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 <ideasma...@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 While this is a good addition, videos can get outdated by changes to 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 outdated info 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 > <brechtvanlom...@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 > > <softw...@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 <pio...@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 <paul...@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.tric...@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 < > >>> > softw...@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/> > >>> > > > > >>> > > > Telefon: 0176 2017 9565 > >>> > > > _______________________________________________ > >>> > > > Bf-committers mailing list > >>> > > > Bf-committers@blender.org > >>> > > > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > >>> > > > > >>> > > _______________________________________________ > >>> > > Bf-committers mailing list > >>> > > Bf-committers@blender.org > >>> > > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > >>> > > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > -- > >>> > Paulo José O. 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