Comments on: Blender Development Metrics http://www.blendernation.com/2006/10/04/blender-development-metrics/ Fresh Blender News, Every Day Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:47:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Hans Lambermont http://www.blendernation.com/2006/10/04/blender-development-metrics/#comment-64027 Hans Lambermont Thu, 01 Mar 2007 19:26:19 +0000 http://www.blendernation.com/2006/10/04/blender-development-metrics/#comment-64027 Hi there, The last posting of LetterRip pretty much sums it all up. When I started at NaN in 2000 I was surprised there was no source code repository at all. The sources were copied manually from a system to the next (tar ball, ftp, no shared NFS) and hacked upon until blender worked on that platform too, and so on to the next platform. So I set up a CVS repository, and convinced Ton to actually use it too ;-) Then I spent a lot of time into the build system, I rewrote the makefiles completely and set it up such that the source tree could be used via NFS on all (8 ? at the time) platforms while compiling simultaneously on all of them, and for each developer. Later I added a tinderbox system and added automated nightly release-ready packages. Then we went broke for the second time :( and I prepared the source tree to go open source (dual license), which had to be done in a new repository (politics). I now do little more on Blender than maintaining the FreeBSD port. H_xNaN (Hans) Hi there,

The last posting of LetterRip pretty much sums it all up.
When I started at NaN in 2000 I was surprised there was no source code repository at all. The sources were copied manually from a system to the next (tar ball, ftp, no shared NFS) and hacked upon until blender worked on that platform too, and so on to the next platform. So I set up a CVS repository, and convinced Ton to actually use it too ;-) Then I spent a lot of time into the build system, I rewrote the makefiles completely and set it up such that the source tree could be used via NFS on all (8 ? at the time) platforms while compiling simultaneously on all of them, and for each developer. Later I added a tinderbox system and added automated nightly release-ready packages. Then we went broke for the second time :( and I prepared the source tree to go open source (dual license), which had to be done in a new repository (politics).
I now do little more on Blender than maintaining the FreeBSD port.

H_xNaN (Hans)

]]> By: foradil http://www.blendernation.com/2006/10/04/blender-development-metrics/#comment-47349 foradil Sat, 03 Feb 2007 13:31:03 +0000 http://www.blendernation.com/2006/10/04/blender-development-metrics/#comment-47349 <strong>foradil</strong> news foradil

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]]> By: LetterRip http://www.blendernation.com/2006/10/04/blender-development-metrics/#comment-12159 LetterRip Thu, 05 Oct 2006 17:35:16 +0000 http://www.blendernation.com/2006/10/04/blender-development-metrics/#comment-12159 rcas, Hans (Hans Lambermont) is the original creator of Blenders makefiles I believe, as others note the big bump is from his initial commiting of everything to CVS. Asside from an occasional bug fixes i don't believe he has committed much. LetterRip rcas,

Hans (Hans Lambermont) is the original creator of Blenders makefiles I believe, as others note the big bump is from his initial commiting of everything to CVS. Asside from an occasional bug fixes i don't believe he has committed much.

LetterRip

]]> By: rcas http://www.blendernation.com/2006/10/04/blender-development-metrics/#comment-12144 rcas Thu, 05 Oct 2006 11:40:13 +0000 http://www.blendernation.com/2006/10/04/blender-development-metrics/#comment-12144 @laurens: It might be that, I considered that option, but I was hoping that someone who knew Hans could elucidate me, thanks. It does make sense in a way. @LetterRip: That's good to know. @laurens: It might be that, I considered that option, but I was hoping that someone who knew Hans could elucidate me, thanks. It does make sense in a way.

@LetterRip: That's good to know.

]]> By: LetterRip http://www.blendernation.com/2006/10/04/blender-development-metrics/#comment-12132 LetterRip Thu, 05 Oct 2006 09:51:10 +0000 http://www.blendernation.com/2006/10/04/blender-development-metrics/#comment-12132 "Some source code may be covered by the Artistic license, which is incompatible with the GNU General Public License (GPL)." Doing a quick search - mt19937int.c - they isn't actually used anymore was only used in the NaN days - it was for the keygen algorithm it is mentioned in key_internal.h also should probably be removed but should not really be a problem LetterRip "Some source code may be covered by the Artistic license, which is incompatible with the GNU General Public License (GPL)."

Doing a quick search - mt19937int.c - they isn't actually used anymore was only used in the NaN days - it was for the keygen algorithm it is mentioned in key_internal.h also

should probably be removed but should not really be a problem

LetterRip

]]> By: LetterRip http://www.blendernation.com/2006/10/04/blender-development-metrics/#comment-12129 LetterRip Thu, 05 Oct 2006 09:37:22 +0000 http://www.blendernation.com/2006/10/04/blender-development-metrics/#comment-12129 Wim, the active developers stat is quite misleading. For Openoffice and Firefox most of the active developers contributions over the recent time period were quite minor. GCC has truely active 'active developers'. Also they seem to have done some errors, ie they show gimp as abandoned but it has had reasonable activity in recent months. LetterRip Wim,

the active developers stat is quite misleading. For Openoffice and Firefox most of the active developers contributions over the recent time period were quite minor. GCC has truely active 'active developers'.

Also they seem to have done some errors, ie they show gimp as abandoned but it has had reasonable activity in recent months.

LetterRip

]]> By: laurens http://www.blendernation.com/2006/10/04/blender-development-metrics/#comment-12120 laurens Thu, 05 Oct 2006 07:23:43 +0000 http://www.blendernation.com/2006/10/04/blender-development-metrics/#comment-12120 @rcas: from the "activity" graph you can see that Hans only did something in 2002. Hans's "code contribution" goes all the way to 2006, because that code he committed in 2002 is still part of the current version of Blender. @rcas: from the "activity" graph you can see that Hans only did something in 2002. Hans's "code contribution" goes all the way to 2006, because that code he committed in 2002 is still part of the current version of Blender.

]]> By: rcas http://www.blendernation.com/2006/10/04/blender-development-metrics/#comment-12093 rcas Wed, 04 Oct 2006 23:02:31 +0000 http://www.blendernation.com/2006/10/04/blender-development-metrics/#comment-12093 @brecht && UncleZiev: That might be right, but it extends all the way to 2006, so it might be a problem with Ohloh crawler !? @brecht && UncleZiev: That might be right, but it extends all the way to 2006, so it might be a problem with Ohloh crawler !?

]]> By: simhar http://www.blendernation.com/2006/10/04/blender-development-metrics/#comment-12088 simhar Wed, 04 Oct 2006 22:24:40 +0000 http://www.blendernation.com/2006/10/04/blender-development-metrics/#comment-12088 do i see right? - it had cost more than 13 mio $, if it were commercial? ((-: do i see right? - it had cost more than 13 mio $, if it were commercial? ((-:

]]> By: Wim http://www.blendernation.com/2006/10/04/blender-development-metrics/#comment-12087 Wim Wed, 04 Oct 2006 22:20:15 +0000 http://www.blendernation.com/2006/10/04/blender-development-metrics/#comment-12087 if only we could "borrow" the 120 developers from OpenOffice and the 42 developers from Firefox for 3 months, now that would be a boost! :-D I really appreciate all the work done by developers on Blender! Big thanks to all Blender developers! if only we could "borrow" the 120 developers from OpenOffice and the 42 developers from Firefox for 3 months, now that would be a boost! :-D
I really appreciate all the work done by developers on Blender! Big thanks to all Blender developers!

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