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

Campbell Barton ideasman42 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 24 21:55:15 CET 2014


While this is a good addition, videos can get outdated by changes to
behavior made just before release.

For example expression evaluation for numeric transform input is now
activated with a '=' or '*' key, so now one of the videos shows
outdated info

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pOs_AsaKEQ

Errata/updaets in videos is often resolved with some captions,
explaining the extra info, to save having to remake the entire video,
think it could be done in this case.

On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 1:30 AM, Brecht Van Lommel
<brechtvanlommel at pandora.be> wrote:
> 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
>>> > > >
>>> > > > ------
>>> > > > Plasmasolutions
>>> > > > Design | Development | Training
>>> > > >
>>> > > > Website: Http://www.plasmasolutions.de <
>>> http://www.plasmasolutions.de/
>>> > >
>>> > > > Blog: Http://blog.plasmasolutions.de <
>>> http://blog.plasmasolutions.de/>
>>> > > >
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