We could consider adding a new splash at the start of the release cycle, instead of at the end. It makes some sense for a specific Blender version to always have the same splash.
On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 5:29 PM Dalai Felinto <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Antonio, > > What you propose is not really solving the problem. To have a new > splashscreen from 2.81 and still use the 2.80 splashscreen for 2.82 > (master) would be even more strange in my opinion. > > In a way what we have now is no different than having a stable Blender with > a splash, and master with the same one. Which is how we did for ages, > without any major complication. > > So initially the plan is to change the splash only when we enter bcon5. You > do see a different alpha/beta version in the splashscreen, and that will > have to suffice for now. > > All that said, I actually believe that the true reason to change the splash > at the very last moment is because there is a lot of expectations in regard > to that. So it is nice to align the hype of the splash reveal with the > release of a new version of Blender. > > Regards, > Dalai > > -- > blendernetwork.org/dalai-felinto > www.dalaifelinto.com > > > Em sex, 11 de out de 2019 às 10:44, antonioya blend <[email protected]> > escreveu: > > > Hi all, > > > > Until now, when we had a version, the splash was changed at the end when > > the release was made. With the new way of working, the version is changed > > at the beginning and appears in the splash, and we follow the development > > in the master branch. The release of the previous one has its own branch > > (blender-v2.81-release). > > > > If we decide that master is the new version (in this case 2.82), the > > logical thing would be to change the splash at the same time that the > > version change is made, so the developing version would have a different > > splash. Now it is very strange to have a different version in the splash, > > but with the same image from the previous version. Perhaps that splash > > could be the definitive of 2.82 or something more generic like the one we > > used during the development of 2.80. > > > > This is just an idea that I wanted to share with you to see the different > > opinions. Anyway, if you think it is not necessary, forget it. > > > > Regards, > > Antonio Vazquez > > _______________________________________________ > > Bf-committers mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > > > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
