[Soc-2014-dev] Weekly Report #05 - Viewport FX III

[Jason Wilkins]

I agree this is going poorly.

First, I'd like to lay out what I plan to do in order to turn this around.
 I'm going to put in at least 12 hours a day until I have my work from the
previous years in a form that can be merged into master.  This will start
on Tuesday after I've returned from my trip.  I'll be on IRC the entire
time I'm working if anybody wants to talk to me.

We need to review the GHOST refactor I submitted last week.  I have not
gotten any feedback on that.  I've written more code based on that for OSX,
but I'm hesitant to continue with Linux if there are changes the basic
design that need to be made.

Secondly, if you would indulge me, I'd like to explain the reason for this
weeks problems.  I did not say anything because it is personal and due to
my slow start I was feeling like I had ran out of excuses and just needed
to get the work done without sounding like I was making a lot of excuses.
 I'm probably more frustrated than anybody.  If I fail at GSoC, who cares,
it is just money, but I really want this project to succeed.

That said,

My grandmother had a stroke and has been hospitalized.  I made a trip in
order to see her.  I was afraid it might be my last chance.  In my mind I
was imagining you guys shaking your heads and sighing if I told you this so
I just made up my mind to get as much work done as I could.

I thought I'd be able to work just as well, but I was wrong.  I brought my
MacBook thinking I could at least work on the changes to GHOST for OSX, but
I'm not really good at developing on the Mac.  I ended up not getting much
done.

Bottom line?  I'm going home and I'm going to get this work done as quickly
as I can.  If I fail GSoC, fine, I probably deserve it.  I still plan on
finishing this up in one form or another.






On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 9:36 AM, Thomas Dinges <blender at dingto.org> wrote:

>  Hi Jason,
> I agree with Antony here, it's really time for results. :)
>
> I am quite unhappy with the way these projects went, after 2 1/2 GSoCs, it
> should be more than reasonable to deliver something that can be merged into
> master.
> Commits, and also a better and more often communication in IRC is
> something I don't really see either.
>
> If it would be up to me, I would not pass you for this midterm.
>
> Best regards,
> Thomas
>
> Am 21.06.2014 18:14, schrieb Antony Riakiotakis:
>
>  Hi Jason,
>
>  It would be good to have, by midterm a mergeable part of the branch in
> master. Also I would personally really like to see commits more often here.
> It's been at least 5 days since the last commit.
>
>
> On 21 June 2014 12:07, Jason Wilkins <jason.a.wilkins at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> This week:
>>
>>  * OSX Cocoa GL context - GHOST refactor for OSX.  Wrote a
>> GHOST_ContextCGL.mm for Macs
>>
>>  * New GPU module - Copying all of the new code in the
>> source/blender/gpu module in soc-2013-viewport_fx, but in a way that does
>> not require extensive changes to the rest of Blender.  This will allow me
>> to start converting individual editors and other modules to use the new
>> code one at a time while allowing old and new code to work side by side.
>>
>>  Next week:  Going to start the process of converting individual modules
>> so that they do not use deprecated functions.  The goal is to get almost
>> everything done, as in getting most code from soc-2013-viewport_fx ported
>> cleanly.
>>
>>  I've been out of town this week for personal reasons and will be
>> traveling again to return home on Monday.  Looking forward to being able to
>> work at the office again.
>>
>>
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