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

Tue Feb 25 15:49:27 CET 2014

Hi Campbell,

that's right - and done actively... When I see that too much has changed I
even create a new video to address the changes (as I've made with the last
one [#9] on the value input topic). Will add an annotation to the mentioned
video to reflect that too.

Greetings, Thomas

2014-02-24 21:55 GMT+01:00 Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com>:

> While this is a good addition, videos can get outdated by changes to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 outdated info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
> >>> > > >
> >>> > > > ------
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> >>> > > >
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> >>> http://www.plasmasolutions.de/
> >>> > >
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> >>> http://blog.plasmasolutions.de/>
> >>> > > >
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