GSoC 2024: Improve Distributed Rendering & Task Execution

Contributing to Blender Summer of Code
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Week 2
June 3 - June 7

During the second week, I made some significant progress on the project, including:

  • A working #1 Deliverable. When the user clicks on the Pause Job button, Flamenco sends the job to pause-requested status, and depending on the specific situation, either waits for active jobs to complete, fails the entire job, or sets the job status to paused. See the following demo:

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  • Had a weekly meeting and specifically talked about interactive rebase, which I could use to flexibly build on top of existing codebase while being able to keep updating the existing codebase

  • Add test cases and make sure original test cases work with the introduction of a new job status

  • More minor edge cases considerations and created a design issue

In the following week, I have some personal stuff planned, but I will:

  • Build on top of what I’ve accomplished and brainstorm ways to implement submitting jobs with paused status (maybe involve upgrading the job compiler? Addon? Custom job type? API changes?)
  • Review the first PR and write more test cases
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