  • Usual i18n weekly update.
  • Committed 'pop' feature to BLI's ghash/gset (rBfe9b21a4).
  • Updated bugfix list for 2.77.

• Bug Tracker:
  • BT misc (general check, assign & close work).
  • Fixed #47482 Object linked to scene, is not updated correctly in GroupInstance (objects with face users) (rB4dd406c7).
  • Fixed (second part of) #47482 Object linked to scene, is not updated correctly in GroupInstance (objects with face users) (rB20104bee).
  • Fixed (unreported) crash when ungrouping a nodegroup with some animated node (rB81325535).
  • Fixed (unreported) crash when opening a file from splash screen when 'load UI' option is disabled (rB935e241f).

Fixed: 2; Unreported fix: 2; Closed: 23;

• Next week:
  • Usual BT & patches work…
  • More assets-related work.

Week 127 - 02/13 to 02/19

Worked mainly on asset-related topics (need to build dependencies info between IDs of an asset to handle correctly its reload).

• Assets:
  • Worked on the sub-ID/Asset dependencies topic in asset-engine branch.

• General Development:
  • Usual i18n weekly update.
  • Worked on GSoc proposals a bit.
  • Updated FBX 'test suite' project.
  • Added 'pop' feature to BLI's ghash/gset (D1808).
  • Added support for recursion to our libquery's ID foreach looper (new branch libquery-recursive, working afaict but not enough tested to get reviewed yet).

• Bug Tracker:
  • BT misc (general check, assign & close work).
  • Fixed #47457 FBX EXPORT: no keyframes are appearing in the exported fbx when objects stays put, even though i have manually inserted keyframes (rBA219e882).
  • Reviewed & committed D1807: fix related to #45097 Network Render addon (rBAda3be8b).
  • Investigated #47490 && #42526 add non-bmesh poly-flipping utils to BKE_mesh, to allow easy flipping of normals (D1814).

Fixed: 1; Reviewed: 1; Investigated: 1; Closed: 12;

• Next week:
  • Usual BT & patches work…
  • More release tasks (bugfixes list...).
  • More assets-related work.

Week 126 - 02/06 to 02/12

Very small week (ended up working only three days more or less) - and with that stupid FBX stuff… Next week will be better!

• General Development:
  • Usual i18n weekly update.
  • Worked a bit on FBX…

• Bug Tracker:
  • BT misc (general check, assign & close work).
  • Fixed #47354 accented characteres (rB6e16becf).
  • Fixed #47371 Some OpenSubdiv compute modes not available for translation (rB337b7186).
  • Fixed #47314 Misaligned DataBlock Previews for groups with custom center coordinates (rB7428ccfd).

Fixed: 3; Closed: 12;

• Next week:
  • Usual BT & patches work…
  • Some release tasks probably.
  • More assets-related work.

Week 125 - 01/30 to 02/05

Rather frustrating week, spent a lot of time on some asset design issue (how to handle sub-datablocks of an asset), with not much results so far…

• Assets:
  • Design work on the sub-ID issue (see 'The Sub-Datablocks Issue' section of #46049).

• General Development:
  • Usual i18n weekly update.

• Bug Tracker:
  • BT misc (general check, assign & close work).
  • Fixed #46455 Applying Array Modifier corrupt mesh (rBeed9c6fd).
  • Fixed #47263 problem with turntable orbit (rBfe0ca82b).
  • Fixed #47300 SHIFT TAB, CTRL SHIFT TAB shortcuts does not toggle snap, snap mode on off anymore (rBb80c0732).
  • Fixed #47326 Snap to vertices not work properly in orthogonal view mode (rB3ad03441).

Fixed: 4; Closed: 18;

• Next week:
  • Usual BT & patches work…
  • More assets-related work.

Week 124 - 01/23 to 01/29

Another tracker week, also finalized OMP -> BLI_task transition in sculpt/paint code.

• General Development:
  • Finalized OMP -> BLI_task in sculpt/paint area.
  • Lost time trying to add OpenVDB to install_deps.sh script - that crappy lib does not have any 'auto-config' type of building, not doable for now... :(
  • Usual i18n weekly update.

• Bug Tracker:
  • BT misc (general check, assign & close work).
  • Fixed #46456 quitting while using dynotopo (dynamic topography) if you press ESC (rBc292b4eb).
  • Fixed (irc reported) clear keyframes op not reporting when called over a locked fcurve (rB4e2eea63).
  • Fixed #47252 ImportHelper class gives unicode errors when using a long string for filter_glob (file filters) (rB66aa4af8).
  • Fixed #47228 X11: Hotkeys aren't working when first defined keymap is not latin-one compatible (rB12c71508, D1746)).
  • Fixed #47265 Search-to-add node by name report the list of node untranslated (rB75838de7).

