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 <[email protected]>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 > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
