I am the bevel dev in question. I didn't know about bf-funboard. Was the problem discussed there? I am subscribed to it now.
I will get to your requested bevel fix before next year, hopefully for the next release. On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 6:05 PM, Knapp <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 11:26 PM, Tom M <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Knapp <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > >> My whole point is that it would be good as a user to get more feedback > >> about ideas. Do all the devs read funboard?? > > > > Probably most do, but - every dev likely has a 'todo list' that will > > last them for the next couple of years. > > > > So, unless it is something that the dev will prioritize for themselves > > as something more important than their current todo list, it isn't too > > likely to get looked at. > > > > LetterRip > > I am sure you are correct about that, but that also means that a lot > of good ideas get lost in the static and a lot of users end up not > feeling heard. > We also have lost a lot of old good things like automatic color naming > from 2.4. I am sure these small but nice things get lost for about the > same reason. > > I also wanted to point out a problem that I found last month. The > Bevel tool was changed. The dev did some really good work and changed > it so that it worked as most users expected it too. Problem was that > in so doing he broke a really good tutorial and upset a lot of users. > > These users are all waiting for the old way to come back so that they > can get back to doing the great work that bevel used to do for them. > All these users are stuck using 2.64 while they wait. The problem was > that the dev did not even know that these users were upset with the > change. He had no idea until I pointed it out. It is now on his todo > list and not in first place. > > The dev was great about the problem and I know he will get to it. My > fear is that later might mean next year. The problem that needs to be > fixed is this lack of communication between the users and the devs. I > am not sure how to fix this. I do my best to keep my eyes open and > report back here but I don't have that much time. I am open to ideas > about how this can be fixed. > > I hope I am not getting to off the thread topic. > > -- > Douglas E Knapp > > Creative Commons Film Group, Helping people make open source movies > with open source software! > http://douglas.bespin.org/CommonsFilmGroup/phpBB3/index.php > > Massage in Gelsenkirchen-Buer: > http://douglas.bespin.org/tcm/ztab1.htm > Please link to me and trade links with me! > > Open Source Sci-Fi mmoRPG Game project. > http://sf-journey-creations.wikispot.org/Front_Page > http://code.google.com/p/perspectiveproject/ > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
