[Bf-committers] Blender developers meeting notes - September 20, 2015

[Knapp]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Sergey Sharybin <sergey.vfx at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Campbell, it was mainly a concern from me about how RC is presented. The
> thing is, once you go to the Download page you'll have RC suggested for
> download by default without really mentioning to artists what exactly this
> means and whether they're safe to use RC for their work or they'd better go
> to a previous stable release page.
>

Speaking as an artist, I have a few ideas about what I download/use and it
is based on what I must do. I have 3 basic modes of work.

If I am working for someone and must get it done then I want something
stable and bug free with no surprises.
Stable, for me this is often the second edition of the release or at least
one that has been out for a few weeks and is proven to work.

Bleeding Edge, release candidate or new releases.
If I am playing with my own stuff then I am happy to use something that
might have a bug or too but is mostly worry free and has all the cool new
stuff.

Testing release or dailys.
If I am testing or wanting to play with the newest features, even seeing
before all the normals, a sneak preview, then I would be ok with lots of
bugs and finding out how to reproduce them.


-- 
Douglas E Knapp, MSAOM, LAc.