GSoC 2024: Improve Distributed Rendering & Task Execution

Contributing to Blender Summer of Code
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Week 4
June 17 - June 21

This was quite a productive week - I completed most of the tasks planned for this week, namely:

  • Fixed a few more minor issues in Deliverable #1 and code quality issues and submitted again for re-review.
  • Made original test cases work with the code changes and added a few more.
  • Backend for submitting jobs with an initial status, which involves OpenAPI and job_compiler changes. Job submission was not previously allowed to be assigned an initial status. Flamenco would put everything into a boring queued status.
  • Added a little checkbox in the add-on frontend that says “Submit As Paused”. Sadly it’s not quite functioning for now, but it soon will be.

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  • Weekly meeting that went over implementation details of my second deliverable

Most of the work for the first two deliverables should be completed in just a few more days. I might be out of town next Thursday as it is a national holiday. Perhaps it’s time to look into my next deliverable, distributed rendering! (Hooray! That’s the fun part)

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