[Bf-committers] Compositor branch

[Lukas Tönne]

+1, i will be there

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Jeroen Bakker <j.bakker at atmind.nl> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> It took a while, but we finally got a branch that is stable enough to
> start migrating. Issue is related to cleaning up pthread. Currently I
> added Blender internal workers back. it is slower, but doesn't have the
> tendency to crash every second or so :) This is a temporarily solution
> as I really want the original pthread solution in place for thread
> handling. For the time being this also means that OpenCL is disabled,
> due to the openCL device selection was also included in the pthread
> solution.
>
> Lukas did some great work on nodegroups and fixing some in the
> data-structure of nodes related to the deprecation of node stacks values.
>
> I would like to propose to meet on Tuesday 20:00 Amsterdam time to
> explain the compositor internals and node migrations. We meet at
> blendercoders and see if we need a new channel or not.
>
> your local time of this event:
> http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Tile+explanation&iso=20111220T20&p1=16&ah=2
>
> Jeroen Bakker
> - At Mind -
>
>
> On 1-12-2011 9:11, j.bakker at atmind.nl wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> There is a branch available for the compositor node migration. During the
>> creation of this branch we found some memory issue in the new compositor
>> system, so it ain't stable. Not sure why as it worked fine for months.
>>
>> another task that needs to be done is to make the branch compile with a MS
>> compiler. The issue concerns the different meaning if the key-word const by
>> a MS compiler.
>>
>> The next people have contacted to help out with the migration.
>> Team
>>   - Sergey Sharybin
>>   - Dalai Felinto
>>   - Pete Larabell
>>   - Lukas Tönne
>>   - Thomas Dinges
>>   - David (erwin94)
>>
>> branch - https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-blender/branches/tile/
>> doc about migrating nodes -
>> http://ocl.atmind.nl/doku.php?id=documentation:migrating_compositor_node
>> (do not mind the mistake in the image)
>>
>> And some doc's about the internals of the system.
>>
>> create operation doc - http://ocl.atmind.nl/doc/d5/d80/execution.html
>> execution doc - http://ocl.atmind.nl/doc/dc/d83/executing.html
>>
>> Next steps:
>>   - 'Close' the gitorious branch as svn.blender.org will be used (need to
>> contact some graphicall.org builders)
>>   - Check-out the branch and see if there are some issues.
>>   - Solve the stability issues and compiler issues.
>>   - Make list of nodes that needs to be migrated and assign the team to it.
>> (blender wiki?)
>>
>> Did I miss something?
>>
>> Now start tiling :P
>>
>> Jeroen Bakker
>>   - At Mind -
>>
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