[Bf-committers] Blender Developer Sneak Peeks in the release logs (2.70 and beyond)

[Paulo José Amaro]

Thomas, your videos are very exciting! I'm always waiting for what's next!
:-D I think both the release notes and your videos are important, they has
different content and different approach. Both should be presented at
blender.org.


On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Howard Trickey <howard.trickey at gmail.com>wrote:

> I like your videos and think they would help people understand the features
> of the new release as a supplement to the release log, and support linking
> to them off of that page.
>
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Thomas Beck <software at plasmasolutions.de
> >wrote:
>
> > Hi friends,
> >
> > In short
> > ----------------------
> > Today I'd like to propose smth.: To add a section to our release logs
> with
> > the sneak peek videos for the 2.70 series that I released once a week for
> > every Blender release.
> >
> > You can see the playlist for the current version here (every new version
> > gets a new playlist)
> > http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfceNesfWvLUCsnw1DR2Oup8hFw5z6SB2
> >
> > The longer story
> > ----------------------
> > My name is Thomas Beck, I'm the head of a small studio called
> > Plasmasolutions (therefore the nick) here in Germany. Many of you know me
> > at least from the #bcon13, from IRC and as a #b3d dev.
> >
> > I'm teaching, using and hacking in Blender a lot and am pretty frequent
> in
> > touch with the user base. While talking with users I often heard that
> they
> > don't know many of the new features of our releases and that they feel
> like
> > they were taken by surprise when we changed something suddenly and
> > important for them (but for us maybe not) - they are mostly not reading
> the
> > ML or discussing with us on developer.blender.org.
> >
> > So I created a series of videos that show our current development
> progress
> > every week, give some insight into the development and create some
> interest
> > in new features - and I have to say: The comments are overwhelming
> positive
> > - users feel more as if they were "part of the development" (I know that
> > they actually are, but they don't felt like that) now and that they could
> > get a feeling for new features now early.
> > Apart from that I'd like to give a bit of shine to the hardworking devs
> > that are often forgotten outside the dev universe - so I credit as much
> as
> > I can ;)
> >
> > Reading through the comments on yt and blenderartists, many are asking to
> > make that the standard way of a release log and that we (devs) should put
> > those sneak peek videos on the www.blender.org page and on the release
> > notes (maybe as a new features section in companion with cool Blend files
> > that represent the features).
> >
> > I absolutely don't think that this should become the standard way of
> > release logging - I for myself really enjoy reading (and writing) release
> > logs and have a non-videoish way to look up key combinations and ideas
> that
> > led to the development of a specific feature! But people are lazy and I
> > think we could help them by adding those vids to the logs and maybe the
> > website ;)
> >
> > Ton finds the videos cool and supposed I ask you guys here...so what's
> your
> > opinion about this? Btw.: Bastien is already using a few to light up his
> > dev work.
> >
> > Many greetings ... and go Blender go!
> > Thomas
> >
> > ------
> > Plasmasolutions
> > Design | Development | Training
> >
> > Website: Http://www.plasmasolutions.de <http://www.plasmasolutions.de/>
> > Blog: Http://blog.plasmasolutions.de <http://blog.plasmasolutions.de/>
> >
> > Telefon: 0176 2017 9565
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Paulo José O. Amaro