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 [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