Fixed: 5; Closed: 18;

• Next week:
  • Usual BT & patches work…
  • No more 'kill OMP' task (entering bcon3)! So hopefully some more serious assets-related work this time.

Week 123 - 01/16 to 01/22

Spent lot of time on tracker again, and several other stuff.

• Assets:
  • Worked a bit on Asset engine.

• General Development:
  • Added some initial support of full data export to blend2json.py script.
  • OMP busting: finished removing it from editors/sculptpaint, and other areas (kernel/particle_system, ...).
  • Usual i18n weekly update.

• Bug Tracker:
  • BT misc (general check, assign & close work).
  • Fixed #47188 Blender crashes when trying to undo adding new scene with "copy settings" (rB2c5bc023).
  • Fixed #47189 Large smoke simulation sometimes make Blender crash (rB143d423a).
  • Fixed (unreported) missing scene->gm.dome.warptext in libquery looper (rB72480965).
  • Fixed #47203 Render Crash (rB70c690c6).
  • Fixed #47198 Cycles & BI have broken UVs in some degenerated quads cases (rBbf5ddb97).
  • Fixed #46657 VSE: Strip length jumps to a negative number (rBac7c3e04).
  • Partially fixed #47025 Shadow pass error: Black shadow (rB7f65eb3f) - other issues with shadow pass are related to how they work in BI and not fixable afaics.
  • Reviewed and finalized D1737: Modifications for Alt-F1 to work for the new translations (rBA9a875bf).

Fixed: 7; Reviewed: 1; Closed: 12;

• Next week:
  • Usual BT & patches work…
  • More 'kill OMP' task, and/or...
  • More assets-related work & co.

Week 122 - 01/09 to 01/15

Spent (lost…) most of time on tracker this week, we had a burst of particles-related reports among other things.

• Assets:
  • Made some more fixes, and a new test build of id-remap branch.

• General Development:
  • Triaged and Fixed some minor stuff from coverity reports (rBe9c8e031).
  • Usual i18n weekly update.

• Bug Tracker:
  • BT misc (general check, assign & close work).
  • Fixed #47121 Image node on linked and localized material loses image after reopening project (rB96912025).
  • Fixed #47060 Uv form dupli not working with Cycles when the hair/particles mesh has more than one uv sets (rB43cc8d0b).
  • Fixed #47148 Hair grid dos not work (rBca405a73).
  • Fixed #47147 small particles incorrectly rendered as large particles (particle size influenced by texture) (rB16f8444d).
  • Fixed #47164 [Scene.raycast] - True result when it should be False (rBc6c223ad).
  • Fixed #47173 Transfer Weights options changed; manual does not reflect (rBM1190).
  • Fixed #47185 Wrong items order with template_icon_view (rB9137a440).

Fixed: 7; Closed: 10;

• Next week:
  • Usual BT & patches work…
  • More 'kill OMP' task, and/or...
  • More assets-related work & co.

Week 121 - 01/02 to 01/08

Lots of various stuff done this week, kept working on kicking OMP out of our code, got some patches from id-remap in master…

• Assets:
  • Made a bunch of fixes, cleanup etc. in id-remap branch.

• General Development:
  • OMP -> BLI_task, Sculpt: Whole editors' sculpt.c, which is now free from OMP (rB1991ee17, rB2e77c413, rB0b157f7c).
  • Committed ID: Sanitize handling of 'USER_ONE' (ensure_user) case (from id-remap work, D1696, rB2ac555fe).
  • Finalized and committed 'users of ID' py API (D1678, rB4acf0f05).
  • Added 'active_layer'/'select' options to 3DView paste operator (Koro request, rB4ef918d6).
  • Added to install_deps.sh new '--no-confirm' option (rBe108b8f1).
  • Updated install_deps.sh's ffmpeg, boost, oiio and osl versions (rBea2c24f1, rBeada698c, rBc7ea7e4c).
  • Usual i18n weekly update.

• Bug Tracker:
  • BT misc (general check, assign & close work).
  • Fixed #47038 Particles in Particle Edit Mode get added in completely wrong location (D1685, rBaad24468).
  • Fixed #47135 VSE importing sound is one frame longer than video (rB15faab00).
  • Fixed #47138 Page Down key pages up, instead of down, in Overview pane (rB5c69345e).
  • Fixed (unreported) memleak related to PBVH and looptri (rB17eb5b3a).
  • Fixed (unreported) crash when rendering hairs from edit mode (own regression in recent particle edit fix, rB31e69780).

Fixed: 3; Unreported fixes: 2; Closed: 12;

• Next week:
  • Usual BT & patches work…
  • More 'kill OMP' task, and/or...
  • More assets-related work & co.