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

[Brecht Van Lommel]

I think these would be a great addition to the release notes, this is
fine with me.


On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Thomas Beck
<software at plasmasolutions.de> wrote:
> 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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