From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: Documentation videos are being uploaded! Date: Fri, 24 May 2019 15:37:59 +0200 Message-ID: <87zhncdlc8.fsf@elephly.net> References: <87v9y21ewu.fsf@ngyro.com> <87lfyxh93c.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:40381) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hVBxz-0004BM-K0 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 May 2019 05:30:52 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hVBxy-0000mt-L1 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 May 2019 05:30:51 -0400 Received: from sender4-of-o53.zoho.com ([136.143.188.53]:21313) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hVBxy-0000lL-7v for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 May 2019 05:30:50 -0400 In-reply-to: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Laura Lazzati Cc: Guix-devel Laura Lazzati writes: > Having more topics to cover with videos is great! We should need to > change the 3 min constrain, please :P I think the 3 min constrain is necessary to make sure the videos are focussing on the essential. If we find that 3 mins isn=E2=80=99t enough fo= r a topic, then the topic may be segmented into smaller topics. For people like me, watching a video requires a leap of faith: will this be a waste of time? Will it be 3 minutes of introductions that I don=E2=80= =99t need, followed by 2 minutes of shout outs to friends, and end with 2 minutes of variants of =E2=80=9Csmash the subscribe button=E2=80=9D =E2=80= =A6? Will this be a seminar-style talk that I need to pay close attention to? At 3 minutes the cost of a bad or irrelevant video is very small to an interested person. If by 30 seconds the video fails to indicate that it=E2=80=99s going to address what the person is looking for the loss of ti= me is still acceptable. Yes, the same can be said for 3:30min, 4mins, 4:30mins=E2=80=A6 which I thi= nk are valid durations when the topic requires a little more time and cannot reasonably be split into smaller chunks. But let=E2=80=99s try to a= im for 3 minutes. -- Ricardo