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Projects.blender.org upgrade report

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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.

Nathan writes:

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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Bart Veldhuizen

I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Head of Community at Sketchfab.

13 Comments

  1. 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

  2. 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)!.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

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