Re: [Bf-committers] Blender Developer Sneak Peeks in the release logs (2.70 and beyond)
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Thomas 2014-02-24 21:55 GMT+01:00 Campbell Barton ideasma...@gmail.com: While this is a good addition, videos can get outdated by changes to behavior made just before release.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evaluation for numeric transform input is now activated with a '=' or '*' key, so now one of the videos shows outdated info http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pOs_AsaKEQ Errata/updaets in videos is often resolved with some captions, explaining the extra info, to save having to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
Re: [Bf-committers] Blender Developer Sneak Peeks in the release logs (2.70 and beyond)
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. Amaro ___ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
Re: [Bf-committers] Blender Developer Sneak Peeks in the release logs (2.70 and beyond)
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. Amaro
Re: [Bf-committers] Blender Developer Sneak Peeks in the release logs (2.70 and beyond)
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:
[Bf-committers] Blender Developer Sneak Peeks in the release logs (2.70 and beyond)
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
Re: [Bf-committers] Blender Developer Sneak Peeks in the release logs (2.70 and beyond)
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.dewrote: 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
Re: [Bf-committers] Blender Developer Sneak Peeks in the release logs (2.70 and beyond)
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.comwrote: 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. Amaro ___ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
Re: [Bf-committers] Blender Developer Sneak Peeks in the release logs (2.70 and beyond)
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. Amaro ___ 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
