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

[Thomas Beck]

Thanks for your encouragement Howard, Paulo & Piotr!
I will wait one more day and if no one is complaining I'll add a section to
our release logs.

Many greetings, Thomas


2014-02-23 22:10 GMT+01:00 Piotr Arłukowicz <piotao at inf.ug.edu.pl>:

> Thomas, I've never seen your videos, they are VERY welcomed and valuable
> help for many artists! Thank you!
>
> cheers!
> Piotr
>
>
>
> Piotr Arłukowicz, PhD
> University of Gdańsk, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics
> Division of Artificial Intelligence, Wit Stwosz 57, 80-952 Gdańsk, room 121
> phone: +48585232125, University home page: http://inf.ug.edu.pl/~piotao
> Also: Polish Blender Course: http://polskikursblendera.pl/ [PL]
>
>
> 2014-02-23 22:01 GMT+01:00 Paulo José Amaro <pauloup at gmail.com>:
>
> > 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
> > > >
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