Projects.blender.org upgrade report
Projects.blender.org is the hub for Blender developers – it features projects (duh!), bug tracking and browseable SVN repositories. The current software is *OLD*, slow and awkward. Nathan Letwory is preparing a long due overhaul.
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.
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This is great news. I’ve always wondered about why you couldn’t search bugs. I’m sure this will help reduce duplicates.
Very nice. Keep it up. And as you mentioned, a significant improvement over the original.
Awesome! =D
Nice! Why not “upgrade” to git instead of svn?
really good message :-).
I’ll publish this video for the day of the cyber-environment in our database. it’s so intruction for People. thank’s
I’m happy that Nathan will upgrade to a more open system.
Hi,
I complained about this for several times, so big hooray for these good news!
Thanks from a plain user eager to help a little more to blender development.
Raimon
I always wondered why I could not search for a bugs I find. This should cut down on th number of duplicate bug reporting, and I like the graph, real time number of open bugs! This will be nice. Keep up the good work. Sounds like you have a lot on your plate (in Blender and at home with a baby)!.
Yahooo… no more downloading csv files and opening in excel to find bugs:)
The current, old site has searches disabled because a search never returns from the database. As I mention in the screencast, both upgrading to FusionForge 5.0.1 and doing some cleaning of the database make searching work like a snap again.
This is wonderful and looks much more useful, than the old site. :) Thanks Nathan for the effort!
Any link to the video? I would like to watch the video without flash.
youtube, vimeo, and others do support WebM and other formats. It would be nice with a direct link.
Direct link to the youtube page for people with no flash:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkaMmfLFUcw
Works well with WebM.